An Open and Relational Theologian
Author / Educator
Helping people flourish.
Where Stories Meet Spirit: Transforming Lives Through Creative Writing, Theology, and the Healing Power of Narrative.
Essayist
Michael is featured in the following books.
Director / Actor
Michael is the director of Unexpected Places. Michael has been acting from a very young age starting with the stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where he played a sad, rabid squirrel. The sad rabies were improvised.
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Death Becomes Us: Grief, Companioning, and Open and Relational Theology in Tracy Tucker’s Can We Talk About Death?
Abstract: Contemporary pastoral responses to grief often rely upon theological language shaped by deterministic assumptions, cure-oriented frameworks, or emotionally reductive platitudes that may intensify spiritual fragmentation during experiences of death and loss. In Can We Talk About Death?: An Open and Relational Vision, hospice chaplain Tracy Tucker draws upon pastoral experience, grief care, and a…
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In the beginning…I’m never sure where or when seeds for ideas were planted. My ideas feel like a Banyan tree, everything is connected.
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