#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Jacob Sahms

I’d like to welcome the very inspiring author and speaker (and fellow UR Spider fan) Rev. Jacob Sahms to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!

Things you love about writing: self-expression, ability to touch someone else’s heart

Things you hate about writing: deadlines, editing myself

Hardest thing about being a writer: criticism

Easiest thing about being a writer: content

Favorite music or song: Christian rap

Music that drives you crazy: techno

Something you’re really good at: coaching sports

Something you’re really bad at: assembling furniture

Something you wish you could do: play the guitar

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: drive a church bus

Something you like to do: go to the beach

Something you wish you’d never done: climb on a roof

Things you’d walk a mile for: family, a sporting event, ice cream

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: politics, extreme opinions, cruelty

Favorite places you’ve been: Boston, MA; the beach (anywhere); home

Places you never want to go to again: Kentucky; St. Louis, MO

Favorite books (or genre): thrillers

Books you wouldn’t buy: diet guides

Favorite things to do: play sports or board games, watch sports live or on TV, read a book

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: root canals

Things that make you happy: time with my family, reading, building LEGO sets, playing sports

Things that drive you crazy: bullying, lack of respect, judgmental attitudes, my own mistakes

Most embarrassing moment: Playing the piano in church without practicing

Proudest moment: Watching my children succeed

About Jacob:

Rev. Jacob Sahms (or just Jacob to everyone he meets) is a son, husband, dad, coach, pastor, and film critic. Originally from Rhode Island, he and his wife Joanne met at the University of Richmond, where he later served as a campus minister and then associate chaplain, before being appointed to local churches in central Virginia through the United Methodist Church. He helped found ScreenFish.net, a site that looks at media from a Christian perspective, and has written for HollywoodJesus.com, Dove.org, and others, interviewing creators of popular media for film and television, including David Oyelowo, Kurt Russell, and Dude Perfect. While that all sounds reasonably similar, he has also flipped burgers at McDonalds, offered advice as a fantasy football guru for an app, made drinks and desserts as a barista, saved lives as a lifeguard, taught English at a junior college, and provided various unmentionable services for local water and sewer. Now, outside of pastoring a church, he coaches his sons in soccer for the Richmond Kickers, where he received the distinction of the Virginia Youth Soccer Association’s Boys Recreational Coach of the Year for 2021-22. When time allows, he’s rooting avidly for the Duke Blue Devils, Boston Red Sox, and Richmond Spiders.

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