Howdy, I’m Ian.

I’m a sinner saved by grace. I am a husband and father.

I work as a software developer by day, but after hours I try to keep technology in its place. I am something of a neo-Luddite, and I work hard to balance modern tools with a desire to work with my hands.

My interests are many and varied. I have a degree in New Testament studies, with a minor in Koine Greek, and I love studying and discussing theology. I also live on a farm in very rural Missouri with my wife and children, so I spend a lot of time being a cowboy, dairy farmer, vet, larborer, general handy man, and whatever else the day might require.

I am also drawn to the Middle Ages: their literature above all, but also the languages that carried it, Latin and English, and the wider imaginative world those texts inhabit: the theology that ordered it, the cosmologies that mapped heaven and earth, and the myths and legends that still cling to the margins of the page. I am currently pursuing an MA in Medieval Literature and Language, so while I don’t have any standing at all, it won’t prevent me from pretending I do!