Aaron J. Smith is a dad, husband, nerd, coffee chugger and kind of a mess. He hates writing about himself. It is the worst.

Aaron tries to live out a self-donating, other-centered love as a Christian, a theologian, a spiritual director, and a writer. He writes at The Book of Common Words, where he attempts to explore the Christian spirituality of being human.

Aaron grew up in Utah and moved to the Pacific Northwest in his late 20s, where he now lives with his wife and two kids.