Sarah Gates
Ashamed of the Violences of Life
But is God Ashamed?
What? You Too? I Thought I Was the Only One.
Confession, Vulnerability, and Love
Is Kelly Clarkson Actually OK?
As many times as she insists “I’m fine,” one wonders whether it’s really true.
Baptism and Breakups
Revelation and Religious Symbolism in Taylor Swift’s “Clean”
One Pair of Footprints in the Sand
Is this the voice of God, or my own desperation?
Chronic Faith in a Long, Terrible Middle
Am I supposed to be “growing into this,” rather than yearning for anything but?
Phone-Banking and Other Coping Mechanisms
On Not Believing that God is in Control (but also Pretty Much Believing It)
Our Souls House Many Homes
Landscape, Memory, and Ignatian Imagination
The Book of Sarah: On Eczema and Existential Despair
When God Doesn’t Explain Our Suffering
Five More Minutes: A Meditation on Sexist Grandfathers and Revisionist Histories
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.
“Out of Nowhere…I Can Imagine Good Things Happening”
Justice and Unbelievable








