Slow week ahead

Joie and I are out of town all this week, so I’ve got some older stuff scheduled to repost as well as some of the typical posts, but it’ll be a bit slower this week.

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Some house-cleaning

A few updates on things at Notes…

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A decade on

Ten years ago today my parents caught me looking at porn online. That night, for the first time, a true sense of guilt and wrong-doing broke through my Pharisaical, ice-choked heart and I saw Jesus as something precious and necessary to my life. The story since then has been more winding, unexpected, and joyful than [...]

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Some engagement photos

Recently Joie and I were blessed to spend part of a day with our friend Rebecca Tredway. Rebecca is a fantastic photographer and did our engagement photos for us. Some of them are now posted over at Rebecca’s blog so head on over there if you’d like to see them.

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Introducing some new authors

So Notes is about to change a little by becoming more of a regularly collaborative project. We have five new occasional writers and a few more may be coming as well. The five who have agreed to write occasionally are:

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Knocking down some of the cobwebs – Updating Notes…

Something strange happened to me somewhere between being the resident evangelical columnist for a student newspaper at a state university (while also majoring in English) and being one of the resident “liberal, sort of conservative” guys at Mere Orthodoxy. And I’m still trying to make sense of what that is.

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Lack of posting

Apologies for it being dark around here the last couple of days. I started a new job this week and things have been a bit hectic, leaving little time for my own writing. I’m hoping to do some writing on Friday, so I’d ideally have things to post for the weekend and early next week, [...]

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Tweaking the design

Last week I got an e-mail from a friend in which he said that – and I quote – “You pay a lot of attention to the content of your blog. Therefore, it comes as a surprise that you have paid little attention to its form, namely the standard header for the Mistylook theme. Why [...]

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An Update on the Small Place

Last May was the busiest month of Notes from a Small Place’s short history. In fact, the number of hits increased by 50%. (Let me take the opportunity to thank Lincoln’s finest one more time. They gave me a great story, increased blog traffic, and Derek Webb came by the blog and commented. Not bad [...]

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Changing things up a bit

Just an fyi for all three of you that read: I realized about two months in, after the “hey-I’m-blogging-again-and-am-actually-enjoying-it!” high wore off, that publishing at the pace I was is not something I’m able or interested in doing. Three posts a week is just crazy and besides, if the blog is about smallness and localism, [...]

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