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Bence Taylor

Bence Taylor is a writer, musician, and the founder of Nothing Personal Journal.

Writing

Pedestrians with umbrellas cross a rain-soaked New York street beside leafy trees and a building with fire escapes. — Photograph by Chanan Greenblatt / Unsplash.

You Can Love a Place and Still Want to Leave

I can miss New York without treating the missing as an instruction.

Vincent van Gogh’s The Good Samaritan: a man in yellow lifts a wounded traveler onto a horse against a blue mountain landscape. — Vincent van Gogh, The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), 1890. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. Public domain.

What Jesus Actually Taught

His teachings become more difficult when we stop assuming they are meant for somebody else.