Global Variables

I’m launching an app for saving web articles to read later.

Today I’m publishing the 1.0 release of my first Eleventy plugin, Uncharted.

I picked up my phone this morning to see an email notification with the subject: “Security Alert: Worldwide Caution”—a message from the US State Department for citizens abroad.

I started this draft at 5:30 in the morning on Monday, waiting to board a flight in Delhi.

I definitely didn’t plan this, but as I’m finally catching a few minutes to write, I find myself once again eleven days from an international move.

I just came across this draft from September, in which I not only wrote a post about some recreational coding/data analysis, but made a bunch of updates to my website to better handle code and tables.

A couple weeks ago I read two posts by Dr.

When I wrote back in January I was just embarking on a 365.

I’ve started what I guess could be described as a parenting blog.

It’s been a couple years since I’ve written about a yearly theme, but I wanted to post something about this year’s.

Today I’m taking the wraps off a side project I started almost three years ago.

For the last few years on our podcast, my friend Elias and I have chosen and discussed yearly themes, inspired by another podcast.

I’ve just finished the move I wrote about,[1] so it seems appropriate to officially announce the move of my blog as well, though this new site has been live for a while now.

Eleven days.

I wrote the first draft of this on Sunday, September 11.

You may have heard of the explosion that rocked Lahore, Pakistan, yesterday.

I’ve started a new blog.

You may or may not have heard of the controversy that’s erupted around Michael and Lisa Gungor, the Christian musicians who’ve caused an uproar by saying that they don’t believe in a six-day creation or a literal Adam and Eve.

So this post is a bit different from what I usually write here, but I’m feeling the need to get on a soapbox about something I’m seeing a lot of these days.

Tuesday is my fullest day of the week this semester, followed closely by Thursday.

Remember how I wrote that I was going to blog every week…almost two weeks ago?

So Lent began today.

A couple weeks ago we started a series at NLCF on Galatians.

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here.

So I’ve started writing for NLCF’s website.

A couple of well-known verses have been on my mind since my post, “Setting things straight”: What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions?

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about God, it’s that he likes to throw monkey wrenches in our plans, and substitute his own.

On Wednesday night, right before going to bed, I posted a link to an article titled “There.

Right before going to bed I posted a link to an article I had just read after a friend posted it on Facebook.

When I started this blog I said I wasn’t going to limit it to any specific topic, but that anything I think is worth sharing is fair game.

When I last posted I was nearing the end of The Two Towers.

I’m listening to the soundtrack of The Two Towers right now.

I need to write a short essay for a scholarship application.

This is grace.

Several weeks back I wrote a post titled, “I’ve got this.”

“Reblogging” is something that I haven’t done here yet, that I’ve decided to experiment with—linking on my blog to other great blog posts I read around the web.

I’ve been reading a book this week.

I’m sitting on the back porch of a cabin at a retreat center twenty minutes outside of Blacksburg.

I work two shifts a week at West End, one of the dining centers on campus.

I write this with my legs stretched out in front of me, computer in my lap, and a cold pack on my knee, having just popped some ibuprofen.

There is a bridge on the Virginia Tech campus.

Today finds me thinking about home.

Over the last many months I’ve been looking a lot into the subject I just wrote about.

[Disclaimer: if you’re looking for something clean and family-friendly, this is not it.

A pretty awesome thought hit me tonight.

When I posted on Saturday I said I had a couple ideas in mind for new posts.

In my first post I mentioned a couple things that had come to me that would’ve made good blog posts—the problem being I didn’t have a blog.

Today I’m thinking about the prophets.

Earlier this week I wrote about two themes in my life right now—surrender and abiding.

Just how close can I get, Lord, to my surrender Without losing all control?