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Spinraza In A Time Of Coronavirus
2020-05-20 23:41
I made a questionable decision today. I know there are some people who will not understand why I decided to proceed with getting my fourth dose of Spinraza in the midst of the coronavirus pa… Read More
Grateful For A Short Spinraza Break
2020-02-18 12:18
I have tried to be as open and transparent as I can be about how my Spinraza injections have been progressing. I had my third injection yesterday, and we have now hit an important milestone… Read More
2019-11-11 11:00
Hi folks, just a quick note that I am going to be taking a few weeks off. I will be back with you shortly, but I am in my final semester of PhD coursework, and a lot of deadlines seem to all… Read More
2019-11-04 11:00
I am writing this article for you because freedom of the press exists. If it did not exist, then someone would have the ability to restrict what I am about to write for you.I may not say any… Read More
2019-10-28 10:00
Unless you live in a place with no access to any social media or even mainstream media outlets, you have probably heard that Kanye West released an album this week. However, it was not just… Read More
2019-10-21 10:00
You might’ve heard about the new research that came out from the Pew Forum about Christianity in America. I would obviously recommend reading the article before you read my thoughts be… Read More
2019-10-07 10:00
I’ve got to be honest with you guys. This has been a week with a lot of interesting things going on. I don’t necessarily want to go into detail with you all, but I think it will… Read More
2019-09-30 10:00
There was an article in The Atlantic this past week entitled, “Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why?” written by Derek Thompson. I would recommend that you read the… Read More
2019-09-23 10:00
As people who are interested in apologetics, there is a line that you are going to hear at some point. You might hear this from even your good-natured, well-meaning Christian friend. They ar… Read More
2019-09-16 10:00
Our world has experienced a serious decline in community. Isolation is not good for the human mind or soul, but more and more people seem to be suffering from a lack of friendship and compan… Read More
2019-09-02 10:00
Facebook reminded me either was debating what I wanted to write that on August 31, 2019, I attended my first day of college at the University of Vermont. That was 10 years ago, people. I am… Read More
2019-08-26 10:00
Waiting. Honestly, who likes to wait? While there is some type of thrill in the anticipation, at the end of the day, if I know that something great is coming, cue West Side Story, I am prett… Read More
2019-08-12 10:00
“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” The latter part of Matthew 24:12 came up twice in the same day, so I thought that might be interesting to ta… Read More
2019-08-05 10:00
I just heard an advertisement that talked about discovering “my truth.” To me, this seems to be somewhat of a contradiction in terms.Obviously when we talk about something being… Read More
2019-07-29 10:00
Let’s be entirely honest here as we talk together. How good are you at picking up signals from other people? I like to think that I am relatively perceptive at times, but there were ot… Read More
2019-07-22 10:00
My attention was recently turned to an essay written by Dr. Brad East entitled “Against Pop Culture” on Mere Orthodoxy. Before reading any more of what I have written here, pleas… Read More
2019-07-15 10:00
Do you ever get the feeling that some things are simply meant to be? Maybe you don’t exactly know why, or you might not understand how something came to be, but it simply seems right… Read More
2019-07-08 10:00
I know you will not read this post for a few days, but just so you know, I am writing this on Independence Day. I was thinking back to what an exciting time it must’ve been for our Fou… Read More
2019-07-02 01:09
Have you ever really taken a second to consider the improbability that you specifically would be brought into this world? A few friends and I were talking about this just yesterday. There ar… Read More
2019-06-24 10:00
I have now been home from our power soccer national tournament for about a week and to say it has been on my mind is an understatement. After getting over my tiredness and simply the letdown… Read More
2019-06-17 10:00
I am writing this piece on June 11. When you read this, it will be ideally June 17, and I will be in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As most of you know, my team will be playing power soccer, so I don… Read More
2019-06-10 10:00
I am writing this just about a week before my power soccer team departs for the Founders Cup in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We will be competing with teams from around the country, and to say that… Read More
2019-05-27 10:00
I’ve spent the better part of the last week watching power soccer. The Nations Cup has been taking place in Finland, and the top five teams from the European zone will earn the right t… Read More
2019-05-13 10:00
I recently read a movie review for the biopic Tolkien written by my former professor Dr. Michael Ward. I have to admit that when I saw that this movie was going to be released, I was really… Read More
2019-04-29 10:00
There has been a lot of talk on the fear of missing out that has been driven by our social media culture. Essentially, when you see all of your friends doing something really exciting on Fac… Read More
2019-04-08 10:00
Let me touch a sensitive topic here. Let’s talk about the Christian bubble. We all kind of know a little bit about what it looks like. It is a pretty comfortable place. It is a nonthre… Read More
2019-03-25 10:00
I find it fascinating to think about change. Not many of us actually like change if we are entirely honest with ourselves. Some of us are better at dealing with it than others, but it is a l… Read More
Enjoying Your God-Given Freedom
2019-03-04 11:00
I went to a concert last weekend in Springfield, Massachusetts. Casting Crowns headlined the show with Austin French and Zach Williams opening. I love seeing Casting Crowns in concert, and p… Read More
2019-02-25 11:00
The world is a certain way. In fact, the world is a certain way even if I may not understand the way the world is. I have recently been taking a class on mathematical and scientific reasonin… Read More
2019-02-18 11:00
What is a word? At the most fundamental level, it is a collection of sounds or letters that have been put together into a string. We then take that collection of sounds or letters and assign… Read More
2019-02-11 11:00
Dr. Seuss famously wrote, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” Although he apparently never intended this to be any type of pro-life rallying cry, sometimes the trut… Read More
2019-02-04 11:00
I have been thinking a lot about zero-sum games lately. There are a lot of situations where someone has to win and someone has to lose. As a sports lover, I personally like some types of zer… Read More
2019-01-28 11:00
Narnia was a land trapped in a kind of supernatural polar vortex. Because of the dark magic and immense power of the White Witch, the land remained in a perpetual state of winter. However, w… Read More
2019-01-21 11:00
We now know the two teams that are going to be heading to the Super Bowl on February 3. They have been working for the entire season, hoping to put together enough victories to find their wa… Read More
2019-01-14 11:00
Isn’t it funny that we have a tendency to want to shoot the messenger? Someone tells us something that we don’t like, and it automatically becomes that person’s problem. It… Read More
2018-12-10 11:00
Tonight, I am going to have my final live class session of the semester in our interdisciplinary seminar on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. I have handed in both of my research papers, complete… Read More
2018-12-03 11:00
If you have been following along with my writing in the past few weeks about Solzhenitsyn and Havel, you will remember that they were thoroughly convinced that it was important for people to… Read More
2018-11-19 11:00
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a name that may not be familiar to many young people today, but in 1978, he gave an incredibly important speech at Harvard University’s commencement in Russia… Read More
2018-11-12 11:00
When you are a little kid, you are always asked what you’re going to be when you grow up. When you’re in high school, you take a variety of personality tests that sometimes point… Read More
2018-10-29 10:00
It takes courage to live as a Christian in America in the 21st-century. I know that many of you are going to stop reading right now. Christians are not being killed in America like we are in… Read More
2018-10-08 10:00
Because I am in the middle of the semester, it is prime time for beginning to work on some research papers. In our PhD program at Faulkner University, every class is finished with a research… Read More
2018-10-01 10:00
Innovation is a funny thing. We are conditioned to believe that anything that is new must also be improved. I don’t believe it is any coincidence that marketing departments have realiz… Read More
2018-09-24 10:00
Happy belated Hobbit Day! In commemoration of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins’ shared birthday of September 22, Middle-earth lovers from our own world celebrate this most wonderful day. I have… Read More
2018-09-10 10:00
You all know that I have written extensively about the Chronicles of Narnia on this website. They are among my favorite books, and every now and then I listen to the audiobook versions of th… Read More
2018-09-03 10:00
I appreciate people who can explain things simply. I have a hard time doing that. I don’t know if this is a deficiency in my own ability to communicate or if it is because of my worldv… Read More
2018-08-13 10:00
If you ever come visit me in Vermont, we are going to go to Ben & Jerry’s. My family has always done that with everyone who has never been to Vermont before. If it is a nice, summe… Read More
2018-08-06 10:00
I said that I was not going to write about Chesterton for a little while, but I came across a situation a few weeks ago that brought Chesterton back to the forefront of my mind again. I was… Read More
2018-07-16 10:00
I have tried this summer to be very true to the spirit of G.K. Chesterton and have attempted, perhaps highly imperfectly, to look at his work in context. Today, I’m going to be writing… Read More
2018-06-04 10:00
I live in Vermont, and if there is one word that you could use to describe a vast majority of our political environment, it would be progressive. Spurred on by the incredible success of our… Read More
2018-05-21 10:00
In our modern age of social media, you can learn a lot about someone without ever really meeting them. The minute someone accepts my friend request, they can learn some highly personal and c… Read More
2018-05-20 10:00
I started this blog approximately two years ago, and I appreciate all of you who have come along for the ride. It has been a lot of fun, and I think that we have had some really exciting thi… Read More
2018-05-07 10:00
Do you ever feel like you’re having those conversations where you are literally talking past one another? I have had those moments, and I imagine most of you probably have as well. You… Read More
2018-05-04 10:00
I find it interesting that human beings were designed to be in community. From the beginning, God understood that it was not good for man to be alone, so He created woman. Of course, it is n… Read More
2018-05-02 10:00
I think that we run the temptation of becoming far too wrapped up in the here and now. Of course, it is a good thing to stay on top of our current situation and make wise decisions, but as C… Read More
2018-04-20 10:00
Noah ultimately was thankful for God’s provision as the end result of being faithful. At the end of the day, we have been talking about how important it is to remain faithful to God de… Read More
2018-04-18 10:00
As we think about the time of Noah in comparison to the world of today, we have to remember that, despite the fallenness of the world around him, Noah was faithful. God told him to do someth… Read More
2018-04-13 10:00
Finally, when I think about some leadership lessons I have learned from An Unexpected Journal, I have to think about one of my favorite pieces of advice from Confederate general James Longst… Read More

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