This episode is the second of two parts of my conversation with Dan Saxton. He is on staff at a summer camp in Pennsylvania, is a middle school basketball coach, and sat front row at over 30 Penn State football games when he was in college.

In the second part of our conversation, we discuss the concept of lament in various forms, from his and his wife’s experience with multiple miscarriages and family loss, along with resources and practices that they both found helpful over the past few years and how people can effectively love those in their lives going through miscarriage.

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This episode is the first of two parts of my conversation with Dan Saxton. He is on staff at a summer camp in Pennsylvania, is a middle school basketball coach, and has been to every US state except for North Dakota. Sorry, North Dakota.

In the first part of our conversation, we hear more about his journey from engineering to working at a summer camp, how technology impacts our outlook on life, and also the key differences and common threads that campers and counselors are experiencing now vs. when he first started working at camp.

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This episode is the second of two parts of my conversation with Ethan Magness. He is a pastor in Pennsylvania, loves the story of Les Miserables, and has memorized every single Office episode.

In the second part of our conversation, we discuss potential ramifications of our current cultural moment, common misconceptions about Christian theology, and how the idea of absolution makes both the left and the right upset.

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This episode is the first of two parts of my conversation with Ethan Magness. He is a pastor in Pennsylvania, loves the story of Les Miserables, and used to design tattoos in college.

In the first part of our conversation, we discuss the nature of political and religious discourse in America, deconstruction, and the philosophical ideas that play into them with the common thread of “grace in an age of rage” upending all that we understand about our current environment.

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This episode is the second of two parts of my conversation with Schuyler Kitchin. He is a musician and college ministry leader who just absolutely rocks a moustache.

In the second part of our conversation, we talk about how his faith went through a complete overhaul for the better, enneagram hot takes, and how he thinks people who listen to podcasts are nerds. Sorry.

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This episode is the first of two parts of my conversation with Schuyler Kitchin. He is a musician and college ministry leader who, even though he was born and raised in Maryland, he didn’t start using Old Bay until he moved to Pennsylvania later in life.

In the first part of our conversation, we talk about his unlikely journey into music and how he has learned to process difficult life moments over time.

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This episode is the second of two parts of my conversation with Kim Gendron. She is a good friend of mine from college, is a huge follower of K-pop and K-dramas, and is a Boston sports fan through and through, but we'll forgive her.

In the second part of our conversation, we work to find the difference between liking a culture and engaging with it, discuss her journey to connect with her birth parents, and reflect on our college’s board’s recent stance on shying away from engaging in racial reconciliation conversations.

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This episode is the first of two parts of my conversation with Kim Gendron. She is a good friend of mine from college, is a huge fan of K-pop and K-dramas, and is pursuing her master’s degree in social work.

In the first part of our conversation, in addition to Vine hot takes, we dive into her experience as a Korean-American adoptee and how her perspective on her heritage has changed over time. We also explore how the Christian spaces she grew up in impacted her and how her faith informs how she reflects on who she is and her experiences in those spaces.

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This episode features the third part of my 3-part conversation with Jackson Clemmer. He was my freshman roommate in college and is currently a youth pastor in Tennessee. He’s incredibly wise and thoughtful and has experienced his own share of life obstacles. 

In this episode, we dive deeper into his transition to marriage, the importance of grace in that, and the philosophical basis on how to become the person who truly wants to do the dishes. We also continue our conversations on expectations and friendships that were started in previous episodes. 

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This episode features the second part of my 3-part conversation with Jackson Clemmer. He was my freshman roommate in college and is currently a youth pastor in Tennessee. He’s incredibly wise and thoughtful and has experienced his own share of life obstacles. 

In this episode, Jackson and I discuss how to create lasting, meaningful community as an adult, specifically after growing up with community more or less handed to us through school. We then circle back on how to cope with unmet expectations and how our lives can end up being fuller and richer once we let go of potential realities that we thought we wanted.

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