Author’s Note My coworker, Isaac, encouraged me to enter a flash fiction contest last month. I wrote this story called “Today, I Pull My Life Together.” Fittingly, I woke up in the middle of the night and submitted it an hour past the deadline. Oops. This story is part fiction and part nonfiction. It expresses…
A Tour Through the Quiet Questions of a Sunday Morning “God, I think I want to know you,” I prayed in my car on a Sunday morning, as I started a long commute to a new church. I have been a Christian for about eight years, but if I’m honest, I don’t always feel like…
On June 1, I started my first real-adult-salaried-full-time-post-college job-job as a social media coordinator for Crossway. What a blessing! God opened the door to work at the same publisher that has helped me understand the gospel, dive into the Bible, and know and love him more. My role is to help Crossway bless and serve…
These are the stories of three people who embraced radical anti-government conspiracy theories, but then later they saw they were wrong: Brent Lee, Jeran Campanella, and Jules Diamond. What led them into conspiracy theories? What led them out? How did their communities respond? I created this video as my final project for ENGL 470: Rhetorics…
My energy was drained. The week felt long. “Senioritis” was hitting hard. senioritis: a supposed affliction of students in their final year of high school or college, characterized by a decline in motivation or performance.* — Oxford Dictionary *To any potential employers who are reading this: Fear not! My case of senioritis is not affecting…
You have to be careful when you sit alone in a public space… If you are not approached by a homeless woman or a Mormon missionary, you might be approached by an audio journalist! I was coming out of a breakout session at Cross Con with an hour to kill before dinner, so I found…
This summer, I had the huge privilege to collaborate with the digital marketing team at Tyndale House Publishers to create content that would promote the publisher’s brand, backlist titles, and frontlist titles. I was trusted to take the lead on two key campaigns for October: “Fall into Fiction,” a sale promoting all Tyndale’s fiction titles…
In May, I wrote the blog post, “Is Godliness Active or Passive?” and intentionally concluded without a definitive answer, posing a question and providing my readers with what I hoped would be good food for thought. There’s a tension between what is a quiet spirit and what is complacency. There’s also a tension between what…
I found myself arriving at a Christian writers conference called Write to Publish on the heels of a small aspirational existential crisis. Just a few days prior, I had written to a friend: ——— I looked up the definition of “success” and Google said, “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.” I guess that’s true….
I picked up the Confessions of St. Augustine purely because it feels great to pretend that I had a classical education. I like it when I have a book in my hands on a plane flight, and the older woman praises me for not being on my phone like “all those young people these days.”…