• 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…

  • Currents

    Being a human is exhausting.

  • In The Dying, The Rising

    Text, 12:06 AM: “I miss you so much. Are you able to see the same moon that I’m looking at now?” I have been wanting the silence and, in many ways, my desire for it over the past couple months since we last spoke has only deepened. Things feel louder than they ever have been…

  • A Tree Stuck Inside a Fence

    A lament for our world and a space to speak.

  • Mercy Will Not End (Part Two)

    As I look out into the softly falling snow, and see the hundreds of empty church buildings and streets, it’s hard to forget that Easter isn’t quite the same this year. A few weeks ago, when the lockdowns began happening and the once booming metropolis I lived in transformed, overnight, to a small neighborhood, void…

  • Mercy Will Not End (Part One)

    “It’s funny what the drinking games can bring up. From hilarious stories of workplace frustration to anecdotes teeming with regret and shame. It’s a testament to the power of love when a group of friends can sit together in both the heavy and light, the scandalous and the embarrassment. In this way, the drinking adults…