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This really isn’t the end of The Christian Nerd, though as I wrote about this week, it is the end of a season. I’ve been running The Christian Nerd for six and a half years and at this point I need a little break. I’ve got some other projects to work on, but I planRead more

This will probably be my last #TBT post for a while, so I thought I'd throw it all the way back to the beginning and my very first post at The Christian Nerd. Star Wars is our great modern mythology. Most people probably know more about Luke Skywalker’s struggles against the Empire than they doRead more

I've been going to church my entire life and I have been fairly serious about following Christ since I was 14. In the past 20 years, I have learned that being more committed to Christ means spending more time with Christ. That's obviously not an earth-shattering observation; it's actually rather simple. However, regardless of itsRead more

For six and a half years I never really thought about taking a break from The Christian Nerd. Back in January of 2011 I had no idea that I would write over 1,600 posts and record over 100 episodes of a podcast. To that point, my blogging endeavors had been less than consistent without anyRead more

I saw The Fifth Element five times in the theater. To this day, it is one of my very favorite science fiction movies. When I heard that Luc Besson was returning to the science fiction genre, I was extremely excited. I was looking forward to Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but theRead more

A year and a half ago I wrote a post about packing up all of my stuff. This week I've been unpacking all of my stuff, including my vast collection of HD-DVDs. As a sign of growth, I threw out my HD-DVD collection. Part of leaving my job as a youth pastor and pursuing speaking and writingRead more