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November 24, 2025

What If I Don’t Like My Church’s Music?

When visiting Crossway’s headquarters over the summer, the publishing team and I were chatting about how wonderful God’s timing is. Without necessarily planning to do so, Crossway ended up releasing several resources for musical worship within the same few months including The Sing! Hymnal, Spirit-Filled Singing: Bearing Fruit as We Worship Together, and What If Continue reading

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August 5, 2025

Platforms to Pillars: Trading the Burden of Performance for the Freedom of God’s Presence

I’m in the thick of researching platforms—digital and otherwise. As I do so, it is important to me to frame my research according to a biblical worldview. I do not just want to understand the operating systems behind digital platforms and the motivations behind personal platform building. Rather, I want to understand how platforms can Continue reading

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July 24, 2025

Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

I’ve been working on my dissertation proposal and have decided to focus on Christian writers maintaining spiritual well-being in the digital age. Where better to start than with this acclaimed book on digital wisdom by author, blogger, and editor, Samuel James? About & Review Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age is not Continue reading

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May 23, 2025

The Ideal Journaling Bible

I love my ESV Study Bible, which includes a wealth of contextual information, cross references, and (my favorite) charts. Throughout 2024 and 2025, I’ve also been enjoying the ESV Chronological Bible, which has given me a better understanding of the scope of Scripture. But as an avid annotator, I have struggled with the reality that Continue reading

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May 2, 2025

Scrolling Ourselves to Death

On April 10th of this year, a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, killing everyone on board: a family of five and the pilot. Within minutes, my weather app sent me a notification to alert me of the crash and invited me to “tap to stay informed.” I am not a first responder. I have Continue reading

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