Author: norman
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Moses and the Rock
Ever since I started working at my current job, I have enjoyed a regular series of questions (at least weekly) from my desk neighbor. These questions, whether they are deeply theological or practical, always invite curiosity. Here’s my first attempt in translating one into a post. Maybe I’ll write about them more often in the…
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reading Reading Genesis
In passing office catchup/conversation I learned that some coworkers and members from a local church were going to read Reading Genesis, by Marylinne Robinson. It’s a book I’ve had on the shelf for a while but never got to because there were always other things in my reading queue. But after learning that they were…
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book: the girls who went away
I recently finished reading The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler. I was put onto it through a passing anecdote in a podcast; I can’t remember which podcast and I can’t even search it because I don’t think it was the main topic of the podcast episode, but I was intrigued so I pick…
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feeding the hype machine
In a few weeks, I’m going to be leading worship songs at a regional conference for a para-church college ministry with a music team. It’s not a gig I was expecting, especially since I’m double the age of many of the attendees that will be attending. This team and I grew up in a different…
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1 / completely known & fully loved.
I’ve been working on a little bit of writing; maybe it’ll be a book, maybe it won’t. But at the very least they will live as long-form blog posts. Below you’ll find a link to all other posts/chapters in this series/book. It’ll self-populate as I write and release them. faith worth passing on you are…
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preface / faith worth passing on
In the past year (2024) I’ve slowly been writing some reflection on life and faith but I’ve kept it in a side document. Now that it’s the end of the year, I’m realizing that this endeavor will take longer to write than I thought so I’m gonna slowly release what I have so far as…