I've spent the past couple of days reading Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography. I've cared about good design and typography for years. But I couldn't actually do it myself. Butterick's book helped changed that. It lives up to its name—it&
Writings
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Someone recently asked me about my calling to ministry and whether I had any advice for people thinking about seminary. Here's what I told them with a few additional thoughts. When I Wanted to Be Famous I'm one of those really fortunate people in that I
There's nothing quite like emailing your church bookkeeper and saying, "Hey, pay me less." You'd think writing an email instructing someone to reduce your would feel dramatic, maybe even noble. It doesn't. It feels like admitting defeat. Like the financial version of
💡This is Day/Week 9 of my devotional series on "20 Verses to Rebuild Your Theology." I'm particularly proud of this one, so I'm sending it out to all my readers today. However, if you want access to the rest of the series, you
Part 2: Some Ground Rules We've established who God is—love itself, characterized by patience, kindness, gentleness, and all the fruits of the Spirit. We've seen that Jesus is the clearest revelation of divine character, that fear has no place in authentic faith, and that truth
Seeing the Lamb's victory, recognizing its literary artistry, holding its temporal tensions, grounding it in Scripture, and receiving its pastoral comfort
Kids and Family * Audrey is doing her Musical Theater class at Imagination Stage. They're working on a Wicked production. * Wesley actually let us sign him up for a basketball team. We'll see what happens when it actually starts in November, but he seems maybe to be