Josh Retterer
Full Brightness
Who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears?
Is the Church Getting Worse?
Wendall Berry’s How It Went and Some Wisdom From Will Willimon
Pandemic Pastors and What Remains
After a few years of devastating blows or tiny, constant cuts, what remains at the bottom of your well?
Misapprehending Reality with Joan Didion
“We all distort what we see. We all have to struggle to see what’s really going on.”
Offering Dangerous Promises in Rural England
Hope is a difficult and maybe a dangerous concept to offer or promise.
Remnants Of A Feast
Does God’s Grace fit in Tupperware?
Are You Gaslighting Me God?
When things fall apart, it’s easy to feel like we’re being toyed with for no reason.
Joan Didion Goes to Gamblers Anonymous
“After that Meeting I Wanted Only To Be in Places Where the Lights Were Bright and No One Counted Days.”
To Pandemic Pastors Dying to Quit
A Sensitive Look at Suffering Clergy. And Werewolves.
Surprising Fasting Advice from a Hermit
Are We Becoming Holy? Leave it, This is God’s Business.
Skepticism and Low Anthropology: Beholding the Magic While Missing …
“When I Listened to Him there was Such a Strange Joy and Pain within Me, I Don’t Know How to Describe It”
Wendell Berry Wants to Shoot a Drone
“I Don’t Think Humans Have any Power over Meaning. Meaning is Given to Us. We Can’t Make Meaning.”