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About Sarah Woodard
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A (Low-Anthropology) Guide to Quarantine Prayer and ‘Loud Time’
Recently, over coffees and 1000-calorie donuts the size of our heads, a couple of friends and I discussed our morning spiritual routines. I expressed frustration, for the thousandth time, that establishing a morning routine of Bible reading / journaling / prayer / whatever is very difficult for me. And that I consistently feel shame as […]
The Beautiful, Godforsaken Mess of Taylor Swift’s folklore
Last Thursday, Taylor Swift announced the surprise release of her eighth studio album, folklore, to be dropped that night at midnight. The album is made up of 16 songs Swift created in quarantine with the help of Aaron Dessner of The National, alongside Jack Antonoff, Bon Iver, and others. Naturally, my friends and I stayed […]
On Hula Hooping, First Grade Bullies, and Living Language: Mere Words and the Word
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear and vivid and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet of that of […]
“The Story of a Divine Mercy Killing”: The Best Part of My Divine Comedy Is That It’s Ours, Too
Missy Andrews on the Economy of Grace
“A Story Unleashed”: Jesus Couldn’t Keep a Lid on the Gospel, and Neither Can We
Grappling with a Gospel that Stubbornly Defies Reduction
On Quarantine Moods and Finding Grace “Here, within These Peeling Walls”
When Books and Music Console Us in Insolation
To My Fellow 2020 “Graduates”: Some Encouragement from My Middle School Diary
On Finding Contentment in “the Middle”
Leslie Jamison on Grace Without a Backstory
“This is the story of a layover. Who tells that story? I’m telling it to you now. One January evening, my flight got delayed out of Louisiana, where I’d been talking to people about their past lives, and I missed my connection in Houston. I had a night there. Trying to have a travel experience […]
Human Being > Human Doing : A Favorite Piece of Spiritual Advice and Mary Oliver
In my first year of college, a few simple but profound words poured light into the deep, dark depths of my depression-riddled world. The words came to me thanks to an old friend of my dad’s who also happens to be a leader in a ministry I was beginning to dip my toes in. His […]
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