Tags

A shelf for browsing essays by tag. For the lived questions behind the writing, see Themes.

Essays on Work

Harvey has spent more than two decades writing software — startups, large organizations, daily contract work — and most of these essays come from that desk. Wor...
Essays on Technology

A few early essays from Harvey's time writing about software development — what stress does to a developer's judgment, and what a failed startup can teach. The...
Essays on Theology

Some questions don't fit in a morning journal entry. These essays move into longer theological territory — the Reformation's fracturing of the church, the crisi...
Essays on Faith

Faith, in these essays, is not a settled state but a daily practice of showing up. Harvey writes about choosing faithfulness over career anxiety, committing wor...
Essays on Testimony

Harvey's calling, as he understands it, is simple: tell the truth about what happened. These essays are acts of witness — not argument, not instruction, not per...
Essays on Community

The church has been a source of both belonging and bewilderment. These essays circle the question of what Christian community actually looks like — honest enoug...
Essays on Doubt

Doubt, in these essays, is not the opposite of faith — it is its companion. Harvey writes about skipping church, about the confusion that never fully resolves f...
Essays on Formation

Harvey grew up as a missionary kid on a First Nations reserve in Canada. The childhood experiences in these essays — cruelty witnessed on the way to school, abu...
Essays on Grace

The grace in these essays is not soft or decorative. It appears on a ceramic floor, in the mud of a schoolyard, in the moment a friend goes under the surgeon's...