Northeast Alabama

Writing

Profiles of small business owners, makers, and community figures. Personal essays on mental health, ministry, and what comes after.

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The Paper They Gave Away

July 2026

PlacesAlabama

Forty Years of Open Doors

July 2026

PlacesPeople

The Farm at the End of the Hard Thing

July 2026

PeopleCommunity

He Bought Flowers Every Week

May 2026

architecturecivic life

The View from the Boat

April 2026

FoodMusic

Chief Ladiga, 1832

April 2026

PlaceAnniston

Don't Be Afraid to Dream

April 2026

PeopleAnniston

1030 Gurnee

April 2026

PeopleAnniston

A New Way of Growing

April 2026

AgricultureAnniston

Where the Water Thunders

March 2026

PlacesGadsden

The Burning Bus

March 2026

PlacesAnniston

When the Churches Stopped Competing

March 2026

PlacesAnniston

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Personal Essays

Broken Ground

Five Fifteen

Written at 5:15am the morning before driving to Annual Conference for the first time in seven years. Two days before preaching for the first time in twelve months.

A Seed Must Die

Sermon manuscript on John 12:24. Preached at Jacksonville First UMC, May 2026.

The Farm & What Came After

Mental health, farm loss, ministry exit, bipolar diagnosis, and the slow rebuild.