My name is brian ayers

I’m a writer and pastor who has spent much of my life helping people make meaning during seasons of transition. For years, that work happened in churches and ministry leadership. Eventually, it became personal.

A few years ago, a season I believed was central to my calling came to an end. It wasn’t dramatic or public. It was simply over. And with it came questions I didn’t yet have language for: Who am I now? What still matters? How do I move forward without pretending nothing was lost?

Rebuilding didn’t come quickly. It came quietly.

Through slow practices, honest reflection, and faith that had to be relearned rather than assumed, a new sense of purpose began to take shape. Not a replacement story. A truer one.

That season is where this writing was born.

Today, I write for people navigating the in-between: after something has fallen apart, but before a new future feels clear. I’m especially interested in the patient, often unseen work of becoming whole again; spiritually, vocationally, and personally.

Running long distances has shaped how I understand endurance, pacing, and the kind of faith that isn’t built all at once, but mile by mile.

When I’m not writing, I’m usually running trails, making a careful pour-over with a good single-origin coffee, or working alongside mission-driven organizations at the intersection of faith, technology, and culture.

This site is home to that work, and an early expression of a larger project still taking shape.

If you’re rebuilding too, you’re welcome here.

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