This is my NYTimes “Recommended for You” section. It gets me, y’know?
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Where have I been?
God has blessed me with some writing opportunities that have
been pretty great.
Juicy Ecumenism: I
am interning for the Institute on Religion &
Democracy this summer and it’s been a total blast. I get to write a lot and
have been linked on Real Clear Religion (I have an author page!),
First Things, Crisis Magazine, and Touchstone, places I would read almost daily in college.
Mind Over Media: Some
friends from church started a Patheos blog to discuss Jesus and books and film,
three things I love. My first post on Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety is here.
Writing is funny. Now that I have
an audience (albeit very small) writer’s block (which, in my life, can
sometimes be a euphemism for laziness) is more rampant. It amazes me how, even
in things so small as seeing my name in pixels, God has been merciful to me in
revealing my sin so I can repent of it. The first time an article I wrote
appeared in RCR, I spent a good portion of my lunch hour praying over my
temptation to pride and its timid cousin, fear of man. Even just this small
taste of “success” is enough to think much of myself.
To fight these temptations, I
desire to make a habit of meditating on God’s character. Instead of minimizing
these good gifts, I remember the Source. I think I am wise? It is only because
Wisdom himself has given himself to me. Beautiful? Because Beauty has created
me. I serve a good God from whom every good and perfect gift comes. So I will,
relying on his grace, behold his
glory – the glory of the one and only – and, because the veil is torn, be
transformed from one degree of glory to another.
I hope to blog here again soon. I’ve
been carrying a little black notebook around to scribble down ideas. I used to
make copious “crazy person” jokes about a friend who adopted this practice.
Hanwell resident, heal thyself.
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