It's dangerous to create alone

The Blog
Short Essays
Unreality and Inhumanity on The Internet
Short Essays

That we trust ourselves to make accurate snap judgements about events we didn’t experience and have mediated to us through the viral groupthink of social media platforms is… laughable?

Short Essays
Session 1: Tales from the Montreal Loop
Role-playing Games
Session 1: Tales from the Montreal Loop
Role-playing Games

Tales from the 1980s that never was. A recap of a session of Tales from The Loop.

Role-playing Games
Video games have an image problem in the church
Featured Elsewhere, Pop Culture
Video games have an image problem in the church
Featured Elsewhere, Pop Culture

Originally Published on The Official Blog of Power to Change: Students

Featured Elsewhere, Pop Culture
Stranger Longings: Belonging and Adoption in Stranger Things 2
Featured Elsewhere
Stranger Longings: Belonging and Adoption in Stranger Things 2
Featured Elsewhere

Originally published at Christ and Pop Culture

Relationships aren’t simply choices to be made; they’re conversations to be lived.

Featured Elsewhere
Fantasy & Motivation
Featured Elsewhere
Fantasy & Motivation
Featured Elsewhere

Originally published in The Curator

Instead of escaping into the story, the story had passed into me and overwhelmed my doubts.

Featured Elsewhere
The Blog
Learning to Love and Loving to Learn: "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego"
Netflix, Education, Love
Learning to Love and Loving to Learn: "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego"
Netflix, Education, Love

The show is infectiously curious, positive, and educational — it’s everything TV for kids should be, while still managing to be great fun.

Netflix, Education, Love
The Fellowship of The Ring: Lothlórien
Wonder, Rest, FotR
The Fellowship of The Ring: Lothlórien
Wonder, Rest, FotR

It’s no surprise then that Tolkien’s elves are identified by a solemn sadness. With their lifetimes of disappointments, losses, and pain, the elves cultivate the virtues of rest by necessity — being alive is exhausting.

Wonder, Rest, FotR
Session 2: Summer Break & Killer Birds
Tales from the Loop, Recap
Session 2: Summer Break & Killer Birds
Tales from the Loop, Recap

Last time, on Tales from the Montreal Loop… The Sud-Ouest trio of Steve, Michel, and Billy encountered the curious tweets and sharp beaks of some very strange birds.

Tales from the Loop, Recap
Journalism, The Internet, Viral Videos
Unreality and Inhumanity on The Internet
Journalism, The Internet, Viral Videos

That we trust ourselves to make accurate snap judgements about events we didn’t experience and have mediated to us through the viral groupthink of social media platforms is… laughable?

Journalism, The Internet, Viral Videos
Stories
The Universe vs. The Universal
Stories

The universe is a big place where a lot of little things happen.

Stories
It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
'Good Words' for January 2019
Stories, Technology, Masculinity
'Good Words' for January 2019
Stories, Technology, Masculinity

Stuff you should read.

Stories, Technology, Masculinity
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
Grief
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
Grief

“You will have to do without light for a while: I am rather shaken.”

Grief
Surviving the future, what Attention is, and Facebook
Technology, Attention, Facebook
Surviving the future, what Attention is, and Facebook
Technology, Attention, Facebook

Stuff you should read.

Technology, Attention, Facebook
Session 1: Tales from the Montreal Loop
Tales from the Loop
Session 1: Tales from the Montreal Loop
Tales from the Loop

Tales from the 1980s that never was. A recap of a session of Tales from The Loop.

Tales from the Loop
 
 

Reading Middle-earth

I've taken up the burden of blogging through every chapter of The Lord of the Rings in hope of deepening my own and others' appreciation for J.R.R. Tolkien tale of hobbits, hope, failure, and consolation.

The Blog
The Fellowship of The Ring: Lothlórien
Wonder, Rest, FotR
The Fellowship of The Ring: Lothlórien
Wonder, Rest, FotR

It’s no surprise then that Tolkien’s elves are identified by a solemn sadness. With their lifetimes of disappointments, losses, and pain, the elves cultivate the virtues of rest by necessity — being alive is exhausting.

Wonder, Rest, FotR
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
Grief
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
Grief

“You will have to do without light for a while: I am rather shaken.”

Grief
The Fellowship of The Ring: A Journey In The Dark
Fear, Faith
The Fellowship of The Ring: A Journey In The Dark
Fear, Faith

“This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party.”

Fear, Faith
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Ring Goes South
Duty, Freedom
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Ring Goes South
Duty, Freedom

“We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on.”

Duty, Freedom
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Council of Elrond
Quotations, Power, Evil, Hope
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Council of Elrond
Quotations, Power, Evil, Hope

50 pages of the most beautiful, pure, plotless exposition in literature…since Chapter 2: The Shadow of the Past!

Quotations, Power, Evil, Hope
The Fellowship of the Ring: Many Meetings
Hospitality, Rest
The Fellowship of the Ring: Many Meetings
Hospitality, Rest

There is no contradiction in Rivendell; the wise sing songs, feasts are necessary, and merrymaking is serious business.

Hospitality, Rest
Reading Middle-earth — Chapter 12: Flight to the Ford
Joy, Wounds, The Fall
Reading Middle-earth — Chapter 12: Flight to the Ford
Joy, Wounds, The Fall

This is why I’m convinced the greatest purpose of fantasy is to reintroduce us to a universe that sings, a cosmos.

Joy, Wounds, The Fall
Reading Middle-earth — Chapter 11: A Knife In The Dark
Courage
Reading Middle-earth — Chapter 11: A Knife In The Dark
Courage

“Is there no escape then?” said Frodo, looking round wildly. “If I move I shall be seen and hunted! If I stay, I shall draw them to me!”

Courage
Reading Middle-earth — Chapter 10: Strider
Trust
Reading Middle-earth — Chapter 10: Strider
Trust

“A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”

–Aragorn

Trust