Poem

Golem on Ash Wednesday

A Lenten Poem

Tommy Welty

Deeply Curious

Fathom wants to sink deeply into the Christian faith. And we think curiosity and conversation are just the things to draw us into the depths. We ask questions, express wonder, linger over ideas, listen to opinions, and hear people’s stories. Come on in. The water’s fine.

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Issue 25

Article

A Sacred Thing in Ordinary Skin

We covered his body over that day with prayers and dirt, planting his shell in the land that raised him.

Jenna Brack

3 min read time

Article

Second Wife, Second Life

This is our first and only life, our one aim is to be found faithful in it.

Lore Ferguson Wilbert

5 min read time

Article

Misplaced, but Never Lost

A Review of The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

Why Remembering the Past is No Laughing Matter

What is Black History Month?

Alyssa Gossom

3 min read time

Article

Goodness and Laughter Follow Me All the Days of His Life

What my Australian Shepherd taught me about life and laughter

Sarah Cozart

5 min read time

Article

The Joke’s on Me

I cannot laugh at the world and participate in it at the same time.

Kelsey Gould

2 min read time

Article

Why Finding the Funny is Good for Our Hearts and Souls

We Crave Laughter

Karen Katulka

3 min read time

Article

Outtakes and Outrage

Play areas really don’t need bouncers.

Mark Blitch

4 min read time

Article

Traversing into Terra Incognita

I Speak Two Languages

Tina Osterhouse

7 min read time

Article

Mind Maps

A review of The State of the Evangelical Mind

Tommy Welty

5 min read time

Article

I Could See Dad Sitting out on the Front Porch

An excerpt from K. Pastore’s Good Blood

K. Pastore

2 min read time

Article

The Audible Hope of an Easter Laugh

A little known tradition in Orthodoxy

Troy B. Cady

4 min read time

Article

When God Gives More Than a Miracle

A review of Grace in the Valley by Heath Adamson

Ashley Anthony

4 min read time

Article

When the Time to Weep is the Time to Laugh

My mother died in September 2014, six weeks after her liver cancer diagnosis.

Jeannie Prinsen

3 min read time

Article

Hymns for the Druggie Party Kids

How God Showed Up Everywhere I Least Expected When I Needed Him Most

Brenda Kay Zylstra

4 min read time

Article

History Loves Company

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

Loosen Up

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

Goodbye, Norma Jean

The (Dis)content

3 min read time

Article

Airport Side Hugs

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Poem

First Grade Feminist

A poem

Laura Kauffman

1 min read time

Poem

Lately, Now and Then

A poem

John Blasé

1 min read time

Article

Glass

A Storyboard podcast

Storyboard

1 min read time

Poem

Meridian

A poem

Julie Sumner

1 min read time

Poem

Laughter

For Gabriella

Ryan Gray

1 min read time

Poem

What We Were

A poem

Laura Kauffman

1 min read time

Poem

Naming the Animals

A poem

Allie Bullivant

1 min read time

Poem

Summer Poem

A poem

Kristen Rudd

0 min read time

Article

Laughter and Words

I consciously laugh quieter in public because of what she said to me.

Stephanie Nelson

3 min read time

Article

Fiction Is More like Rapelling

A Q&A with K. Pastore about her new book Good Blood

K. Pastore

3 min read time

Poem

Towards the Sunset

A poem

Danielle Pollock

0 min read time

Article

Laughter as Grace

As a comedian, it’s my job to be funny.

Ben Fort

2 min read time