HeyJaredBrian Moll
I'm a writer spending inexcusable amounts of time on squeaky wheels.
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If You Want Something, Never Do This (opens the original)
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Fifty years later, the most embarrassing moment of my life is still something that happened in the 6th grade as I stepped off the school bus. The night before I had opened up the phone book, ran my finger through all the names in our small town that ended in “C,” and found the home number of the dream girl I met on the first day of middle school. Every 5th grade graduate from the various elementary schools converged into one building, and I met the love of my life in Science class. Puberty had c
You Never Know Until You Knock (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago I stepped inside the notorious Cook County Jail in Chicago with four men from a roofing company. I was helping a friend introduce some new re-entry curriculum, and he had invited these four guys to share their personal stories inside one of the largest jails in America.Adam, who was previously incarcerated inside the same jail we stood in, kicked it off.A former drug dealer – depressed and despondent for years – Adam had just won his company’s Rookie of the Year Award. Eclipsing
The Most Dangerous Scripture in the Bible (opens the original)
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The most dangerous verse in the Bible isn’t the one about hell.It isn’t the one about wives obeying husbands, or slaves obeying masters, or the seven ‘clobber’ passages used to terrorize our queer friends. Those verses have done real damage, and they deserve every ounce of scrutiny they’ve received.But the most dangerous verse is not any of them.The most dangerous verse is tucked inside Jesus’ most famous sermon. Unknowingly, you may already have it memorized.Seek, and
Death is Imminent. Life is Not. (opens the original)
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This week I learned of another friend, Sean, who died of colon cancer. The same disease that stole my friend Derek, and my own mother, thirty-six years ago. All three of them in their forties or fifties. Forced to leave family and friends who now miss them in beautiful, terrifying ways — their final breath a last gasp at the life they weren’t done with.My father clocks in at 82 this month. He may live to 102. Maybe I check out before he does. Whatever the order, the only question left is the sam
Hard as Hell (opens the original)
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Nine years ago today, I met a man who changed my life. We've spent the last year turning that friendship into a book — part memoir, part theology, all truth — and today, on the anniversary of our first encounter, I want to give Ja the floor. What follows is an excerpt from one of his chapters in the manuscript: an unfiltered account of an abused, abandoned, undocumented, and unhoused young man navigating New York City alone. No pastor's gloss. Just Ja.Ch
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