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  • Should We Trust the Experts?

    At the beginning of March, we began acquiring newspapers to use for packing materials when we moved. The Wall Street Journal was offering 12 weeks for $12, which is both ridiculous and a reminder of where print news is these days. It is a considerable increase sometime in May, at which point I’ll have to…

  • Why We Can’t Know If We Overreacted (Yet)

    A few disclaimers here at the top. I’m not a doctor. I don’t even play one on TV. I hang out with doctors, but they are predominantly philosophical rather than medicinal. I can’t speak to how SARS-CoV-2 affects your immune system and leads to COVID-19, and in advanced cases, ARDS. I can’t speak to how…

  • Four Long Years

    For months, years really, I’ve been wanting to get back into a regular writing habit. And then it happened… “It” is normal life being cancelled and way more time at home all of a sudden. But, let’s not start there, let’s go back a few years, to roughly this time in 2016. If you’re keeping…

  • Unpacking Passion 2020: The Stage, The Songs, The Spectacle

    Over the past couple of days, I’ve been processing my thoughts from Passion 2020. I gave a general introduction, and then a bit of backstory that explains how I think conferences, retreats, and camps fit into a continual pattern of Christian growth. You don’t need to read either to make sense of what follows but you’ll enjoy it…

  • Unpacking Passion 2020: Sessions 4-6

    Over the past couple of days, I’ve been processing my thoughts from Passion 2020. I gave a general introduction, and then a bit of backstory that explains how I think conferences, retreats, and camps fit into a continual pattern of Christian growth. You don’t need to read either to make sense of what follows but you’ll enjoy it…

  • Unpacking Passion 2020: Sessions 1-3

    Over the past couple of days, I’ve been processing my thoughts from Passion 2020. I gave a general introduction, and then a bit of backstory that explains how I think conferences, retreats, and camps fit into a continual pattern of Christian growth. You don’t need to read either to make sense of what follows as…

  • Unpacking Passion 2020: How Mountaintop Experiences Work

    With all the background from my last post in mind, let’s talk about my actual experiences at Passion Conferences. The first conference was in 1997 in Austin, Texas, and had about 2,000 students. I was not one of them because I was only 13. Also, I probably wouldn’t have been interested because it was not…

  • Unpacking Passion 2020: Introduction and My Backstory

    Earlier this week, we rang in the New Year with 65,000 college students. It was probably the most legit New Year’s Party I’ve been to, mainly because a) I don’t usually party and b) I usually go to bed around 9. But, as you can see here, I think it was probably worth staying up…

  • SHIFT 2019-2020 Starts Tonight @ UCF

    Tonight, we kick off another year of SHIFT at UCF. Since last semester, we have been able to meet in the Student Union on Monday nights. Typically, Monday is one of the more high traffic days on campus, and the Student Union is obviously a great centralized location to have a college Bible study on…

  • Some of My Best Reads from 2018

    I read 125 books in 2018, which is below my average of 150. Part of that is because I actually spent more time doing other things. The other part is that I spent more time in my morning routine reading the Bible. Over the course of the year, I read the entire Bible once, and…