

Jesus was a nobody (and this is good)
First off, hello again! I'm back! After my second year of graduate school, this blog kind of tapered off a bit. Which is to say, it...

Mission Report: Year 2
When I started writing this blog, one of my hopes was to each year write an end-of-year summary of what I’ve been up to. My semester...


Living Radical Forgiveness Today / Open Letter to Father Matthew Laffey
Okay, so here’s the thing. I made three New Year resolutions this year: reading John Lee’s “Introduction to Smooth Manifolds” and Allen...

The Consequence of a Consistent God
In spite of the fact that I haven’t written in this blog for several weeks now, this next post is something I’ve been meaning to write...


Mission Report: Year 1
And so my first year of graduate school comes to a close! Well actually it came to a close a few weeks ago, and I’ve just been lazy since...

The Cantor Set: A Love Story
Hey folks! We’re back! Sorry it's been so long since I've written here; I haven't lost interest in the blog, it's just that these past...


In(finity)ception
A few weeks ago, I had a student in my office one Friday afternoon, looking for a little extra help understanding the material. While she...


The betrayal of math education
There are so many things I want to write about. I want to write about how I fell in love with mathematics. I want to write about some...


The Fall of the Hilbert Program
Hello all! Sorry it’s been a while since my last post. As some of you know, this past week was a little rough for me. Last weekend I...


An Innocent and Impossible Question
Every Labor Day weekend, my mother's siblings get together for an annual family reunion in the beautiful mountains of Wheeling, West...