I’m sure many of you were wondering “why?” after my post yesterday about applying for an internship with The Mentoring Project. “Why does Tyler care about this?” I had to submit a short essay with my application and below is part of it. Hopefully that explains some of the why (My dad doesn’t know anything [...]

For the longest time I’ve been praying for God to show me a way I can get outside my bubble of comfort. Throughout my seminary classes and working at Sunset I’ve been greatly challenged that my faith cannot simply be something I keep to myself. True faith pushes believers to love others. Now for a [...]

So my North Dakota St. pick didn’t work out so well. But, if you watched the game you would know I wasn’t far off. They were close all throughout the game. Of course, the rest of my bracket isn’t much to scream about either. I think I’m in last place in all of my pools… [...]

I thought about trying to write something meaningful today, but it just isn’t going to happen. The combination of march madness and having a midterm on the 4 gospels today has absolutely warped my brain. I have nothing meaningful except lots of information about North Dakota St. (who will beat Kansas today) and Matthew/Mark/Luke/John. I [...]

Over Christmas break I read a book titled On the Side of the Angels. It is a book about justice, human rights, and kingdom mission. One of the authors works with dalits in India. One part really stung: “If we claim to be Spirit-filled but lack a burning desire for justice, all we really have [...]

I recently read an article about how young people are switching from calling themselves “Christians” to instead calling themselves “followers of Christ.” I’ve seen this going on for awhile. I’d say a good amount of my friends on Facebok put something other than Christian in the religion part of their profile. Many say “follower of [...]