Articles By: Jordan Green

Jordan Green is from Portland, Oregon. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Burnside Writers Collective. Besides editing, Jordan Green has also worked as a courier, a barista at a large coffee purveyor, and as a US Army Counterintelligence Agent, among other things. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Mindy, his daughter Lana, a dog, and two cats.

College Football, Star Wars and Baby Behemoths

A few months after this site started up, which seems like 10 years ago, I received an emailed article about golf from some Alabamian named Chad Gibbs. “No one cares about golf,” I muttered. But I read it anyway, and it was surprisingly funny, so we ran it. Then Chad sent another article,...

August 6th, 2010 | Books, Burnside Sells Out, Featured, Sports | Read More

Enough About Men…What Do You Think About Men?

I’m guessing you knew this already, but Mark Driscoll, the flamboyant head of Mars Hill in Seattle, is a mildly controversial character. He hates The Shack and Avatar. He went from emergent poster boy to neo-Calvinist poster boy. He was the subject of a pretty good, and somewhat scathing,...

July 28th, 2010 | Essays, Featured | Read More

The Golden Age, Part IV

I’ve mentioned many times that I believe we’re in the Golden Age of Television. I’m not alone in that, and I’ve heard it a number of other places. But many of us were saying so even before shows like Mad Men, Treme, Community and Parks and Recreation. Even as The Sopranos,...

June 15th, 2010 | Featured, Television, The Idiot Box | Read More

Bordering On Crazy

SB 1070, the immigration reform bill Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law last week, is awful. Feel free to read it yourself (it’s not an overly difficult law to understand), but here are some important excerpts: “Requires a reasonable attempt to be made to determine the immigration...

April 27th, 2010 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Hop Churching – IPAs

A few years ago, three of my best friends and I bought 24 different India Pale Ales, took them down to a beach house at the Oregon Coast, and held a blind taste test. The results were satisfactory enough, with each of us determining which IPAs we favored, but the test was run haphazardly. I dumped...

April 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Food and Drink | Read More

We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Long before I came to edit this site, I enlisted in the Army. When you enlist, there are a number of jobs you can choose from. These are called MOS’s, or Military Occupational Specialties, because the US military never says anything simply. I didn’t want to be a truck driver or an infantryman,...

February 3rd, 2010 | Essays, Featured | Read More

The Decade in American Christianity

If you’ve been exposed to any sort of media the last week or so, you’ve likely seen a number of year and decade recapping lists. Lists are generally fun to write, allow the composer to bask in the genius of their own opinion, and can be prepared to run in the dead week between Christmas...

December 31st, 2009 | Essays, Featured | Read More

The Best Television Scenes of the Decade

I’ve stated a number of times the ’00s were the Golden Age of television, when HBO and a number of network shows officially blew the film industry out of the water. When we look back on the great stories of this decade, we’ll remember books like Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead”,...

December 27th, 2009 | Featured, The Idiot Box | Read More

The Patron Saint of Burnside

David Gentiles, father of Hannah, Calla and Ariele, passed away Friday in Austin, Texas. He was badly injured in a weightlifting accident, and held on long enough for his daughters to reach his side. David’s name should be familiar to fans of Donald Miller. He was Don’s youth leader growing...

December 20th, 2009 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Christmas In the Margins

Editor’s Note: In celebration of the release of, as Larry Shallenberger puts it, “Burnside writer, sage, and smart aleck” John Blase’s first book, here’s an interview between John and the enigmatic Thomas Marshfield. After you read it, go to Amazon.com or Powells or something...

December 8th, 2009 | Burnside Sells Out, Featured | Read More