It’s already time for me to make my next reading list of the year. I normally wait another month or so to make my summer list, but I want to incorporate two other upcoming events into this post: 1) My 2-month sabbatical from my National Ministries position, which will be all of May and June,Continue reading “Sabbatical/D.Min/Summer Reading 2026”
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With Boredom Comes Opportunity
The week between Christmas and New Year’s, aka “Dead Week,” is one of my favorites of the year. It’s an automatic vacation week for me, but even when it wasn’t, I still loved the unstructured, liminal feel of it. There’s little, if anything to do, and I relish that since there’s usually so much toContinue reading “With Boredom Comes Opportunity”
Offbeat Blackout Poems
Regular blog readers and Instagram followers know how much I enjoy creating blackout poems. I use old free books to make them, but occasionally use other means as well. I enjoy seeing what alternative sentences emerge from the words on a given page. Sometimes they seem profound, at other times they’re rather ordinary. And sometimes,Continue reading “Offbeat Blackout Poems”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 