Journal

The loudest thing the tree in the garden says is also the thing most people refuse to sit with.

You've been thanking God for food you haven't tasted yet. That's not what Torah commands. Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:10 puts the blessing after the meal — after the hunger is gone and the provision is real.

The Scholar's Table is now B'Chavruta — named for the Jewish tradition of wrestling text as equals. This is why I built sergiodesoto.com: a permanent home for everything I write across four lanes — faith, family life, religion, and business — because no writer should build on rented land.

Your worth was declared before anyone had a chance to withhold it.

Phoenix, 2015. A backpack, a Bible, and a theology the church forgot.

And I didn't have the decency to feel uncomfortable until later.