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A Trivial link: 2021 #2

January 15th, 2021 | 1 min read

By Matthew Shedden

I’ve sent this essay to a couple friends this week because it captures so well the project I care about. Increasingly our world is being pulled into thinking in abstractions. But how do we keep drawing ourselves into the “25-foot radius of wherever we are standing.” It seems the great challenge of today is to not lose track of what’s near to us.

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Matthew Shedden

Matthew Shedden is pastor at Defiance Church in a small mountain town in Colorado. There he tries to reclaim the trivial by spending with his family, fly fishing the Roaring Fork, skiing, and cooking.