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Mar 28

Christian, you are not loving

A brief reflection on conversations with Christians — There’s a problem with the way some Christians talk to members of the LGBTQ+ community. “I love you so I’m going to tell you the truth” is a manipulative platitude Christians often use to frame their attempts to correct someone else. I recently had a conversation with a Christian friend…

LGBTQ

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Christian, you are not loving
Christian, you are not loving

Feb 25

A brief reminder for technical writing

Know your audience — I recently found a note in an old notebook for work and it was from just before the bottom fell out of society in the naïve days of the fall of 2019. There was so much I was excited about then which has all been panned (or “on hold” indefinitely…

Software Engineering

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A brief reminder for technical writing
A brief reminder for technical writing

Feb 23

Check out my technical blog

A brief introduction to michaellamb.dev — I’ve owned michaellamb.dev since I became a developer full-time because I knew one day I would be brave enough to learn in public. I am currently a Software Developer II at C Spire, a telecommunications and technology company headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. A lot of my job at C Spire…

Software Engineering

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Check out my technical blog
Check out my technical blog

Jan 25

Forgive Us Our Wealth

or What to Do with Your Time in College — This article was first published in the Mississippi College student newspaper THE COLLEGIAN in September 2013 Let’s begin with a quote from the old American comedian, W. C. Fields: “A rich man is a poor man with money.” Our roots and our backgrounds are diverse, but at the end of the day we are all facing eternity. Every one of us will stand before the creator…

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Forgive Us Our Wealth
Forgive Us Our Wealth

Jan 19

“How can you live alone?”

What breaks my heart when I hear someone say, “I don’t know how you can live alone,” is the hidden assumption behind the words that my home is somehow a prison of inescapable torture or overwhelming loneliness and despair. More than once in the last 5 years someone has told…

Life

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“How can you live alone?”
“How can you live alone?”

Oct 27, 2021

The Forgotten Art of Typewriting

My experience writing letters and notes on an antique machine — I have possessed a typewriter for a year. In this time I have learned how to properly set the carriage, adjust the ribbon, and type with accuracy. The friend who loaned this machine to me gave me simple instructions: write. He viewed this particular typewriter in a spiritual sense and…

Creativity

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The Forgotten Art of Typewriting
The Forgotten Art of Typewriting

Oct 14, 2021

To the Christian who can’t affirm same-sex marriage

A short survey of my view of Christianity, the bible, and gay marriage — I get it. I understand the worldview which holds the bible to be an ultimate authority, believes the bible to be infallible, and uses the bible to make sense of the world. People who willingly submit themselves to this authority, however, tend to hold to the tradition that a biblical…

Religion

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To the Christian who can’t affirm same-sex marriage
To the Christian who can’t affirm same-sex marriage

Aug 26, 2021

Vice and Virtue in THE GREEN KNIGHT

An adapted chivalric epic — David Lowery approaches filmmaking as poetry and not prose. His films emphasize highly stylized visual language and emotional provocation over other things general audiences prioritize like action or romance. These things are present in his films when the story calls for it but they are put into their time. In…

Film

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Vice and Virtue in THE GREEN KNIGHT
Vice and Virtue in THE GREEN KNIGHT

Apr 28, 2021

Fitness requires being uncomfortable

This is the true athlete: the person in rigorous training against false impressions. Remain firm, you who suffer, don’t be kidnapped by your impressions! The struggle is great, the task divine — to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility. -Epictetus I have previously shared on social media that working out…

Fitness

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Fitness requires being uncomfortable
Fitness requires being uncomfortable

Mar 5, 2021

I am gay and it is about time I said it out loud

An article for coming out — I will turn 32 this year. I’ve known I am gay for the last 20 years of my life. I started telling friends in 2015, the year I first had a boyfriend. I don’t advertise my sexuality but the news should not shock anyone who pays attention to the content…

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I am gay and it’s about time I say so
I am gay and it’s about time I say so
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Michael Lamb

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