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Faithful Representations: The Bible That Vanished Without a Trace
Thankful for this post from Rachel Arteaga: In the spring of 2004, the Oregonian reported that police in Portland had found “an elaborate camp dug into a steep hillside” in Forest Park, a 5,200-acre woodland conservancy just within the city limits, where a man and a young girl, presumably father and daughter, had been living […]
Black Sheep, Doubt, and Unburdening
This thoughtful post comes from Trevor Almy: From as early as I can remember, I’ve been at least mildly eccentric; that is to say, I don’t conform to the cookie-cutter, southern Christian stereotype. Growing up, my idiosyncrasies accentuated my feelings of weirdness in a church where the “standard” Christian youth was a high-performing student athlete. […]
The Irony of Outrage and Sufjan Stevens’ “America”
This one comes to us from Jeb Ralston. Sufjan Stevens, that enigmatic and soft-spoken tortured soul of a musician, released a new single last week, “America,” with the not-so-subtle timing of being one day before the Fourth of July. Sufjan, who is no stranger to political commentary through the lens of his own Christian perception, […]
July 4th, Sufjan, and the Wake-up Call of Death
Thankful for this post from Grace Leuenberger: This week, Sufjan Stevens announced a new, forthcoming solo album titled The Ascension, his first since Carrie and Lowell debuted in March 2015. I remember listening to the album on that frigid March morning, sitting with my legs cramped underneath my dorm room desk. Tears sprung up in […]
Optimizing Life, Profaning the Sabbath
Delighted to have this post from Derrick Bledsoe: There are few things more stressful to me than the sudden realization that I have forgotten something meaningful. If a special meeting, a sensitive phone call, or a research paper submission were an iceberg, then I am absolutely not going to make a tasteless Titanic joke (but […]
Horrifying Piety: The Real Villain of The Witch
The Violence of Self-Justification: A Chilling Warning for Church-Goers
A Beautiful Paradox: God’s Presence In Our Doubt
Unafraid to Doubt—and Brave Enough to Talk About It
The Triumph of Lo-Fi Aesthetics
The American Entertainment Industry Drops Its Mask— and Gives Hope to the Rest of Us
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