I’m Ryan. By trade, a nurse practitioner, by appetite, a lifelong student of the strange and beautiful ways all of scripture keeps pointing to one person. I write for anyone curious about Christianity, as well as those who feel disillusioned, find it boring, or want to explore beyond what they receive on a Sunday morning.

I have been quiet on here for a few years because I have been writing a book.

The Beauty of the Blood Stained Cross is the whole story I’ve been circling in these pages for years: holiness, sacrifice, and the God who refused to let us go, from the fire of Sinai to the wedding it was always moving toward. I started writing for my boys. I’ve come to believe it’s for anyone who was given only part of the story and deserves the whole.

If something here resonates, don’t leave empty-handed. I send new writing straight to email. No noise, no hard sell, just the next thing I’m seeing in the text. The book grew out of these. Subscribe, and you’ll be the first to know the day it is here.