I know not many people have likely stuck around my blog this long. For those that have (or will return), I want to thank you! This blog will be taking a new direction in chronicling my life as it moves beyond college. I’m sure I will talk about technology some, and there will likely be occasional pictures of me. This blog will likely be heavily focused on religion. I’m working with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA next year at Purdue University Calumet, a school in Hammond, IN. I want to talk more about that in a post of its own.

I know that many of my readers (especially current and former University of Chicago students) are not religious. I am more than ok with that. Too often Christians put themselves away from the rest of the world. We have our own language and terminology, our own good things and bad things, our own traditions and customs that serve not to make us holier, but weirder. Part of what I hope to do in this blog is to talk about with a wider audience many of the things that I would talk about with other evangelical Christians, but I want it to be an open dialogue with terms that are well-defined up front. I want to live a life of authenticity, a holistic life before my friends, partners in ministry, and anyone else who cares to read this blog. I know that I won’t always agree with all of my readers (I hope I don’t), but I believe I can learn a lot from people who differ from me.

On a more Grider-related note, I graduated June 12 (yes, over a month ago), in a ceremony that can best be described as the best graduation to ever take place in a thunderstorm. I received a bachelor’s of science from the University of Chicago. It was a pretty great day. A picture of Grider is in the next post.

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