About
If you are like me, the mountaintop calls. The summer overseas, the high-impact conference, or the transformative retreat. These are the moments we remember. But they are not the mission.
What This Website Is
Crux Borealis is a place for essays and reflections on faith, scripture, and direction. It’s not a map from someone who has arrived—it’s notes from the road. The writing here is pastoral and introspective, grounded in Scripture and aimed at the ordinary: home, work, and the daily rhythms where character is formed. You’ll find thoughtful hooks, scriptural anchors, and questions that invite reflection rather than prescription.
What the Name Means
Crux is Latin for “cross.” It points to the heart of Christian faith: the cross of Christ and the theology that centers on it. Borealis refers to the north—as in the northern lights, or “true north.” Together, Crux Borealis suggests a fixed point: the cross as our true north, the reference by which we orient our lives. Faith. Scripture. Direction.
The Fellow Pilgrim
The goal here is simple: to find the holy in the ordinary, and to challenge one another not through lecture, but through shared invitation. The voice is warm and honest—a fellow pilgrim, not a guru.
We champion the mundane as the true testing ground of faith. Our primary mission field is not thousands of miles away. It is right under our feet, in our time, our words, and our work. The defining moments of our walk with Christ are forged in the discipline of an ordinary life.
Mountaintop and Mundane
The contrast between the “mountaintop” and the “mundane” runs through everything here. The mountaintop is extravagant, distant, and flashy. The mundane is daily rhythms, home life, and the quiet. Unless we begin by being faithful in the “very little,” our faith has no solid ground.
Scripture anchors the writing, and it is applied immediately to daily life. Words spoken at home, ethic at work, and private thoughts are the avenues where the refining fire meets the ordinary.
What You’ll Find Here
Essays and reflections that follow a rhythm: a relatable hook, a gentle pivot, a scriptural anchor, and a bridge to the rhythms of life we all know. Each piece often ends with a Golden Question, not to prescribe steps, but to invite self-examination.
Faith. Scripture. Direction. It’s intentional, it’s honest, it’s Crux Borealis.
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