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Blog postI’m excited to announce that my short story “the House” won the May Short Story Contest at the School of Kingdom Writers! You can read the announcement here and they plan to publish the story on their website soon.
Here’s what they had to say about it:
Joe took the theme literally with his sci-fi story, reminiscent at times of Fahrenheit 451. In 3,500 words, Joe created a new near-future world, captured an important element of the human experience, and crafted a fun -
Blog postGuess what happened today? It’s the moment I’ve been working towards for a couple years now.
I’m excited to announce that my short story “The Priest and the Robot” has been included for publication in the Ohio Writer’s Association’s newest anthology, “Outcasts.”
This will be my first publication, so it warrants some kind of party, right?
I’m included alongside a number of amazing Ohio writers, including a few friends I’ve made recently in the Ohio Writer’s monthly work -
Blog postSpace Junk
Word Count: 6636
Synopsis:
On the verge of winning the biggest sale of his career, a space junk broker has to travel to Earth’s orbit to convince an old-man to sign away his rights to his home—an orbiting lab—but when he starts to learn about the history of Earth and the implications of this sale, the broker has to decide whether this sale might ruin his last chance at feeling whole.
Themes: Space travel, self-worth, tea, climate change, justice
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Blog postPhoto from freepik.com In the Name of Ammalee
I’ve just finished the first draft of a new short story. If you’re interested in offering feedback, or getting access to an early version of it, let me know.
Word count: 8000 words
Synopsis:
On the verge of giving up on his faith in the god Ammalee, a young man and his little sister travel back in time 5000 years to escape a dying earth, but when they meet someone they believe to be the original Ammalee, he s -
Blog postLast week was a no good, terrible very bad week. And it started over a month ago. We moved out of the Airbnb we’d been living in while our house was gutted and put back together, and planned to travel 2 and half hours to my parents for the weekend. Any transition like this is hard enough. We were going to see my dad, who was back in the hospital. He’d been dealing with an issue related to diabetes for years now. That morning we moved out of the Airbnb, but our house wasn’t done, an
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Blog postIn 2017, Allyssa and I bought an old house in Franklinton. Over the last couple years, we’ve been trying to fix it up—and after a few small investments and the help of a lot of great people, we’ve made a lot of progress.
Now, we’re looking to refinance and pay someone to finish the work. This means an appraisal (and thus a clean house).
Today feels like a significant step towards where we want to be. It isn’t done, but this is a bit of a rest stop on our home improvement journ -
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Blog postI’m seeing more and more people talk about mental health. With friends struggling with anxiety and depression, a couple colleagues committing suicide, and marriages falling apart around me… we need to talk about mental health.
And I’m seeing people talk about it online and in articles… but I feel most of these shorter posts end with: don’t be ashamed to get help.
Ok. Fine. I’m ready to get help.
That’s where I found myself over a year ago.
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Blog postRecently I was going through some old journals as Allyssa and I de-clutter our house. I found something I wrote, that eventually ended up in a sermon. It got me thinking quite a bit, and so I wanted to share it with you all.
It was a reflection on Acts 14:11-12
When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in their local dialect, “These men are gods in human form!” They decided that Barnabas was the Greek god Zeus and that Paul was Hermes, since he was the chief speaker. -
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Blog postThe day I became a pastor I was not prepared for the unspoken expectations of parishioners. I was a youth pastor at a church for five years before becoming their senior pastor for another three. Even though I knew the congregation, I figured it wise to talk to as many people as possible to get a sense for where we were and what they expected from me. In our introductions, round-table conversations, and casual conversations with people in the church, there was one theme that kept emerging. The
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Blog postBefore Finn’s bedtime, we have a pretty regular routine. We brush his teeth. Sometimes he gets a bath. And then we read some books. Of course, he loves books, especially if we love the books.
I’ve learned this about kids. They will love what you love. If you get really excited about something, the likelihood that they will get excited increases substantially. Of course, it doesn’t always work. But it has a pretty big success rate.
Take for example, Dr. Seuss’ The Foot Book. We
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