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Which presidential portrait would you save from a fire?

Recovering the reason for portraiture
Makoto Fujimura
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Issue 17
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High Visibility

We’re made for connection, for being seen by others. What happens when we’re invisible?
Aaron New
3 min read time
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Be encouraged.

A Q&A with Matt Chandler on his new book Take Heart
Matt Chandler
8 min read time
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Letter from the Editor

Collin Huber
2 min read time
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Outrage Culture

Learning to question the point of our protests
Aarik Danielsen
4 min read time
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

A Storyboard podcast
Storyboard
1 min read time
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Finding Womanhood in Wakanda

Black Panther gives us the model of womanhood we’ve been waiting to see.
Rachael Starke
5 min read time
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Held by the Hand That Crushes

How MRSA interrupted my life and my theology
Brianna Lambert
4 min read time
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Ticonderoga No. 2

How twirling a pencil is a lot like writing
J. D. Wills
6 min read time
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A Grief That Never Leaves

Those who mourn are asked to heal too quickly.
John Graeber
6 min read time
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A Physical Faith

Why I no longer want to talk about faith in terms of spirituality alone
Sawyer Nyquist
3 min read time
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The In Between Parents

Learning to bless and let go
John Hawbaker
4 min read time
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Multicultural but Still Homogenous

One black woman’s experience finding white evangelical culture in a diverse church body
Frances Crusoe
6 min read time
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The God We Look To

An excerpt from Matt Chandler’s new book Take Heart
Matt Chandler
4 min read time
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When Anxiety Barges In

A pastor’s unwelcome encounter with panic
Christy Rood
6 min read time
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You don’t belong on the ground.

Navigating what it means to be a friend
Abby Perry
3 min read time
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A Dream Deferred

Stepping over the shoulds in miscarriages and in life
Jasmine Holmes
5 min read time
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A Quiet Place

A Storyboard podcast
Storyboard
1 min read time
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I’m about to lose it.

A choice to let go and like it
Aarik Danielsen
4 min read time
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Broken to Become Whole

Cracking a few lies to find the truth
Abby Perry
3 min read time
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My Own Cool Girl

She will always be at my table, but that doesn’t mean I have to let her ruin the meal.
Jasmine Holmes
5 min read time
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Jagged Edges

Being all of who we are
Abby Perry
4 min read time
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A Divine Appointment

A Christianese Podcast
Drew Fitzgerald
1 min read time
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The Double Cure

Grace that saves and keeps
Aarik Danielsen
5 min read time
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Black Womanhood and the War Within

Let’s be honest about how race has shaped a lot of your life. Let’s affirm the heritage God gave you on purpose. Let’s sit in an uncomfortable moment for a bit longer than a pat answer allows.
Jasmine Holmes
5 min read time
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What Men Need

Aarik Danielsen
3 min read time
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Ready Player One

A Storyboard podcast
Storyboard
1 min read time
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Paradox

Living with contradictions of self
Abby Perry
3 min read time
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“Kill the cool girl.”

Silence the voice of shame inside your head.
Jasmine Holmes
4 min read time
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Swings and Misses

Where Church and Baseball Rise and Fall Together
Aarik Danielsen
5 min read time
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Full Thoughts

Selections for reflection
Abby Perry
1 min read time
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More Than a Love Story

Reading Eve’s story the way it was meant to be read
Jasmine Holmes
4 min read time
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Encouragement

It’s sometimes not the best thing.
Aarik Danielsen
4 min read time
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The Shape of Water

A Storyboard podcast
Storyboard
1 min read time
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When It’s Better to Receive Than Give

Every Monday is an exercise in love.
Abby Perry
3 min read time
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You are enough.

Woman Enough: A new column by Jasmine Holmes
Jasmine Holmes
4 min read time
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Keep it simple.

Loving our neighbors as ourselves is two-sided.
Aarik Danielsen
3 min read time
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Black Panther

A Storyboard podcast
Storyboard Podcast
1 min read time
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Literature As a Gospel Forerunner

Finding hope in A Wrinkle in Time
Tatyana Claytor
4 min read time
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Bodies of Truth

Our bodies are more than spiritual.
Abby Perry
4 min read time
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The Noonday Demon

A writer’s perspective on acedia and the spiritual gift of solitude
Sarah Kay Ndjerareou
4 min read time
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Why don’t we talk about Anne Brontë more often?

The nineteenth-century feminist novel all Christians should read
Ashley Anthony
6 min read time
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A Celebration of Spitfire Women

How Ruth Graham changed the mold for pastors’ wives
Whitney Putnam
3 min read time
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The Purposeful Beauty of the Bible

A review of the ESV Illuminated Bible
Sophie DeMuth
5 min read time
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Holy Ground

A story
Kristen O'Neal
2 min read time
Poem

With this ring, I thee wed.

A poem
Sarah Vondra
2 min read time
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A Song Worth Hearing

A review of the February selection for Storied—Sing, Unburied, Sing
Collin Huber
4 min read time
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The Stories Movies Tell

How to watch movies
Jed Ostoich
8 min read time
Article

Longing for a word from the Lord?

Finding ourselves in the silences of the Bible
Heather Luensmann
3 min read time
Poem

Fearless Love

A poem
Ashley Tieperman
1 min read time
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How Parenting Prepared Me for Pastoring

My son broke my idols and showed me balance.
Nathaniel Williams
3 min read time
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When God Messes with Your Theology

God is a whole lot more complex than our systematic theologies make him out to be.
Preston Byrd
4 min read time
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When Being Mixed Makes You an Interruption

Lessons from a mixed race and mixed culture woman
Tasha Burgoyne
3 min read time
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