My top ten books I read in 2024, in descending order, David Letterman-style.

The songs I listened to obsessively, the artists I fell in love with, and the albums I had on repeat in 2024. Let me tell you everything I love about these songs, and listen to them on my Spotify playlist!

If you could talk to the embodiment of Truth, what would you ask? What if Tomorrow wasn’t something to fear, but was more like a familiar friend who welcomes you in with a warm embrace? Has there ever been a day when the sun didn’t rise, or was there ever a year when new life did not continue to come forth? Maybe it’s not only healthier to try to cultivate a more positive imagination of the future, but maybe it’s more reasonable as well (at least in some ways)?

This blog post has everything: names like Gander Lander and Turkey Lurkey, transcriptions in alto clef, my advice for writing in 5/8 time signature, the word “wouldst” multiple times, and some sage advice to not be afraid to stand up to anyone who is “acting sus”. A masterpiece of the written word, indeed.

My album, Earthly, is one year old. I want to take a moment to celebrate it — not because I want to be self-congratulatory, but because this album means so much to me.

How a detective novel, Sara Groves, and American democracy inspired me to write the song, “City of Glass”, and what does it have to do with Henny Penny, and the SUV I inherited from my dad?

You’re just a normal, anxious millennial… who grew up alongside the internet as though it were your peer. You had a carefree childhood and now you’re an anxious mess whilst raising your own children. Is it because you’re insane, because this is just what adulthood is like, or because the internet has made everyone an anxious wreck? Nobody knows, but don’t you miss hope, hmm?

Annihilation anxiety, catastrophizing the closing of a big box store, and not being K-Love appropriate… writing “End of the World” got me into the mind of a chicken, and helped me to process some feelings that live deep inside my gut.

When piles of snow, weekly activities, and ideologies hover over you like a falling sky - and when two friends + David Brooks communicate God’s will for your next musical project - you write a song about it. And then a whole album.

My album “Earthly” was originally going to be titled “Holy Saturday”. Find out why, and why I changed the name.

My main takeaways from the songwriting workshop at Art House North I attended last month.

My five favorite fictions books I read in 2023.

I wrote 28 songs last month! Here’s what I learned, what challenges I faced, and what I have to show for it.

A behind the scenes look at my song, “We’re Gonna Be Alright”.

What if following Christ is something that can happen here on earth, in the land of the living? What if it doesn’t require us to reject everything about ourselves that is merely mortal? What if spirituality isn’t something that only exists in the clouds, but also exists in the dirt? What if God hasn’t rejected our human weakness and frailty, but instead, says that we should lean into them in order to find him?

So many albums, so few release shows…

I am trying to learn what it looks like to follow Jesus and still be a human-sized person.

Holy crap that got real existential for a song that has such a peppy harmonica solo.

“I Know Better” is not a statement of arrogance. It’s a statement of hope.

My dad’s birthday was May 10th, and he died on May 16th, 2021. This is me processing; this is what grief looks like two years later.