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slowing down

with ryan pennington

noticing beauty  | beholding beauty  |  living beautifully

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My name is Ryan Pennington. I wrote a collection of poems and prayers called Both And: Forty Poems and Forty Prayers. I'm an obnoxious Nebraska Husker fan (who doesn't even love corn or the color red). My favorite bands are Twenty One Pilots, Paramore, and Kings Kaleidoscope. I enjoy walking, making analog collages, playing piano, getting lost in good music, and traveling to concerts with my wife. Green is my favorite color and my tattoos prove it. ๐Ÿ’šโ€‹โ€‹

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my spruced up bio: 

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Ryan Pennington is a pastor-poet, communicator, and educator whose work explores the sacred architecture of ordinary beauty and inevitable pain. A lifelong Midwesterner, Ryan spent the first half of his life in Nebraska before settling in South Dakota, where the seasonal rhythms of the Great Plains deeply inform his writing.

He holds a B.A. in Theology from the University of Sioux Falls and an M.Div. from Kairos University (formerly Sioux Falls Seminary). After nine years in pastoral ministry, Ryan now serves within the Sioux Falls School District, maintaining a creative practice through writing poetry and prayers, creating analog collage, taking endless pictures and videos of everything beautiful, and inviting others into a more beautiful reality on social media.

His debut collection of poetry and prayer, Both And: Forty Poems and Forty Prayers is available on Amazon and Wipf and Stock Publishers.

He lives in Sioux Falls with his wife, Crystal, and their cat.โ€‹โ€‹

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