I grew up in Sumas, Washington, on the Canadian border. My dad was a pastor in the towns largest church. My mom had a far more challenging job, raising me and my seven siblings. While I rebelled like many kids against my parents' version of Christianity, ironically my rebellion took me deeper into the roots of the faith I intuitively knew had serious merit.
I had questions. How can I relate to a God if he was only transcendent but not also interested in humanity? The more I searched, the more I was drawn to an incarnate God I believed must be present throughout history, all societies, and all creation. Today I believe the world is in a daily, ongoing story, an intimate drama between God and people and creation.
This conviction keeps me writing. People ask what I write about. Like most writers, I write about what I'm most passionate about, what I experience, what grabs my curiosity – from the most mundane to the universal to the most supernatural, from waiting at a bus stop to floating in a kayak in the middle of pristine gulf waters. It all qualifies.
My passion as a writer is to grasp even a fraction of the mystery and life around me in poetry, articles, and stories (fiction and non-), and doing so with excellence. I want to hone my craft so that my work entertains readers, engages their hearts, and provokes thought.
I was featured in the student newspaper at the university where I teach English.
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I had questions. How can I relate to a God if he was only transcendent but not also interested in humanity? The more I searched, the more I was drawn to an incarnate God I believed must be present throughout history, all societies, and all creation. Today I believe the world is in a daily, ongoing story, an intimate drama between God and people and creation.
This conviction keeps me writing. People ask what I write about. Like most writers, I write about what I'm most passionate about, what I experience, what grabs my curiosity – from the most mundane to the universal to the most supernatural, from waiting at a bus stop to floating in a kayak in the middle of pristine gulf waters. It all qualifies.
My passion as a writer is to grasp even a fraction of the mystery and life around me in poetry, articles, and stories (fiction and non-), and doing so with excellence. I want to hone my craft so that my work entertains readers, engages their hearts, and provokes thought.
I was featured in the student newspaper at the university where I teach English.
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