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The Gifts That Came with Survivor’s Guilt

Sentiment and Steady are my new companions

Kaitlin Wernet

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Issue 19

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How to Be a Burden

Living in the Spirit of Jesus

Garrett Flatt

5 min read time

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On the Yoga Mat As It Is in Heaven

Combatting the difficulties in life with yoga

Annie Parsons

7 min read time

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I am afraid of death.

Death is not the way it’s supposed to be.

Courtney Reissig

3 min read time

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The Foundations of Morality

Filling in the gap in The Character Gap

Christian Miller

4 min read time

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Empathy

An excerpt from The Character Gap

Christian Miller

5 min read time

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God’s Will for Being

A review of Jen Wilkin’s book In His Image

Tatyana Claytor

4 min read time

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The Founding Father of Failing Fathers

Reflections on the fatherhood we hand down to our sons

Mark Blitch

6 min read time

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Made in the Image of a Relational God

Pictures reveal paradox of solitary confinement at Eastern State Penitentiary

Ann Toews

6 min read time

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Not good for man to work alone?

What the church can learn from the expulsion of women from the the tech industry

Rachael Starke

8 min read time

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Letter from the Editor

Issue No. 19: Neighbors

Kelsey Hency

2 min read time

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Why Pastoring Won’t Let Me Quit Politics

Staying in politics because we love our neighbors

Daniel Darling

4 min read time

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Teaching Confession, Learning Repentance

The fallout of Junot Díaz and how it changed my teaching

Joe George

6 min read time

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Increasing Our Self-awareness

A Q&A with Christian Miller

Christian Miller

9 min read time

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Crossing the Street

Exchanging stories in the backyard

Jen Pollock Michel

3 min read time

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Neighborly Bread

Affection and friendship are like kneading bread.

Laura M. Fabrycky

5 min read time

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I have a question.

How come God blesses whom he blesses?

Linda McCullough Moore

4 min read time

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Loving Self to Love Others

An exploration of self-care as a tool to serve

Nadine Schroeder

4 min read time

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When Words Fail

The Steep

Abby Perry

3 min read time

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Expectations Nearly Killed My Marriage

Woman Enough

Jasmine Holmes

4 min read time

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Middle Child Syndrome

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

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My Friend Pain

Living with a joy-thief

Abby Perry

3 min read time

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The Father’s Love in Motherhood

Woman Enough

Jasmine Holmes

4 min read time

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Shame on Shame

The one thing we all have in common

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

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Grown-ups don’t watch cartoons.

On being ourselves, and being adults in a grown-up world

Abby Perry

3 min read time

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I’m no John Cusack.

The Dis(content)

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

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Is there room for relaxation?

Living in both the downs and the ups

Abby Perry

4 min read time

Article

We’re not just playing bad guys.

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

Behind Frenemy Lines

Jasmine Holmes

4 min read time

Poem

Sarah, in a Year

A poem

Russ Ramsey

1 min read time

Poem

Foundling

A poem

Jonathan Rowe

1 min read time

Poem

The Beauty of Type

Artist Showcase

Eva M. Winters

2 min read time

Article

Rain Dance

The line between internal and external being

Abby Perry

3 min read time

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“Who is my neighbor?” in a #MeToo and #ChurchToo world

How the church can do better in supporting the victims

Kimi Harris

6 min read time

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It’s a wonder-full world.

What we gain when we comit to a theology of wonder

Tommy Welty

4 min read time

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Unguarded Words

Regretting the things we say

Sunanya Pal

2 min read time

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Familial Fractures

A review of the May selection for Storied—The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

Collin Huber

4 min read time

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I’m here for the lack of ribbons and bows.

A first letter from a Fathom editor

Rachel Joy Welcher

3 min read time

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We belong to one another.

Recapturing the idea of neighborhood

Kaitlin Curtice

4 min read time

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“Should I hate for those few evil ones?”

Meet Ahmed, a Syrian refugee who knows nothing of bitterness.

Justin McGee

4 min read time

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Cracking the Code on Hospitality

A review of Rosaria Butterfield’s The Gospel Comes With a House Key

Laura Lundgren

4 min read time

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The Gift of a Good Neighbor

Director Morgan Neville offers us a gift in his documentary on the life and influence of Fred Rogers.

Destiny Teasley

3 min read time

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The Wrong Door

A look into the lives of others

Karen Katulka

3 min read time

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Cross the Threshold

Thoughts on being a good neighbor

Jamie Hughes

4 min read time

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Youth Group or Frat House?

Exchanging humiliation for hospitality in student ministry

Ian McLoud

4 min read time

Article

The Readability of the Bible

A review of the Comfort Print Bible

Lisa Cooper

4 min read time

Poem

Ars Poetica Op. 12 No. 4

A poem

Tommy Welty

1 min read time