ABOUT

Who am I? ○ What do I write about? ○ Where to find me ○ Disclaimer

Who am I?

Well... I'm Dave! 👋

I live in Prairie country near the beautiful Canadian Rockies with my family. I'm a proud Aussie who ironically became a Canadian citizen on Australia Day many years back.

I studied Hebrew and archaeology at university, was a youth pastor in several churches, and worked as a youth worker/food services manager for a Christian social non-profit.

Most recently, I have been a stay-at-home dad while transitioning my career into OSINT, Online and Private Investigations.

I am a Christian who is a bit of a theological mutt – influenced by the rich theology and traditions of Anglicanism, Presbyterianism, and the Baptist church. There is also a bit of a (restrained) Charismatic influence too.

Though faith is vital to my identity, I loathe hyper-spiritualized politics and hate.

I'm an INFJ (Advocate) and Enneagram 2 (Helper) type who, according to the Political Compass is a left-leaning liberterian. On the spiritual side, my APEST Personal Vocational Assessment has me as a Prophetic-Shepherding type.

Besides that, I'm just a guy who loves podcasts, movies, football (soccer), family adventures and writing.

What do I write about?

OSINT & Investigations: OSINT, Python, Privacy, Tools and learning the art of Private/Online Investigating. This includes my hobby research project focusing on the rise of Christian nationalism in Canada.

Prairie Life: Thoughts about Life on the Canadian Prairies, including Family News, Politics, Travel, Photography, Mental Health, Fitness, Toxic Families/Relationships, Disability and Parenting.

The Liturgy of Life: Devotional Thoughts, Sermons, Lament, Theological Quotes, Prayers, rethinking my Theology, and seeing Jesus in the ordinariness of Life.

Media & Pop Culture: Podcasts, Movies, Books, Music, Video Games and all things Pop Culture.

The Curry Pot: Recipies for Curries, Soups and the other things that I make in my Instant Pot.

Brain Soup: Whatever is on my mind, regurgitated for your pleasure – usually in rant form.

Finally, I have also written extensively on my experience with familial, spiritual and emotional abuse.

Where to find me:

You can verify my online identities using Keyoxide or my PGP Key.

You can also subscribe to posts via RSS or any ActivityPub enabled account at @neonprairie@writing.davewinter.dev

Alternatively, you can have posts sent directly to your email:

Disclaimer Stuff:

This is my personal website and blog; the information presented here is of a general nature and represents my own independent opinion. It is not endorsed by any employer or client, nor does it constitute any official communication by or for anyone else.

It's fine to disagree with me, but I'm unlikely to engage with you unless you display a modicum of style and intelligence.

When possible, alternate privacy-respecting social media frontends, such as Nitter, Libremdb and Invidious, will be used across this site.

Most of the art has been created using the OpenAI DALL·E 2 system, Midjourney and the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

The Christian Standard Bible and CSB are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

Finally, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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