• Flags on Sunday

    The Fourth of July, the independence day for the United States, landing on a Sunday this year allows for a unique opportunity for American Christians to evaluate our own personal relationship between both the flag and the cross and make adjustments as necessary. An inescapable reality is that our identities as Christian and our identities…

  • The Miracle of Tin

    The miracle of Easter is not without its hard pill to swallow.

  • Announcement from Team BVV

    Hi all! We just wanted to drop by real quick to let you know that Bryce’s second book Before We All Die, Let’s Have One Last Chat by the Fireside is available for purchase today. You can read it on your Kindle or in its paperback form. To celebrate, we’re giving away the Kindle version…

  • Sneak Peek of One Last Chat

    Please enjoy this free preview of Bryce’s second book, Before We all Die, Let’s Have One Last Chat by the Fireside which will be released tomorrow, January 21st, 2021. E-books are still available for preorder and paperbacks will be available for purchase beginning tomorrow. To keep up to date with Bryce, you can like him…

  • The Rightness of Wrong

    A quarantine writing about how good it is to be wrong.

  • My 5 Best Books of 2020

    2020 gave me a lot of heartbreak and left us all a lot to be desired. However, five books I read this year helped keep me going in spite of it all. I hope these books give you some entertainment in the New Year! And, if you need another recommendation, my second book will be…

  • An Unmerry Hope

    Been a long year, been a long year just kinda hanging on. Been a long year, been a long year thinking the spark was gone. There it is in the light. There it is in the falling white. It finds me. Andrew Ripp I’m feeling thoroughly unmerry. I’m typing from the desk in my motel…

  • Stumbling Blindly Toward The Light

    How we not give into hopelessness?

  • All the Men Die: Halloween (2018) as the Quintessential Modern-Day Horror Movie

    (Spoilers for the 2018 edition of Halloween and Mother!) It’s no secret that I love Halloween (the holiday and the franchise) as well as all things horror. There’s something cathartic about a good horror movie. You have two options with horror, depending on its direction. Like the age-old tragedy genre, you can abandon the protagonist…

  • The Cure for Wellness

    Originally, this was going to serve as an intro to a series on hungering for Emmanuel – seeing God with us in the spaces we find ourselves in. What I’ve realized after the following conversation with a friend, and similar subsequent ones, is that the message I have for these people who approach me with…