Featured Life Liturgy
For the Loss of Religion
For all who struggle with the loss of faith, or the deconstruction of their faith. For those who struggle to love and support those deconstructing– Our Father knows, cares, and is there with you.
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Getting Jesus Wrong: Giving Up Spiritual Vitamins and Checklist Christianity
I couldn’t read Matt Johnson’s book without associating him with my time at Mars Hill church in Seattle, Washington. Although it’s been several years since our church fell apart due to sinful leadership, I’m a slow processor and many of my feelings remain unresolved...
Four Questions to Ask Before Diving Into a Crunchy Trend
My wife and I tend to be pretty healthy people. With my background in healthcare, and her background in being analytical, we’ve spent a lot of time examining health trends and learning about the ways that food interacts with our bodies. When our daughter Evie started...
Spotify is (almost) Saving Humanity
I'm listening to classical music. Vivaldi's Four Seasons to be exact. It's beautiful, engaging music. Rising, cresting, falling; painting pictures in my mind as I work. Somewhere between the swirling of the fall leaves and the start of the winter snow, I'm...
I Love Mars Hill, and I left the Church
My wife and I are in the process of changing churches and it's not because they've been involved with a sexual abuse scandal, or even because their theology is off- It's because Mars Hill, inadvertently promotes an institutional culture of silence over their failures,...
How Christian Legalism Creates a Culture of Sexual Abuse
“Jesus doesn’t need your reputation! Keeping things in the dark and allowing souls to be destroyed by abuse, that shames the Gospel. Jesus is all about transparency.” - Boz Tchividjian When I started writing this article, I thought I would be writing about sexual...
5 Tips for Young Leaders & Why They Don’t Matter
I love business, and I love starting companies. When I was 16, I started a site called, Cross-Eyed Blog and Webzine. As time went on, that site merged into Latitude821, (based around Romans 8:21) and we made a strong run with a lot of great articles and even a small...
Create. Disciple. Design.
I’ve always viewed myself as a creator, long before that was ever my job description. Now, I’m hired by people to create brands that birth new companies, and concepts that birth new businesses. When I came up with the name of this blog, “creation” was something that happened when I wrote, but I think the goal here has always been to use creativity to influence, influence to connect, and connection to build new communities. Join me, you’re welcome here!
I’m an entrepreneur, creative director and business owner at Typeset Design and Block & Gray. I’m married to my amazing wife, Hannah, and I’m also a dad to two beautiful kids, Evelyn and Lewis. I love Jesus, my kiddo, creativity, words, and people!
