About George
For the disciple
living a real life.
After more than twenty years as a pastor, I traded the pulpit for a desk by a field. I still believe the Gospel has something steady to say to our restless, ordinary days.
A quiet place to think
“I write toward the places where faith meets the kettle, the commute, the grief, and the kitchen table.”
The longer story
Ordinary faith, written slowly.
I grew up in a small town where faith was simply part of the furniture — present, unremarkable, and quietly sustaining. I was ordained at twenty-six, certain I understood the Gospel. By thirty, I had discovered how little I knew about how it actually worked in a real life.
For two decades I sat with people in hospital waiting rooms, at kitchen tables, through divorces and funerals and quiet crises of faith. I preached on Sundays and visited on Tuesdays. I learned that the questions people actually carry are rarely the ones they ask in church.
When I left pastoral ministry, my wife suggested I write down what I had learned. Not a theology. Not a self-help book. Just honest words for people trying to follow Jesus between the interruptions.
That is what this is. Short enough to read in a quiet moment. Long enough, I hope, to stay.
Key milestones
1998
Ordained as pastor
Began pastoral ministry in a small rural congregation. Twenty-three years of Sundays followed.
2004
Personal season of doubt
A difficult year that reshaped how I read Scripture and how I speak about faith. The source of everything honest in these pages.
2011
Started keeping a journal
What began as personal notes became the skeleton of the articles here. Writing slowly made me think more carefully.
2021
Left pastoral ministry
Moved to the countryside. Traded the pulpit for a desk by a field and began writing in earnest.
2023
Launched George
The Sunday letter began with twelve readers. It now reaches thousands of ordinary disciples each week.
"God is not looking for polished prayers. He is looking for honest ones."George — from "The grace of an unfinished prayer" Read that article
What shapes this writing
Three convictions I write from.
Rooted in Scripture
These articles are not self-help dressed in religious language. They begin with the Bible — not as a proof-text, but as a living word that has walked beside me through every season described here.
Grounded in everyday
Faith that cannot survive a sink of dishes or a difficult conversation at work is a brittle thing. I write about faith in the places where most of us actually live — the commute, the argument, the Tuesday afternoon.
Honest before God
I am not interested in presenting a tidier version of faith than I actually have. If these articles have any value, it is because they do not pretend. God can be trusted with our doubts, our grief, and our half-finished prayers.
George writes with the voice of someone who has sat in the dark and learned not to rush toward the light.
A three-minute read that somehow stays with me all week. Clear, gentle, and deeply true.
I forward George's Sunday letter to my husband every week. It gives us something worth talking about over breakfast.
I appreciate that George never pretends faith is easy. He just shows you that it is worth it.
A note for George