We do not need a revival.

We need a Holy Renaissance. A revival without a renaissance makes only converts—yet to be “Christian” today does not always mean to be Christ-like. A renaissance, however, invites us to become disciples of Jesus, to become His life-long students.

The word “Christian” only appears three times in the New Testament. The word “disciple,” or “student,” appears nearly 300 times.

The Holy Spirit is stirring a hunger in Christians today for spaces where they can become students, disciples, of Jesus Christ. God’s activity on earth, “ever old, and ever new,” is a continuous stream of one salvation story after another, and we are invited to participate in these stories in an intimate way. There actually is a great cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1). There actually is “one holy catholic and apostolic Church.” And when we were baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we were reborn into this company of saints.

My name is Tyler Blanski, and I am an author, housepainter, and musician based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. This website is to help people follow my work. I am following God’s call to join in His salvation stories by preparing to become a Anglican pastor, to “Go and make disciples of every kind of people, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded” (Matthew 28:19-20). To start out, I am currently attending seminary to humbly and seriously take on the task of discipleship to Jesus Christ, to put myself in a place for Him to transform me. And I want to invite you to join me in living in a community of discipleship to Jesus, to delight in His love and to live in obedience to His commands. Let us create spaces where God is glorified not only through our words, but through our very lives.

A Holy Renaissance—that is my prayer. Together becoming students of Jesus. Going back to the sources. Being fed by passages of Scripture. Entering the long and curious story of God-on-earth, the tradition. Chewing on the wisdom of those who have gone before us, the saints. Being nourished by the sacraments. Daily practicing and nurturing God’s salvation with that involuntary shaking and reverent fear Saint Paul talks about (Philippians 2:12). And most of all, getting out of the way—or becoming a way—for God to heal and love broken people, to join the Holy Trinity in making even more salvation stories.