Cycles of Newness

One of my favorite themes in the early church is Saint Ignatius theme of the silence of God. It has shown to be a recurring theme since I have arrived at seminary. Every question I have had since I have come here that wasn’t answered right out has been answered…

These past 7 or 8 years I have been writing code as a software developer and I have been teaching code for four semesters at ISU. Coding is very much “figuring things out” and over the years the cycle of code and business projects has become very obvious to me.…

But made himself nothing, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. Philippians 2:7 KJV (my favorite verse) I struggle with writing, finding the best word or metaphor for a thought swimming through my head. I like topics with depth and…

This past week I wrote out a bit of my life’s path and the bumps along the way. Writing it out showed me some recurring themes of moments of weakness and failure (some completely my fault, some completely out of my hands) that lead to disappointment and sadness. When I…

One night, … mentally and spiritually exhausted, St. Silouan wanted simply to bow before Christ in His holy icon, but a terrible demon stood in his way, and he heard from God in his heart, “The proud always suffer from demons.” When he asked God how to defeat pride he…

  I think it was my junior year in high school. I was completely smitten/mildly fond of a certain blonde classmate of mine, I’ll call her Ann. Being a small school, we had quite a few classes in common and she was a riot on the band bus, mutual interests…

So I have to tell you this story of a couple days ago. Driving home from Montana, I decided to take a detour. Driving down I-15 and it was packed in the north lane, miles of cars because of an accident. It gave me pause, thankful I was not backed…