Josh Benner

Tag: TEDS

  • American pastor is a hostage of the Turkish government

    In 2016, there was a coup attempt against the Turkish government and their president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.  Factions of their military launched uprisings in several cities. The coup failed. The Turkish government believes that one of the intellectual leaders of the coup was Fethullah Gulen, a writer and former cleric who currently resides in Pennsylvania. Andrew…

  • The story of the time I lost a job through a “thank you” card

    Once upon a time, I had a menial job working for a very large company. I don’t want to name names so I’ll just make something up. Let’s say the company was called “Stationwide.” So I originally interviewed for a company who did hiring for Stanionwide and they brought me back in for a second…

  • Life update: I’m moving to Chicago in 19 days

    I’m so excited to be moving to the Chicago area on May 20. It’s a sudden decision and is something that, just a month and a half ago, was honestly not on my radar and that I hadn’t been considering. This spring, I started taking graduate classes at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in their Master…