Welcome and thanks for checking out my Substack! I should say at the outset that you do not have to love crispy Marshwiggle to read these mini essays. You may prefer tender or rare Marshwiggle or you may despise Marshwiggles altogether. Perhaps you enjoy Dufflepuds or some other creature much more. Or you just spent the last thirty seconds wondering if I am crazy and made these words up like I am some poor man's Dr. Seuss. I didn't make them up (see here and here).
I am writing these essays because I want to share my joy in God's world with as many people as I can. I plan on writing on everything from french fries (proof God still intervenes in the affairs of men) to my gratefulness for the book of Proverbs to the literary genius of John Bunyan (if this name is alien to you, please check this out and then check out with the book immediately). God has made so many delightful things, and they were created to be received with thanksgiving (1 Timothy 4:4).
This page will touch on topics across the realms of education, culture, food, theology, and other realms I am struggling to name right now. I want to write about these issues as two great essayists, GK Chesterton and CS Lewis, have done before me. They wrote with exultation in their hearts and stylistic flair on their pens. They remembered that Jesus Christ reigns over all realms everywhere. The reason I can write at all is because all reality comes back to one great Author. We can have answers and truth because we know a God who, as Chesterton put it, "knew the way out of the grave" (The Everlasting Man).
I will be dropping content every Friday. I hope you find laughter and joy in these posts. If you are a Christian, may you find encouragement and strength to live faithfully in the time God has placed you in (today, that is). If you are not, I pray that you come to know this great King, Jesus Christ, who has made everything good in this world and spent His own blood to redeem it. And if you just came here to find out why this is called The Crispy Marshwiggle, you will have to read this. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
Chesterton, GK. The Everlasting Man. Canon Press, 2021.
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