One of the things I love about the concept of taking new adventures is that adventure doesn't always look like wild mountain-climbing or...

My church held our annual missions conference this past weekend, and there were so many things I took away from it. But there was one...

I've been thinking about restlessness lately, I think because I've felt it more than usual. To be honest, I've been feeling it for awhile...

One of my favorite writers, Shuana Niequist, put a small exercise in one of her books that really stuck out to me. Talking about all the...

This week's adventure was without question my favorite so far. I had the privilege of being part of the Passion conference in Houston and...

Last year, I picked up a random book about the history of the English Bible at my favorite secondhand bookstore, mostly because you don’t...

This week I visited Austin for the first time! This is a city that lives by the motto "Keep Austin Weird," so I wasn't quite sure what to...

I hesitated on whether or not to make this post for 2019, but apparently I'm deciding in favor of it. I guess I was just afraid that I'd...

If you read my last post on some of my favorite life-changing books, you'll remember me talking about Love Does, a book about living a...

Some books make you laugh, cry and get your mind into a completely different world. They're like a breath of fresh air that takes you out...

It's already the first day of 2015, but I couldn't not make a post about the amazing year that 2014 was. Yes, it was challenging in a lot...

Christmas has come and gone, and just like that another year is coming to a close. I am still trying to make sense of the last twelve...

This is a little throwback Thursday to a trip I took this summer as part of an internship for my church. My fellow interns and I had the...

It’s been months since internship finished, and yet if I’m honest, I can’t say I’ve taken the time to process it all yet. It was a heck...

A few months ago I got to take my first mission trip to Central America in the beautiful country of Honduras. It was so different from...

I seem to only have time for short posts lately, so here is a short list of things God’s been teaching me lately, and that I really,...

I used to rent a place in Brooklyn with a friend months before I met you. It was advertised as a sixth story apartment with a water view...

This morning I saw four seagulls flying in a row, and they reminded me of you. I could feel the sand beneath my feet again, could taste...

We used to go to an abandoned field on the other side of town, right in front of an old strip mall that hadn’t been occupied in years....

“What was it like?” he says, his voice so low I can barely hear it over the record playing in the corner. “What was what like?”...