The sometimes webjournal of Nathan Lee Green
March 5th, 9:22am Starbucks, Tuskawilla & Red Bug Father, Please help everyone affected by the Parkland shooting—the kids who survived and their families, and the families of the ones who didn’t make it, and the shooter and his family and friends. Draw them close to you.
Here we go... What did I accomplish this year? In terms of things I actually put out into the world, there was very little this year. 2 podcast episodes 4 blog posts Website remodel: nathanleegreen.com Website remodel: ocsplora.com And possibly a short story, Umberrica, but that might have been last year There were a few …
I wasted a bunch of time on Twitter the other day. Shocking, I know. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when when my phone was so old and slow, I just didn’t bother with trying to do anything on it but call and text. Anyways, I was scrolling a bunch of …
Continue reading "The Immigrant Jesus Debate of December 18th"
Let’s rewind the clock, back to March 11th, 2016, four months before I hit publish on Greysuits, for just a quick glimpse into my thought process at the time...(This is from a sort of prayer journal that I keep on Evernote and add to from time to time.)It’s 1:45pm on a Friday. I’m at the …
I’m so thankful I have friends and family all over the political spectrum, from one end to the other. The people I most enjoy spending time with are the ones who know they haven’t got it all figured out, who are insatiably curious and never stop asking questions, who are willing to shift perspectives even …
Werner Kunz, https://www.flickr.com/photos/werkunz/4608613719 In two days, our family is making the epic voyage from our home near Boston, Massachusetts (specifically, the town of Natick) to a new home near Orlando, Florida (specifically, the city of Winter Park). When we moved to Massachusetts in the summer of 2008, we drove a Toyota pickup truck, with most of …
Toppenhof was a peaceful town in North Vermont at the turn of the twenty ninth. Peaceful, but hard. Everyone got along or else they got shot. Those were the rules, sometimes unspoken, sometimes not. Veritable Brixton was a courier of sorts. People on the frontier needed things delivered and they'd pay good money to make …
He walks alone through a small town on a bitter cold night in January. He marches slowly down the sidewalk, dragging one leg, pulling a luggage cart full of objects that look just as worn out and ready to die as he does. He wears a dingy wool cap over oily, lifeless, dirty blond and …
In my head I divide community into two kinds. Tribes A tribe is a community of people who meet together regularly and share their lives with each other, but who are spread out across neighborhoods and towns. This isn’t a Seth Godin kind of tribe, which would involve people around the world connected by some …
A few people have asked lately which podcasts I like to listen to. Here are my three favorites. Discussions by Patrick Dodson (new podcasts every so often) – Patrick lives in New Zealand and works with YWAM. He speaks all over the world, mostly to twentysomething Christians trying to figure out what to do with …
