True Woman ’25

This week, I traveled to Indianapolis. My employer, Revive Our Hearts, put on a women’s conference for over 6,000 in-person attendees and over 7,000 online participants. This three day event challenged women to “behold the wonder” of the Word of God. All of the messages were focused on this theme.

The conference consisted of four main sessions from Thursday night to Saturday morning. Friday was a full day with a morning session, afternoon breakout sessions, and an evening session.

I was involved with the livestream, which included five different languages including English. I had put together the livestream pages in the weeks leading up to the event. During the event, I monitored the livestreams to make sure they were working and then posted the archived videos. I also added content to the website. I spent most of the conference “on call” backstage.

I did get a chance to step away from the computer and watch two of the talks. I listened to Kevin DeYoung on Thursday night and took in a very powerful message from Jackie Hill Perry on Friday night.

I enjoyed the opportunity to see how this ministry is impacting the lives of women who read our content, listen to our podcasts, and attended the event. The women were so excited to be there and made a lot of noise on Thursday night when they opened the doors to the venue. It was great to see groups of women praying together in the hallways. I am looking forward to hearing stories on how God worked through the conference in the days ahead.

It was great to get to meet several teammates in person for the first time, especially Rachel from our French team. I have interacted a lot with her over the past three months as we migrated Réveille Nos Cœurs from WordPress to Django CMS and as I worked with her over the past three weeks on content for the French livestream page.

I enjoyed getting to work side by side with my digital team. I roomed with Nicolas, who joined Revive Our Hearts at the same time as I did six months ago. I work closely with Nicolas on the front end of the Revive Our Hearts website. This is the first time I have seen him in person since we onboarded. I also enjoyed catching some meals with Nicolas, Bryan (our team leader), and Logan (backend). We ate dinner at PF Changs on Wednesday night and got breakfast together on Thursday morning at Café Patachou.

I enjoyed seeing several groups of women at the Indianapolis airport with their conference t-shirts or tote bags. And some were on my first flight to Chicago. They all seemed to have enjoyed the conference.

Enjoying the sights

In the midst of the long day on Tuesday, I needed a break late in the day. My team leader suggested going to my hotel and taking a nap. I chose instead to walk around downtown and take in the architecture of Indy. I had already taken some pictures of the Indiana Repertory Theatre on Thursday morning and had taken a couple of pictures when Nicolas and I went out to grab lunch for our team earlier in the day. I walked over the Artsgarden and then took pictures of the buildings nearby before heading over to the Monument Circle. It was a short outing but it refreshed me and fed my creative soul.

Read more and see pictures from my wandering around downtown Indy

Delight

This caught my eye at the Indy airport. The sign for the bathroom was whimsical. It took on a 3D quality with the the head peeling forward. I also thought it was clever that they used two different colors to distinguish and make it easier for busy, on-the-go travelers to know where they needed to go.

I like to add delight to my work. But I am not sure that I have thought about it and been as intentional about it recently. This “delight” in the Indy airport was a challenge for me to think about and ask how I can bring delight into my work. I want to be more intentional to consider this.

Things I wrote

• Anti*: those things left undone – I was inspired by Jim Nielsen’s article, Anti-*: The Things We Do But Not All The Way. His article deals with those things that we have intention to do but don’t follow through or things started but not finished. I thought through some of my antis and I inspired Joe to write an anti-post.
• Wandering around Indianapolis – pictures I took wandering around downtown Indy for an hour on Thursday afternoon.

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Articles I read

• In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking notice (Susan Sharon) – Someone in my small group had mentioned this and then I saw this story in my Bluesky feed.
• AI is the asbestos of the web (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Why my watch buzzes at 10:02 every morning (Ed Stych)
• Running Software on Software You’ve Never Run (Jim Nielsen)
• Clutter (Michelle Barker)
• Youth Protest in Serbia (Timothy Synder)
• When ‘Evangelical’ Means Everything but the Gospel (Joe Carter on The Gospel Coalition)
• Building, Sharing, and Owning Your Online Presence (Ana Rodrigues) – Write up of a conference talk. It got me thinking about my own journey in owning my online presence. I remembered this morning that I had written about that journey almost two years ago, Becoming comfortable with my digital home.
• From 2005: My Mobile Office: BK (Joe Crawford)
• A Sudden Death: Voddie Baucham, Who Warned the Church of Fault Lines (Christianity Today) – I had not heard of Voddie before. But we were the same age. Sobering.
• Goodbye Henry (Joe Crawford) – Joe reflects on a plant that followed him through a lot of life change.
• Make a Damn Website (Louie Mantia) – Another call to make a personal website.
• We all have a choice (Salma Alam-Naylor)
• Resurrect the Old Web (Steve’s Bear Log)
• How much do you really know about media queries? (Daniel Schwarz on Frontend Masters Blog)
• A carried leaf. (Ethan Marcotte)
• Old Wisdom for Navigating New Technology (Joshua Torrey)
• Reflections From Green IO 2025 (Michelle Barker)
• If You Are Elevating Charlie Kirk, Consider Who You Are Crushing Underfoot (Nijay K. Gupta)
• Captain Pike is . . . a Christian (Mark Hansard) – Mark is a good friend of mine and recently published Star Trek and Faith Volume 1.
• Studio Notes #52 (Dan Cederholm)
• Doing It Manually (Jim Nielsen)
• A few fun nesting tips & tricks (HTML & CSS Tip of the Week, Kevin Powell)
• The Fog of War (Dan Sinker)
• Antipost: Religion (Joe Crawford) – I inspired Joe to write an antipost.
• The End of Summer (Jonathan Snook)
• Modern tools are worse (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Pete Hegseth and the Generals (Joyce Vance)
• Same Idea, Different Paint Brush (Geoff Graham) – Geoff compares web development and making music. I enjoyed his insights.
• The False Hope of ‘Rebrand Yourself!’ Identity Shifts (Brett McCracken on The Gospel Coalition)
• What if the Tide-of-Faith doesn’t come back in? (Stephen McAlpine)

What I watched

• Project Runway, various episodes (Samsung TV)
• Star Trek: Into Darkness (Paramount+)
• Matlock (Paramount+)
• The Voice (NBC)
• Parts of Red Sox-Yankees (Games 2 and 3 of ALWC) and Dodgers-Reds (Game 2 of NLWC)

What I listened to

• Navigating the World of Web Accessibility (Kevin Powell with Sara Soueidan) – I listened to this on my walk Monday night.
• Getting A Frontend Job In 2025 On Frontend Fire (Adam Argyle) – I listened to this on the plane on the way to Indy on Wednesday.

Caught my eye

I like the illustrations, animations, colors, and textural elements of this personal site of writer A.B. Hamilton.

Books I am reading

• Sunday Matters (Paul David Tripp) – I read one devotional a week.
• Everyday Gospel (Paul David Tripp) – Reading through the Bible this year with this devotional.
• All That Jesus Commanded (John Piper)
• To Be a Woman (Katie McCoy)
• The Basketball 100 (David Aldridge & John Hollinger)

Walking

• Sunday – 4.18 miles in 1 hour 17 minutes
• Monday – 3.2 miles in 1 hour 3 minutes

What I played

MLB The Show 20 (Twins) – I lost two games, both in 11 innings to two different teams, the Indians and the Royals.

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