Charting courses through life's deepest waters

In the vast ocean of modern storytelling, MONK TALES charts a unique course. Like ancient mariners who navigated by the stars, we believe stories can guide us through life's deepest waters. Our journey creates bridges between timeless truths and contemporary challenges, between personal transformation and social change.

What if the hero's journey isn't just a pattern we invented to tell stories, but rather our human attempt to understand something far more profound—God's own journey to reclaim His creation?

This divine hero's journey unfolds in three great acts:

• Love: The initial creation, where God pours Himself into making a world and creatures capable of genuine relationship
• Mercy: The patient pursuit of that creation after it turns away, offering countless chances for return
• Justice: The final fulfillment of God's mission to restore creation, whether through willing participation or divine intervention

This isn't just ancient history or future prophecy—it's happening right now. We're living in the tension between Mercy and Justice, where the final chapters are being written by our choices and responses.

MONK TALES creates content that transforms. Through our books, screenplays, music analysis, and daily reflections, we craft narratives that illuminate paths through life's complexities while building empathy and inspiring action. We believe the stories that move us most deeply are those that connect personal journey to universal purpose.

Every creative act, whether conscious or not, taps into this divine pattern. When artists write songs, paint pictures, or tell stories, they're drawing from a well deeper than they know. They're experiencing echoes of God's own creative journey. This explains why we can find profound spiritual resonance in unexpected places—when Bob Dylan writes about finding shelter from a storm, he's unknowingly touching the eternal pattern of divine refuge. When Lady Gaga insists that some things can't be understood until they're experienced, she's brushing against the truth about our relationship with the divine.

We explore this vast story through five interwoven paths, each illuminating different aspects of the divine journey:

1. Books

Our books reveal the divine patterns woven throughout existence, each one illuminating different aspects of the greatest story ever told:

LOVE, MERCY & JUSTICE series traces God's hero's journey to bring His beloved creation home:

• LOVE: What if the peace you're searching for can only be found by becoming who God loved you into being? Discover how God pursues each soul with relentless love, inviting us to shed our false selves and embrace our authentic identity.
• MERCY: We Are The Apocalyptic People - Understanding our role in history's pivotal moment
• JUSTICE: The Unfolding Story of Salvation - Seeing how all threads weave into God's grand design

THE MIRROR PARADOX: Voyaging Beyond Life's Illusions - What if everything you believe about finding peace, strength, and freedom is backwards? Eleven transformative paradoxes shatter life's distorting reflections, revealing your True Self waiting on the other side of the glass.

THE SEARCHER: Permission Granted - What if hunting for Rembrandt's stolen masterpiece was the only way to calm the storm raging inside you? Meet Jax - ex-Marine turned Boston bartender, haunted by a shattered mission and obsessed with America's greatest unsolved art heist.

NAVIGATE DEEPER WATERS - Finding peace in life's storms and treasures in challenging waters (Summer, 2025)

Exploring music's deeper currents

In parallel, we're discovering how this divine story echoes through contemporary music. Through our signature series "The Hidden Meaning in...", we dive beneath the surface of popular music to explore the spiritual currents flowing through the songs that move us most. Whether artists realize it or not, they're tapping into the same eternal wellspring of human longing—the desire for love, purpose, redemption, and belonging that echoes God's own heart for His people.

• Our general series finds sacred echoes in unexpected places
• Special deep dives into Bob Dylan's prophetic poetry and Lady Gaga's journey from pain to purpose
• Each analysis reveals how artists unknowingly tap into eternal patterns

Charting cinema's hidden depths

Through our signature series "The Hidden Story in...", we explore beloved films with fresh eyes, revealing the sacred narratives woven throughout their plots, characters, and themes. Using carefully curated musical pairings, we illuminate the spiritual dimensions that transform entertainment into revelation. Whether filmmakers realize it or not, they're drawing from the same eternal wellspring of story—God's Hero's Journey of calling His loved ones home through adventure, sacrifice, and transformation.

Our original screenplays chart new waters, navigating contemporary challenges through compelling narratives—from Boston's streets to Alaska's wilderness, from Mosul's alleys to London's historic lanes. Each story builds empathy while illuminating eternal truths, available for option or purchase.

Where cold beer meets warm wisdom

Our nautical studio creates a unique harbor for daily reflections and brief but deep dives into life's profound waters. Like its namesake prophet, we recognize that every journey has its storms and every storm its purpose. Here, we create space for fellow travelers to rest, reflect, and chart their course forward—a relaxed space where everyday moments meet eternal truths and conversations navigate from personal growth to cosmic purpose.  

Regular explorations charting courses through current events, cultural movements, and personal transformation, discovering how divine patterns unfold in historical events, prophecies, and everyday life.

Like ancient mariners who learned to read the stars, we're learning to read the patterns of divine movement in everything around us. Each song becomes a star to navigate by, each story a current that might carry us deeper into understanding.

We're all sailing the same vast ocean of divine purpose. Some of us paddle in the shallows of first discovery, while others venture into deeper waters where mercy and justice meet. The waves that move us—whether gentle ripples of insight or transformative breakers of revelation—all emerge from the same divine source.

Like waves reshaping a coastline, transformation moves in patterns of advance and retreat. Some waves gently touch the feet of those wading in shallow waters. Others draw us into deeper currents of understanding. Each wave emerges from the same vast ocean of meaning, inviting us to venture further.

Our approach:

• Bridges ancient wisdom with modern challenges
• Transforms individual stories into catalysts for change
• Creates spaces for both reflection and connection
• Builds empathy while inspiring action

Every piece of content we create—whether it's a blog post about finding peace in life's storms, a Beneath the Music analysis, or a Beer At Jonah's adventure—is like a message in a bottle. We cast these messages into the waters hoping they'll reach someone who needs them.

But here's the thing: You know your friends, family, and colleagues better than we ever could. You know their struggles, their questions, their search for meaning. You know when they might be ready for a particular message. That's where you come in—no pressure, no promotion, just authentic sharing that might help someone navigate their journey.

We're living in a time when the tide of Mercy is still flowing, but Justice approaches like a distant storm on the horizon. As apocalyptic people, we're called to be both navigators and harbor lights—helping others read the stars, understand the tides, and find their way home while there's still time.

This is why MONK TALES exists—to help chart these waters. Whether through our books exploring Love's deep currents, our music analyses finding divine echoes in culture's tide pools, or our reflections marking the changing spiritual seasons, we're mapping the ways God's hero's journey shapes the waters we all sail.

MONK TALES invites you to journey beyond the shallows. Whether through our books, screenplays, music analysis, or daily reflections, each offering charts a course through life's complexity toward something greater. Every story becomes a star to navigate by, every creative expression a current that might carry us deeper.

Welcome aboard.

MONK