How does a Christian process voting this year? Or really any election year? The question is weighing heavily on many faithful Christians’ hearts and minds as November 3rd approaches. There are many, many good articles out there regarding voting and the 2020 election. I don’t claim my ideas as novel…

Reflections on the minor themes of Harry Potter, as I read through the series again, now, in my thirties: The focus on outsiders and bullying. (See: Malfoy-Potter, Snape-Potter, Slytherin-Ron, Luna Lovegood’s oddities, uncouth Neville Longbottom, Herimone’s smarts, Dudley-Potter, house elves, etc.) Positive and negative roles of mystery in life. (Sirius Black’s nature, Snape’s nature, Dumbledore in general, the scar, the prophecy, slow unfolding of who the Potter’s were, Ginny…

Christopher Nolan creates brilliant films within a notably godless universe. His films have the realism of humanity coupled with the extraordinariness of characters or circumstances featuring moments which the laws of nature or science bent (i.e his Batman films, Inception, Interstellar, etc.) However, Dunkirk, feels much more precious and powerful…

I am on a $20 ride from Louisville to ATL on a Mega-Bus. We sat under a bridge in a tough area of Louisville while the bus was supposedly rambling towards us. Another spot between another spot onwards. The hour felt long as the sun rose higher. First thing that…

***This my take on the much written about Jeremiah 29 as a missional manifesto, enjoy, and love your feedback. — Christ calls dead people and makes them alive. Christ creates the church universal (all believers) this way and these believers ideally form into smaller churches local to their geographic — relational proximity. The church universal is the body of Christian believers heading towards a heavenly home with Christ but they…

Be like Kevin Durant and an Invitation to Join Me this Summer-Fall — I love reading. And I hold the conviction that I must never stop growing. So every summer I take a class. A class I mostly self-design by pillaging resources from the internet, friends, and libraries to combine with self study and I usually add in some learning partners along the…

To learn how and why I am writing this small commentary on Romans, see this former post. Now for Romans 1:29–32: 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God…

To learn how and why I am writing this small commentary on Romans, see this former post. Now for Romans 1:26–28: 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise…

To learn how and why I am writing this small commentary on Romans, see this former post. Now for Romans 1:24–25: 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about…