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So this is what my body is for.

What happened when my body became the new plaything
Myra Dempsey
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Issue 28
Article

The Fruitful Tension of Paradox

A review of Jen Pollock Michel’s Surprised by Paradox: The Promise of "And" in an Either-Or World
Laura Lundgren
4 min read time
Article

One Last Name

I had been researching to exhaustion, trying to find the names of the teenage boys who raped me repeatedly when I was five years old.
Mary DeMuth
6 min read time
Article

Body on Trial, Judge Unnamed

the skin part of me is looking for places to hide
Deanna Briody
9 min read time
Article

Clare and I

I am a woman who is called to minister in the church.
Jen Manglos
2 min read time
Article

Taught by a Woman

I, a woman, taught a Bible study full of men.
Lindsey Johnson Edwards
4 min read time
Article

The Birth of Brawn

This is the stuff of God.
Pierce Taylor Hibbs
3 min read time
Article

Terrible Grace

Five full bottles of used syringes clutter our bathroom floor.
Hannah Comerford
3 min read time
Article

When the Brain Betrays the Body

I just wanted the anxiety to stop.
Rebecca Carrell
4 min read time
Article

The World Tree

A Review of The Overstory, My Favorite Trees, and Bodily Resurrection
Tommy Welty
5 min read time
Article

Thinness is Next to Godliness

It Takes Body and Soul to Make A Person
Amanda Martinez Beck
5 min read time
Article

The Great I AND

An excerpt from Jen Pollock Michel’s Surprised by Paradox: The Promise of "And" in an Either-Or World
Jen Pollock Michel
5 min read time
Article

Body Breaking

Why do you push yourself so hard?
Kristen Rudd
4 min read time
Article

Exclusionary Faith

My straight-edge personality, punk-persona, Hindu faith, and brown skin kept me at the margins of a white Christian public high school.
Radha Vyas
5 min read time
Article

Sick and Homeless

A testimonial
Chasity Strawder
3 min read time
Article

Rest(less)

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
2 min read time
Article

Between Them

A proper introduction
John Blase
4 min read time
Article

Exhale

Poetry illustrations
Maggie Swofford
1 min read time
Article

Sweet Corn

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
2 min read time
Article

Talking Over My Head

The (Dis)content
Aarik Danielsen
4 min read time
Article

Holy, holy, holy

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
2 min read time
Article

The Secret Lives of All of Us

The place between hold-it-all-in and get-it-all-out
John Blase
4 min read time
Article

Jesus in the Present Tense

The (Dis)content
Aarik Danielsen
3 min read time
Article

The Best Is Yet To Come

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
2 min read time
Article

Foolish Flowers

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
2 min read time
Article

Death and Cured Pork

A new column featuring John Blase
John Blase
3 min read time
Article

Notes From My Old Survival Guide

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
1 min read time
Article

The Naked Truth

The (Dis)content
Aarik Danielsen
4 min read time
Article

Benefit of the Doubt

The (Dis)content
Aarik Danielsen
4 min read time
Article

Is it a poem?

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
2 min read time
Article

The High Cost of Advocacy

I Fought Sexual Abuse in the Church as a Friend of Survivors
Carol Shelton
4 min read time
Article

Church Bells

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
2 min read time
Article

Scar Tissue

I bear on my body the marks of my affliction.
Russ Ramsey
7 min read time
Article

About That Time I Cried in a Superhero Movie

What are we willing to risk to protect the future for those we love?
Collin Huber
6 min read time
Article

Thirty-three

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
2 min read time
Article

No Comparison

The (Dis)content
Aarik Danielsen
3 min read time
Article

My Body Keeps Every Score

Yes, my body carried the scars of trauma, but it also carried the unseverable connections to the history and identity
Stephanie Tait
5 min read time
Article

The Power of the Table

An excerpt from Less of More: Pursuing Spiritual Abundance in a World of Never Enough by Chris Nye
Chris Nye
4 min read time
Article

How Mindfulness Benefits our Bodies

An unpublished “bonus track” from Dr. Charles Stone’s Holy Noticing: The Bible, Your Brain, and The Mindful Space Between Moments
Dr. Charles Stone
5 min read time
Article

Where do we go when our bodies betray us?

For years I’ve hated my body for how it betrays me.
Joshua Pease
4 min read time
Article

Who Am I If the Most Productive Part of My Day Is Making My Bed?

My Sudden Crash
Katie Crosby
3 min read time
Poem

Dogwood Branches

A poem
Evan Welcher
1 min read time
Article

Too Pretty to Throw Away

How could life flourish in such weakness?
Sarah Cozart
4 min read time
Article

Not Pregnant, Just Fat

I am honoring God with my body.
Sarah Cottrell
3 min read time
Poem

The Jungle

A poem
Maggie Swofford
1 min read time
Poem

Word and Deed

A poem
Abigail Rudibaugh
0 min read time
Poem

Upon Overhearing Happiness at Bathtime

A poem
Adam Palumbo
1 min read time
Article

A Child Sees God

An unpublished “bonus track” from Jen Pollock Michel’s Surprised by Paradox: The Promise of "And" in an Either-Or World
Jen Pollock Michel
4 min read time
Poem

Tumbles Me

A poem
Lydia Hazel
1 min read time
Article

A Sermon Under the Pastures

An Interview with Nathan Poole
Seth Weick
13 min read time
Poem

As a girl

A poem
Sandee Finley
0 min read time
Article

As Thin as a Whisper

I’m a grown woman, still barely holding down triple-digit poundage, possessing that thigh gap at which you may have rolled your eyes.
Bec McNew
3 min read time
Article

Finding Resolutions

The Success of Avengers: Endgame
Tatyana Claytor
4 min read time
Poem

Body Parts

A poem
Troy Cady
1 min read time
Article

Theology of Tears

As an adult, I don’t cry as much, but I cry more often than I should.
Sarah Morrison
2 min read time
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