Jordan Taylor

Jan 2, 2024 | medium.com | Jordan Taylor

I just finished up this book the other day, and I must say that this was a refreshing look on how and where and when to implementing Tidy’s. First off I would say that Kent Beck references to Tidy’s as a form of refactoring; with this being said Refactoring always has a notion of large heavy work, with Tidy’s this is not the case. Tidy’s should be thought of small and concise sections of work. In the book he dive into different sections of Tiding and when and how this should be done.

Jan 2, 2024 | uncannymagazine.com | Jordan Taylor |Clockpunk Studios

Ingredients:Bramblewilde’s honey was famous, not just in their own village, but in every village their village traded with. It was warm and sweet as late summer sunlight, and some said the smallest taste would cause you to forget all your cares and woes. Others said too large a taste would lead you to forget your own name, and more besides, and so it was better to stick to the honey sold by the local goodwives and leave the fairy’s alone—even if Bramblewilde’s was the sweetest in the shire.

Oct 9, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Ian Harber |Jordan Taylor |Sam Ferguson |Winfree Brisley

In many 1990s evangelical youth groups, Audio Adrenaline’s song “Big House” was a fun song to break the ice for middle and high schoolers. We were looking forward to “a big, big house, with lots of rooms.”But many of us didn’t feel like God’s house was all that big. Instead of having enough space to play football, some people felt they were stuck in a stuffy attic with low ceilings and only one small window to let in light. It felt more like a prison than a place of hope and joy.

Oct 9, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Patrick Miller |Kyle Richter |Jordan Taylor |Sam Ferguson

“God brought me back to him when I was hopeless.”“God helped me set aside drugs, alcohol and porn.”Advertise on TGC“God took the anger out of me.”“I found joy again.”After I (Kyle) had spent 16 years pastoring a college ministry in my local church, these handwritten stories of personal conversion and radical life change from Gen Z students brought tears to my eyes. They wrote them at the end of the 2023 school year as a testimony of what God did that year.

Oct 6, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Winfree Brisley |Melissa Kruger |Jordan Taylor |J. D. Greear

Over my years serving in local church women’s ministry, I (Winfree) have heard a consistent desire from women of various ages, stages, and life situations—“I want an older woman to mentor me.” It’s a good desire and a model Paul commends in Titus 2:3–5. The difficulty tends to come in how these relationships practically work out. As younger women, we tend to view mentoring as a one-way street. The older woman pours into me.