Category: ATB

Once upon a time (starting in 2010 and running for a little over a year) Ben put in a lot of hours on a blog named “Assume The Best.”

It chronicled his life as a full-time staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ, attempting to make light of and encourage specifically around the process of raising financial support.

We had left staff at that point, and this writing is an interesting look into his process of grieving that loss, with an eye toward “becoming a writer.”

Here, in the order they were released, are those posts.

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December’s Top Posts!

Last month 949 visitors from 92 countries saw 2,539 pageviews on Assume The Best. Not too shabby, huh? Here’s the five posts that saw the most action, in descending order:

Number 5: The Overstuffed Holiday Newsletter.
Number 4: My Personal Favorite Post: About walking to the mailbox.
Number 3: Crashing Christmas Parties: A handy guide.
Number 2: Contacting Dead People
And the number 1 most read post on Assume the Best for December:
A tribute to Hugh Jones, and my extremely sad email address in college.

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Thankful Thursdays: Calling in Sick. (finish the post for me!)

Here at Assume the Best, the world’s leading blog relating to both humor and missionary fundraising, we have a tradition of peeling back the attempts at humor and talking every Thursday about the things for which we are thankful.

Today I’ve got a getting-over-a-bug toddler sitting on my lap, a right-in-the-middle-of-it wife conked out on the guest bed behind me, and a hopefully-going-to-sleep-tonight 4 mo. old in the other room. Continue reading “Thankful Thursdays: Calling in Sick. (finish the post for me!)”

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