Some of us don’t fit where the fire started.
These are the ones who asked too much, loved too widely, or refused to bow to the easy certainties meant to keep the world tidy and people powerless. Across history and faith, they’ve been labeled heretic, nuisance, troublemaker, threat. Their questions burned hotter than the doctrines meant to tame them.
Scorched Strays is a collection for them — and for anyone who has felt the heat of judgment for daring to think, to wonder, to believe differently. Each poem is an acrostic portrait: of condemned saints, silenced voices, misread mystics, wounded theologians, and the strange grace that survives in the ashes.
Here, the scorched do not disappear.
They stand, spark, and speak.
Welcome to the fire that burns but never consumes.
The Series
New ones drop every Sunday.
🔥 latest current Scorched Stray
- Theotokos’s Trap — an acrostic of paradox and doctrine
- Fully Forsaken, Not So Divine — wrestling with the loss of the human Jesus
- Silenced; Yet All Shall Be Well — the cost of being a theologian of the wrong gender
- Three-In-One Times the Effigy — Servetus and the hunt for the heretic
- shape of a prayer — a concrete poem for the scorched self
- Burned for a Better God — Arminius aflame in a system too small
- A Brand Picked from the Fire — Wesley barred from the church, freed to the field
- Torquemada’s Trepidation — confronting the Church’s long fear of women and the divine feminine.
- Salvation Don’t Slither — exposing the serpentine lie of power disguised as holiness.
- Judgment Against Themselves 🔥 — uncovering how Scripture is twisted into judgment to protect power rather than truth.
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