• Getting past just appearances • [2 MIN READ] When my new colleague arrived at the summer conference (SuCo) for my new organization, Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO), Jon was wearing an Orlando Half-marathon 2024 running shirt. That got us talking immediately, but only briefly as we worked on getting into our respective rooms. The … More Discovered
• Desiring faithfulness • [2 MIN READ] Background Being able to craft language for my own use has been a part of my life for virtually its entirety. Sometimes I can successfully turn a phrase in the moment. Other times I have to sit on a concept for longer. During that sitting period, I’m working … More A Catechism of Salvation
• And so I did. Right then. • [1½ MIN READ] Erdem was in a pinch. He needed a ride to New York City and Wife and I could provide one. A philosophy undergrad from Turkey fresh off of a work/travel opportunity in the US, he was thrilled to learn I’d been an academic librarian. … More I’m Going to Pray for You
• An Anchorage version • [2½ MIN READ] A community-service trip, like a mission project, might not conventionally feature a fixture like a foodfest, at least not one I was to design. One like that would prioritize conversation. This is a truth that people who spend time with me might soon discover; however, my annual … More Consumption and Conversation
• More inattentive than I dared imagine • [2 MIN READ] A recent organizational conference I attended was inordinately full of moments of ditziness that amounted to mostly just annoyance: managing to get into the wrong dorm room for host-college housing, continuing a run down the street and entirely forgetting to turn over to the … More Putting on the Ditz*
• The matter of picking your races • [1½ MIN READ] While in Alaska for my annual service trip, I had my occasional opportunity to represent the Growlers at the Copper Valley 5K/10K Fun Run. Seeing as it’s my 9th year in an area where I’ve been the regular from Philly, I’m able to greet … More A Singular Success (#314: 2025’07’23’W)
• Through running and GGR • [2 MIN READ] I don’t imagine I’m the only Growler who can testify to the catalytic role of running or the GGR club and crew in my life. Regarding the former, running entered my mid-life when it was time to develop myself physically a little: Midlife Crisis*. I could … More Personal Development (#300: 2025’03’19’W)
• Not me for a change • [<1 MIN READ] So Spouse insists on parking in the next aisle of the lot so that the car can get a little shade which necessitates an additional 50’ of walking. Fine. I grouse about her being compulsive. Fine? But what does it mean when the song on … More Parking Lot Compulsion
• A noble heritage • [1 MIN READ] (Acts 16-17 was my YouVersion app Bible reading for today.) ACT 17:10-11 (ESV): “The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received … More Being Berean
• Literally • [1½ MIN READ] Way back in high school I decided to initiate the discipline of Bible reading in 1 year. It was good! Less than 10 minutes a day. I did it 2 more times through college. ‘Okay, that’s enough,’ I thought. ENOUGH?! Feels kind of insane, really, to say it was … More A Biblical Discipline
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