Support • Picture in a hotel lobby in Jackson, WY (This is how I plan to hike The Grand with Kyle Steen this summer.)

Can you imagine eating snow without the slightest hesitation, without even one cell or synapse wondering if another animal has pissed or bacteria grown on this fluffy free snow cone from heaven? Freedom, man. Freedom.

A Tale of Two Blogs, or, why I keep two blogs.

Finished Reading: The Home of God by Miroslav Volf 📚

The New Jerusalem does not compensate for anything; it is the final form of the true life to be lived in history, whether in affliction or in joy. This story as a whole makes the life of the follower of Christ intelligible.

I love reading anything from Volf. His perspective is always fresh and clarifying. I’m really looking forward to his next book, which comes out next week—especially because anything with an endorsement from Marilynne Robinson is worth reading. (Thanks to my friend Luke for pointing that out!)

Bridger Bowl • Powderiest pow pow day ever

“Does this angle make my nose look big?”

I am a liberal—firmly liberal.

Jonathan Raban, Richard Wilbur, and Christian Wiman—a thought on what was missing in Raban’s Bad Land 📚

“I’ll be waiting right here by the stairs whenever you decide it’s time to go to the dog park.”

Finished Reading: Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman 📚

For I am come a whirlwind of wasted things
and I will ride this tantrum back to God

until my fixed self, my fluorescent self
my grief-nibbling, unbewildered, wall-to-wall self
withers in me like a salted slug