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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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. …

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…