My name is Chris and I am the editor of Tribal Living. I am also one of the founding "core" members of Tribe.
I am currently living in Portland, ME with my wife, Jenny, a fellow Tribe member. I work as the Youth Director (pseudo-youth pastor) at The Salvation Army. I majored in both writing and psychology and Houghton and still have a great interest in both. I'm an avid (or addictive) gamer and a lapsed writer. I say lapsed writer because of how rarely I actually do write and how dissatisfied I am with my writing in general. But I am working on that.
Overall I'm really enjoying life at this point. I absolutely love my job. I get to talk about the Bible and play games with kids and get paid for it! It doesn't get better than that. Also, as any Tribe member could tell you I am definitely a city person. Portland is just the perfect size of city for me. Just walking downtown is an adventure and I love being here.
As good as things are going I do also miss Tribe. A lot. I go into my feelings of loneliness in much more detail in my personal blog so I'll be brief here. I feel very lost without Tribe. I don't have many friends here and I've been in Portland for over a year. I don't really have anyone to just spend time with. Tribe is my community, and I miss it. Without friends to roll their eyes at my jokes or go on adventures with I really don't have much excitement in my personal life. Also, to me Tribe feels very much like the family I married into. As a Tribe member who married I Tribe member I do feel very much that Tribe is a kind of extended family. They’re the cronies for me to make dumb jokes with and the people for Jenny to talk about everything with. They are my community. And we live in diaspora. I like to think that someday Tribe will all live together. That is my dream.
The thing that makes Tribe so special in my mind is just how many levels we can connect on. It's not that we're all similar, far from it, it's simply that we can always find a way to connect. With most people I meet I can find one point of connection. Like, I can connect with you because you are a Christian. Or a gamer. Or a geek. Or whatever. But with Tribe we do not connect because we are similar, we simply connect because we are. Existence is reason enough to connect. I seriously miss that.
I'm very excited to be starting this blogging project with Tribe. I think this will be a great opportunity to communicate and also explore some of the really interesting issues that Tribe as a group works through. I guess I'm most excited because knowing Tribe this blog could turn into anything. There is literally unlimited potential. I can't wait to see what happens.
Well, that's it for me. Thanks for reading. As a reward take this awesome GIF. You're welcome.
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