About
I live in the Portland (Oregon) Metro area with my wife, two kids, and cat. I work in local government and am making a stab at running an extremely unprofitable web design/hosting/consulting business for churches and nonprofits. If you’re interested, check out DragonTree Media.
I originally began this blog with Blogger, moved it here, and now have it someplace else. It started as pretty exclusively focused on religion - thus “The Faithful Skeptic.” I was working through my issues around religion - mainly can you have questions and still be faithful? I think the answer is a resounding “yes.” But as I think about it, the concept applies to other areas, as well. In politics and life (for instance) I think that principles matter, but there’s still a place for us to ask questions and wonder occasionally that everything we believe might be totally wrong.
I’m a United Methodist and a registered independent, but I don’t think either of those affiliations accurately describe me or represent what I believe.
About the Subtitle
The subtitle is more or less ripped off from Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. The relevent excerpt is below:
…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.