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“The Green Light of Forgiveness” Glimmers at the End of Taylor Swift’s Dock in evermore
If Taylor Swift didn’t shock you enough in July when she traded in her usual meticulously planned album campaigns for the unceremonious surprise release of folklore, perhaps she managed to this time around with her second surprise release of 2020. On December 10, Swift announced, just as casually as before, that her ninth studio album, […]
A (Low-Anthropology) Guide to Quarantine Prayer and ‘Loud Time’
“If My Life is Loud, Why Can’t I Just Be Loud with God?”
The Beautiful, Godforsaken Mess of Taylor Swift’s folklore
“I’m Still a Believer but I Don’t Know Why / I’ve Never Been a Natural, All I Do is Try, Try, Try.”
On Hula Hooping, First Grade Bullies, and Living Language: Mere Words and the Word
Oscar Wilde and Toni Morrison on the Power of Words
“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 […]