+ whois ju +

+ Cursory Bio +

My name is Justin Ubel and I am an associate pastor at University Fellowship Church in Eugene, OR.  My current hobbies include spending time with my wife, Jessica, and my daughter, Brooklyn, playing guitar, reading, disc golf and watching the complete 7 seasons of the West Wing for the third time.

+ About This Blog +

I’m not a man of many words, but I am a man of words. Maybe it is the result of having opened my mouth one too many times in my youth just to have the wrong words escape before my brain could filter them, but as I have grown, so has my obsession with words. If I am not careful, I could spend an hour polishing the language on even the most trivial of written communications, say an email to the dentist inquiring as to when I am scheduled for my next cleaning or this blog post. I have an affinity for poetry, but I am also easily seduced by a well crafted essay or finely turned musical lyric. My fascination with words is akin to that of American novelist Walker Percy, who published a book of essays with the subtitle, “How Queer Man is, How Queer Language is, and What One Has to Do with the Other.” Despite having read the essays, I’m still not quite sure I know.

To the point, this blog is to be my outlet for words…poetry, prose, journal entry, lyric, monologue (or dialogue), theological discourse, rhetorical question, stream of consciousness or unfinished thought. I hope it to be more relevant than less, more articulate than incoherent, more often than not, and in all things honest. If you find it stimulating, helpful, amusing or otherwise noteworthy, feel free to leave a comment or two. Like a small child, I need reinforcement of positive behavior (also read: if you don’t comment, this endeavor will probably fizzle quickly.) And so I begin my musings, in so many words.