Meeting I moved to Michigan on December 30th, 2023. I didn’t know anyone, and my mom drove up with me to help me move in. (I’m adult enough to say I still need my mom.) That first Sunday, my mom and I sat in a coffee shop across the street from a big white church. My mom, being a pastor, proposed we just pop in and check it out. Me, being a born sinner, was not interested in checking out a church…
Frederic Edwin Church, “Above the Clouds at Sunrise,” 1849. — Early in college I found out the wife of a foundational Christian couple from my childhood was stepping out on her husband. First, it crushed me. Then, the obvious question: how can I guarantee that it will never be me who steps out on my future wife? Back then, my future wife was imaginary. Just some nice Christian woman I was going to…