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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
The newest Star Trek series launched this week on Paramount+. I have been cautiously waiting for its arrival wondering if I would be on board or not. I’ll admit, the series I wanted them to make was Star Trek: Legacy, the potential series set up in the series finale of Star Trek: Picard. Starfleet Academy…
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The Beautiful Kingdom Builders podcast
I had the privilege of being on my sister Ruth’s podcast, The Beautiful Kingdom Builders. Almost a decade ago she launched a Facebook group with the purpose of advocating for women, justice, victims of abuse, and healing from church hurt … her following on that page has grown to more than 75,000 people, which is…
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Sunday Recap | January 11
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for January 11th, 2026! We kicked off the hour with an elimination game I made, Timeline Trouble. We gave away some Renew Student Conference t-shirts to the winners. We concluded series, Keep it Simple. Mandi Scalia taught high school, Ella Johnson taught middle school. We have a tendency to make…
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Sunday Recap | January 4
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for January 4th, 2026! Jacob Anderson kicked off the hour with a game he led, Head Shoulders Knees Cup. Super fun! And he brought a $10 Chick-fil-A gift card which definitely had people motivated. We had one announcement: We continued our series, Keep it Simple. Kim Biasotto taught high…
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Staying Power: Building a Volunteer Team that Lasts
This past November I had the privilege of being on the main stage of the DYM100: Roundtables conference during the first session! The video below is a TED Talk style presentation called “Staying Power: Building a Volunteer Team that Lasts” (big thank you to DYM for giving me the footage!). The presentation was based on my…
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2025 Writing in Review
2025 is a wrap! I finished my dissertation with distinction, I had eleven different curriculum series or one-off lessons release on DYM and Coleader, as well as four small group study booklets. I also had 48 games and game bundles release over the course of the year and 12 countdown videos. This was the year…
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Sunday Recap | December 28
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for December 28th, 2025! We opened the hour with the New Year’s edition of Would You Rather? It was a fun way to finish out the year! We had two announcements: We kicked off a new series today called Keep it Simple. Eden Foester taught high school, Tanner Braselton…
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2025 McNutt Family Christmas Letter
Another Family Christmas Letter where no actual letters are being sent. It’s like I don’t even know how this is supposed to work. 2025 has been a big year for our family! Here’s the recap: Micah is 24 and graduated last May from the University of Delaware. It’s wild to think he’s finished already –…
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Sunday Recap | December 21
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for December 21st, 2025! We opened the hour with a game called Sit Down If: Christmas Edition; it was a quick and easy game to go with since our worship team had a longer set this week with Christmas worship songs! I taught our high school students this week, Melissa…
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Ethnos360’s Handling of Rich Hine Revisited
Honestly, I thought I had said everything I needed to say about the abuse that happened at the Ethnos360 (formerly New Tribes Mission) boarding school I attended. You can find links to all of those posts here. And then I started making TikTok’s of me reading my old journal entries from when I was 15…