About
Why this exists.
This is not a personal brand. It is a field notebook kept by someone trying to follow Jesus through the whole adventure of life — work, travel, failure, beauty, and ordinary Tuesdays.
Why Ben Cross?
The Cross of Jesus has defined my life: His death and resurrection, my hope of eternal life, and the reason I want to spend this one well. "Ben Cross" is also an intentional public name. It lets the writing be public while family, home, and daily life stay private. This site points past me.
Adventure With Jesus
Christianity is not something to believe from a distance. It is following Jesus through work, relationships, travel, suffering, decisions, risk, service, failure, beauty, uncertainty, and ordinary life.
One Life
This present life is short. Because eternity is real, how we spend this one matters — the work, the money, the friendships, the risks, the Tuesday.
Where to Begin
Camino Notes
August 3, 2026
Notes on faith, inconvenience, and the road to Santiago
You can research a pilgrimage for years. You can buy the right boots. But nothing happens until the morning you shoulder the pack and put one foot in front of the other in the cold.
Portugal & Spain · 9 min read
Camino Notes
July 20, 2026
On packing light, and the difference between a burden and a load
Every pilgrim overpacks once. The lesson is never learned in a shop; it is learned on a hill.
Galicia, Spain · 7 min read
One Life
July 6, 2026
Arithmetic, eternity, and why a short life is not a small one
If the numbers are roughly right, most of us get about eighty summers. That is not depressing. It is clarifying.
Somewhere over the Atlantic · 6 min read
Life is short. Live forever.
Field notes, adventures, ideas, coffee, projects, and occasional opportunities to gather, serve, or go somewhere worthwhile.