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Author: Jonathan Balmer

Co-Pastor of First Baptist Muncie, Indiana (alongside my wife, Kendall Ellis). Father of one daughter, Moira Jane. A huge 120 pound dog (who knows his breed? Not us!) lives with us. His name is Alpha. Originally from the Cincinnati area, I've worked or studied in Ohio, Kentucky, Brazil, the United Kingdom, South Carolina, South Korea, Texas, Virginia, and Indiana. I enjoy Cincinnati Reds baseball, podcasts, video games (Nintendo and Xbox), and (almost inevitably) finishing 2/3rds of a book before getting distracted by a new one.
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Stephen Speers and I explore Jungwon (Fulbright: 1 Year Since)

13 Jul 201615 Jul 2019
For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that there is not much to follow. In short, this grant year, I have done horribly at documenting…
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Visiting Gwangju: Mid-term school observation trip report.

1 May 20161 May 2016
My principal gave me mid-terms off to travel to Gwangju, under the condition that I write a report and take pictures about what I saw. So, I thought, let's kill…
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What have I been doing?

14 Feb 201614 Feb 2016
Things went dark around here after week 3.5 in orientation. Turns out Fulbright Korea Orientation gets pretty busy. Perhaps, around April, I will post about that. Just in time for…
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Fulbright Orientation Week 3: Why I love visiting churches and Why ecclesiology is like surgery.

2 Aug 20154 Aug 2015
I am thankful for those of my ETA friends who consistently put up with my slow learning. Each time we are out, they correct my lacking Korean pronunciation. And, as…
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Fulbright Orientation Week 2-2.5: It’s a bit of a blur, really.

29 Jul 20152 Aug 2015
"Orientation, I remember that," an undisclosed renewing Fulbright grantee said to me, wistfully, as remembering childhood in a sort of Richard-Dreyfuss-narrating- Stephen-King's-Stand-by-Me-tone:. The tone indicated a mix of horror and…
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Fulbright Orientation Week 1: Yohan learns kimchi is a fact of life, but he does not like it. (He likes everything else swell though).

18 Jul 201518 Jul 2015
Blog post on Monday, July 13th- Saturday, July 17th, 2015. After a long time of travel, all the ETAs (English teaching assistants) arrived at the Incheon airport outside of Seoul, filled out paper…
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The sun has set in the west. The sun also rises in the east.

10 Jul 201510 Jul 2015
The sun has set the last time for me over the skies of Ohio and Kentucky. Last night, celebrating at Connor and Georgia's wedding, I looked over the treeline at…
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Why Southern Gothic Rules the World -MO Walsh

4 Jul 2015
Second, the basket. The basket on this bike is full of vivid characters. Scholars are quick to call them “grotesques”, as they are often deformed or bigoted or violent but,…
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Pentecostal power -Curtis Freeman

17 Jun 201517 Jun 2015
Pentecostal power Members of the Baptist World Alliance and the Pentecostal World Fellowship will meet this coming August in Quito, Ecuador, for a series of ecumenical conversations to begin asking…
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Teaching people to be congregational: renarrating voting -Stephen Holmes

12 Jun 2015
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we do church meeting badly… (‘we’ = ‘most British Baptists of whom I am aware’.) A part of the problem is,…

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