This world strips us of our humanity, bit by bit, moment by moment.

Grind culture tells us to hustle. Church trauma tells us to behave. Performance culture tells us to earn our worth. And somewhere along the way, we forget how to breathe, how to feel, how to live.

We Can Stay Human is a storytelling and spiritual formation space for those who are ready to remember.

It’s for the deconstructing Christian who still senses something sacred.

The burned-out leader who once believed their work mattered.

The griever who needs words that don’t feel plastic.

The maker. The misfit. The mystic. The man who longs to be whole.

The woman who’s tired of being too much or not enough.

We explore the movement:

And we do it all through story. Here, we tell the truth. We name the ache. And we practice becoming.

About Me

I’m Joe Burnham … a former pastor turned ritualist, funeral celebrant, and regenerative soul guide. A man whose faith is less about a restrictive religion and more about an all-inclusive spiritual path. I live on the Colorado high plains just outside of Denver where I’m learning to grow food, compost grief, and live like all of this is sacred. My work weaves together poetic theology, earth-based spirituality, and a relentless desire to stay human—through death, through joy, through transformation.

This space is for stories, invitations, and resistance … through breath, ritual, and real talk.


🌀 Subscribe if…

  • You’re tired of shallow answers and ready for real stories

  • You want to explore grief, ritual, and becoming

  • You want spiritual depth without dogma

  • You’re ready to breathe, question, and root down


Till next time,

Stay human.

—Joe

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storyteller | gritty mystic | spiritual misfit | abundance cultivator | cage rattler & key dropper | dad to a teen | aspiring permaculturist | Rev. Dr. by degree | in a world that wants to strip away our humanity, We Can Stay Human