I am a “secret nerd” (or not so secret, depending who you ask), and enjoy: building computers, linux, Free and Open Source Software, teaching myself web design and coding, video games, and science fiction/fantasy literature. I also love to spend time with my wife, my youth, and our cats (in that order of importance).

I have been affiliated with the PCA for most of my life, and in general find myself with an interest in all things theological and philosophical. I studied history and philosophy in college, and am currently serving as a youth pastor with intent to head to Seminary in a few years time.

I am most interested in seeing this website become a place for thoughtful, loving, and engaged discussion between the oft-fractured and segmented portions of the Christian body. It seems to me that many times our Christian presence on the web takes the form of (pick your poison): vitriolic hate, ignorant blathering, or denominationally-centric theological debates. Maybe there’s a place for the third item in that list, but certainly not the first two. My hope is that we can bridge denominational, theological, and cultural barriers through the sorts of discussion and interaction that our current Christian “web presence” distinctly lacks.

Now that I’ve broken the ice a little bit…let’s see if we can’t get Andrew and Stephen to post a little bit about themselves as well.

Today I learned my first lesson on blogging: always back-up your work as you write. I lost the entirety of my first “real” post earlier when BloGTK crashed on me running on Ubuntu Linux. So far I’ve been unsuccessful at retrieving the data and am more or less resigned to the fact that I’ll have to rewrite it. Oh well, could have been worse.

While I’m here, let me talk briefly about out current structure and setup as we get started. Readers should notice three primary blog contributors for the near future; myself (Eric), Andrew, and Stephen. I’ll leave it up to each of us to say anything personal about ourselves, but let me just say that I’m very excited to have these two excellent men on-board with me and think you will benefit from their unique and varied perspectives and interests.