Joshua Sowin

Position name: Website Manager.

What do you do at Desiring God? I design, code and program our web pages. I also make some of the content changes.

How long have you been involved with DG? Since January 2004.

Place of birth: The sunshine state.

Website: Fire and Knowledge.

Favorite writers: Blaise Pascal, Charles Dickens, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, Neil Postman, David McCullough, Wendell Berry.

Favorite Piper quote: One of many:

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God's glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it. It is a massive abdication of scholarship that so many Christians do academic work with so little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God's glory is not scholarship, but insurrection. . . .To see reality in truth, we must see it in relation to God, who created it, sustains it, and gives it all the properties it has and all its relations and designs. Therefore, we cannot do Christian scholarship if we have no spiritual sense or taste for God—no capacity to apprehend his glory in the things he has made.

—John Piper, The Pleasures of God (Revised Edition), p. 298.

Family information: Married.

On living in Minneapolis, Minnesota: It's been an interesting experience. Mostly a cold one.

What do you enjoy most for refreshment? Reading widely, spending time with my wonderful wife, writing essays, collecting quotes, playing guitar, motorscootering, walking, and eating good, simple, home-made food!