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Wave Slowly as if God Is Leaving

I am here because I don’t have any answers.

B.J. Miller

Deeply Curious

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Issue 22

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Back to the Ballet

I don’t think my life is a failure, but I did think of myself as a failure for a long time.

Jessica Ribera

6 min read time

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When Thieves Stole All Our Family’s Belongings

A Theology of Stuff

Seana Scott

6 min read time

Article

Heart-Grabber

Every night, I know there’s a chance he won’t wake up.

Ash Parsons

6 min read time

Article

I Am the Daughter of a Pedophile

This supposed man of God, this loving father, this doting grandfather had played us all

Leah Elliot

5 min read time

Article

Into the Unknown

Her eyes meet mine again, and she sees in me the truth—that I lie.

Dawn González

2 min read time

Article

Unity does not mean uniformity

Disagreements and the Bond of Christian Love

Kyle J. Howard

4 min read time

Article

The First Time I Felt Lamentations in My Bones

Finding comradery for my faith’s restlessness in the Bible

Nancy Fraizer

3 min read time

Article

Because I Wanted To

A story

J. D. Wills

4 min read time

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I Became What I Hate

What do you do when you realize you have become what you hate?

Jason Kanz

3 min read time

Article

Finding Faith in a Rich and Tragic Palette

A review of The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

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My Anxiety, My Magical Thinking

I Can’t Keep My Kids Safe

Kimberly Duffy

4 min read time

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How do you fail at resting?

The Israelite failure hits a little close to home.

Rory Chapman

5 min read time

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The Fear Factor

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

3 min read time

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Prophetic Survivors: Jim VanSickle

Here for the survivors one-hundred percent

Abby Perry

7 min read time

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Bootstraps

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

1 min read time

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The Haunting of Hill House

A Storyboard podcast

Storyboard

1 min read time

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The Wheelbarrow

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

I Might Be Wrong

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

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Prophetic Survivors: Kelly Haines

You are not alone

Abby Perry

6 min read time

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Speak No Evil

The Dis(content)

Aarik Danielsen

3 min read time

Article

Halloween

A Storyboard podcast

Storyboard

1 min read time

Article

The Helper of My Life

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

Ms. Oliver's Neighborhood

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

It’s Not About Biblical Womanhood

Woman Enough

Jasmine Holmes

4 min read time

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Every Bright Patch of Green

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

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Prophetic Survivors: Kenny Stubblefield

Hope for those still here

Abby Perry

6 min read time

Article

Sad Songs Say So Much

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

I drove by Mandalay Bay the other day

The Las Vegas Shooting, One Year Later

Destiny Teasley

3 min read time

Article

A Star Is Born

A Storyboard podcast

Storyboard

1 min read time

Article

The Strength in the Cry

I see myself and my wife in our little girl

Chris Wheeler

6 min read time

Article

A Warm Welcome Back to Christian Books

A review of Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been by Jackie Hill Perry

Jonathan Minnema

4 min read time

Article

The Choice Between Family and Country

A review of the September selection for Storied—Bury What We Cannot Take

Collin Huber

4 min read time

Article

The Dynamic Grief of Tahlequah

What A Whale Can Teach Us About Grief

Beau Denton

5 min read time

Article

Doubt is more common than we’d like to admit

A review of God Over Good: Saving Your Faith by Losing Your Expectations of God

Lisa Cooper

4 min read time

Poem

April wakes up in Ohio, not sure how it got there

A tanka

Casey Mazzoli

0 min read time

Poem

An Early Fall

A tanka

Sandee Finley

0 min read time

Poem

Someone Once Told Me

A tanka

Katherine Hanna

0 min read time

Poem

Tonight, the moon is

A tanka

Jillian Hazel

0 min read time

Poem

Caleb

A tanka

Laura Kauffman

0 min read time

Poem

Burning Bushes

A tanka

Laura Kauffman

0 min read time

Article

It isn’t rest until it isn’t for anything.

Creativity and the economy of rest.

Lyle Enright

11 min read time

Article

The Patron Saint of Young Adulthood

I was nineteen the first time I read Augustine.

Austin Gohn

6 min read time

Article

The Sacrament of Medication?

A People Formed by Signs and Seals

Joshua Briscoe

9 min read time

Article

Windows Into Other Minds

A Q&A with the author of our September Storied pick—Bury What We Cannot Take

Kristin Chen

5 min read time

Article

I Long to Live in the Country

Searching for Beauty, Battling Discontent

Sarah Cozart

6 min read time

Article

No one I loved had ever wounded me so deeply

Grieving the Reality of a Marriage

Liz Wann

4 min read time

Article

Discontent to Wait Out Our Time

The command to cultivate and care for this world has not passed away.

Kaitlyn Schiess

3 min read time

Article

My atheist professors were normal people and somehow that made it worse.

Searching for answers beyond reason.

Joseph Honescko

3 min read time

Article

I was born homeless

My Pursuit of Home

Jon Aleixo

3 min read time

Article

The Art of Restlessness

We should feel the restlessness of a world that is awaiting redemption.

Lindsey Johnson Edwards

2 min read time

Article

You Are Valued

A review of The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God’s Rich Vision for Humanity by Daniel Darling

Nicholas Davis

4 min read time

Article

Making Peace with Worry

Aid for Other Anxious People Like Me

Austin Bonds

3 min read time

Article

Under New Management

An excerpt from Walk With Me

Jenny McGill

2 min read time