A Good Thing

A few thoughts on marriage, a couple of years into my my own. Spoiler alert: I like being married.

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The Smokey John Diaries

What if the Smoke Monster from LOST season 6 was really a boy-crazy pre-teen girl?

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The Shadow of Death

I wrote this reflection on Psalm 23 in the aftermath of a midnight panic attack.

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About This Site

I’m a writer, a musi­cian and a can­di­date for min­istry in the United Methodist Church. I live and work in Knoxville, Tennessee, very near the Smoky Mountains. Generally speak­ing, this web­site is about lib­eral arts, cul­ture and cur­rent events, not nec­es­sar­ily in that order.

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From The Blog

Interviews with Interesting People: Cara Ballard

Ms. Cara Ballard is a writer, fash­ion­ista and incred­i­bly sassy tweet-​smith. In addi­tion to being a fash­ion maven, Cara is also a pop cul­ture diva and Pete Yorn aficionado.

by on October 11, 2011 in Interview

The Shadow of Death

For most Christians, Psalm 23 is one of those things that is just part of your vocab­u­lary. Like “Our Father” or “Glory Be,” the words of this Psalm are more or less sec­ond nature.

by on September 27, 2011 in Essays

Steven

While peo­ple I should have loved enough to help suf­fered, I was hav­ing too good a time to notice.

by on July 28, 2011 in Essays

A Good Thing

In a mar­riage, you begin to under­stand your partner’s true self. You see the per­son they’re long­ing to be.

by on June 16, 2011 in Essays

‘A whole lot of God’

Over the course of nine years and thou­sands of per­sonal inter­views, Macel Ely came to know the lives and sto­ries of the Appalachian moun­tain people.

by on June 6, 2011 in Interview

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