Category: Uncategorized

Currently reading: Faith in the Age of AI by Dan Scott 📚

My beautiful wife and best friend, Amber.

Feels different to get 8 full hours of sleep.

Good morning! Country Squire Chesapeake tobacco, Costco coffee, sacred reading.

What a blessing to spend some time with one of my spiritual fathers and founding pastor of Desert Mission Anglican Church, Fr. John Dyson. So thankful for how God has blessed me with his ministry and friendship.

Working on preaching with fewer notes. This morning I took about half of what I usually do with me, and was able to fit it all on a single sheet of paper tucked in my Bible.

NT Wright on the martyrdom of St. Stephen:

In the great Jewish tradition of martyrdom, the dying called down curses on their persecutors; the first Christian martyr followed his Lord in praying for their forgiveness. But forgiveness wasn’t what they wanted (despite the fact that this was what the Temple stood for!); they wanted their worldview left intact. That’s the stuff that stonings are made of. But God has laid in Zion the true corner stone, precious beyond imagining to those who believe.

N. T. Wright, Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year A, (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2001), 63.

Finished 2023: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 📚

Essential ideas for understanding the essentially foundational nature of sleep, written with energy and in some places even poetry.

Finished 2023: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North 📚

Fun and whimsical comic. Great lighthearted reading.

Finished 2023: On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy by Saint Maximus the Confessor 📚

Maximus, helpful and inspiring as always. was gratified to find that his description of the liturgy maps closely to what I participate in weekly as an Anglican Christian.