Here’s to My Mom
A few days ago my mom mentioned she wanted to read Pattie Mallette’s book, “Nowhere But Up: the Story of Justin Bieber’s Mom.” Mother’s Day was coming up, and yesterday I was in town, so I went and bought a copy. You guys should know something about me. I’m a terrible gift-giver. I only remember [...]
Radical Faith: A Response to Christianity Today
My friend Sam posted this article on my wall last weekend, and I couldn’t pass up the chance to write a response. Written by Matthew Lee Anderson, it was the cover feature for the magazine Christianity Today in March. Titled “Here Come the Radicals!” the story talks about names like David Platt, Francis Chan, Shane [...]
The Writing Struggle
I feel so behind. Something in me feels a sense of satisfaction and guilt when I put my writing before other things. School, for instance. But writing on my blog sends me this message of “yes. I made it one more day of achieving my goal.” I don’t worry about readers too much. I’d like [...]
My Beliefs on Hell
For anyone who doesn’t believe in the spiritual realm, this article is going to sound completely whacked. So read on if you wish, but my goal here is to challenge Christians to think about what they believe. If you believe in Jesus and what he said, hell is real. What does that mean for how [...]
Why I Told My Friend to be an Atheist
I won’t tell you who my friend is because many of you know her, and she doesn’t need any more harm. I was heartbroken, honestly. Not because my friend came to tell me she’d become an atheist. I’d been inviting her to the Christian group I was leading for weeks. I wouldn’t have bugged her [...]
10 Reasons to stop hating Justin Bieber
Today’s blog post is a YouTube video. Click the image above to view it, or click here.
Losing the Plot
It’s been a while since I blogged about Doctor Who, mostly because I stopped watching it when the last season started. I didn’t write about why I gave up on the show because this guy did a good job expressing my feelings (language, nerdiness, and spoiler warning on that article). But it’s time to write [...]
The spiritual value of therapy
My brother Noah was reading his speech ballots when I realized how underrated therapy is. I helped Noah and Tabitha, who are 14 and 13, choose a dramatic piece to act out for speech competition this year. It’s a scene from William P. Young’s The Shack, and a large number of their judges have given [...]
Goodreads
After over a year of Facebook requests, I joined Goodreads. It’s my favorite social network of all the sites I use, because it encourages me to get away from the computer. I have 569 books marked as read on Goodreads. This is because I was already tracking my reading with spreadsheets and documents before I [...]