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Jonathan Martin

@theboyonthebike.bsky.social

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Author of The Book of Waiting, The Road Away from God, How to Survive a Shipwreck, Prototype. Host of the Zeitcast. Director at DePauw University Center for Spiritual Life. Pastor Fillmore UMC.

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 21

Things got so hectic for me end of the semester, I fell off the wagon… I’m glad you followed it through! I’m about to resume as if nothing happened 😂 #adhd

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 4

I don’t know quite how to account for this. Why do I feel…caught, somehow? 🤣

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 4

Day 11

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 2

Ah thank you, Jan!

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 2

Oh wonderful! This makes me really happy to hear!

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 2

That’s super kind, thank you!!!

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 2

What a humbling thing to say…thank you so much, that’s really generous!!

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 2

Head on over to the kindle store & get yours now free, while you can!

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 2

I’d appreciate it if you’d help me spread the word—and if the book does speak the language of your own soul, reviews are super helpful. But mostly I hope this will help you carve out space in you to enter into more deeply into your own longing.

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 2

I believe that honoring this kind of consecrated time actually changes the temperature in our lives, & in our communities. I simply want to get this deeply personal passion project into people’s hands.

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 2

A free gift for you!

For the start of Advent, I’ve decided to make the ebook of The Book of Waiting: Reflections on Advent & Christmas available for FREE, today (Monday)—Wednesday only! I believe in living into the longing that Advent embodies. I believe that your own waiting is not wasted.

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 2

Day 10

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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Jarrod McKenna 🦘 @jarrodmckenna.bsky.social · Dec 2

Friends, I’m honoured to join so many incredible Palestinians friends in this powerful advent devotional: redletterchristians.org/2024/12/01/a...

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 1

Day 9

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 1

I don’t know my way around here at all, this is super helpful, thank you!!! I will absolutely start doing this!

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Dec 1

yeah this one definitely never leaves you

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Nov 30

Not everyone wants that kind of dissonance in their Advent, or better said it’s why we’d sometimes rather not have Advent at all and skip to Christmas…but I don’t know what any of “this” means, if it doesn’t name THAT longing, give language to THAT yearning.

#advent

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Nov 30

I could not write myself to any sort of ridiculous “solutions”, only the proclamation that is at the heart of faith: into the terror, under the rubble, Christ is born. It’s where God came, surely it must be where God is/how God is coming now.

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Nov 30

In the same way the slaughter of the innocents is as much a part of the Christmas story, as the Christ child being born—it’s always been a story of trauma, hope, defiance, lament.

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Nov 30

I wrote The Book of Waiting: Reflections on Advent & Christmas in a kind of fever dream, with Gaza on my mind-with real sights and sounds and people I love on my mind. In a way it’s always been the story of this particular stretch of land…

#advent

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Nov 30

I love Silence (taught it for a semester last year and had a blast), but this is my favorite Endo. Was apparently his too…he saw it as a culmination of his journey, & as I understand it requested it be the book that was buried with him!

Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Nov 30

Day 8

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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Brian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · Nov 29

Blessings on all of you who are about to journey through Advent and Christmas with The Anticipated Christ. May you encounter Jesus in new and wonderful ways. #Advent

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Jonathan Martin @theboyonthebike.bsky.social · Nov 29

I think of this line from Mulder to Scully on the X-Files every time I see a jacked up truck in Oklahoma 😂