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Nature always wins.

But tonight I blanketed my horse.

Dani Nichols

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 29

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Praying Beyond the Prayer Card

Are our prayers for our children only American, middle-class dreams for kids, proof-texted and baptized in Christianese?

Abigail Murrish

4 min read time

Article

Of Monsters and Walls

I am the monster at the end of this book?

Jennifer Hildebrand

2 min read time

Article

Insider Church Planting

Are there advantages when a church planter already knows the city?

Elisa Crawley

7 min read time

Article

Learning About All the Light in the Middle Ages

The unexpected response of a Protestant to the ministry of St. Francis of Assisi

Chantelle Brawley

4 min read time

Article

Seeds want to grow.

I’m knees to the ground again with fingernails coated in the dust to which I’ll return one day, asking God to remind me how to be faithful.

Andrea Burke

3 min read time

Article

Bending Witness Into Action

A review of Beating Guns by Shane Claiborne and Michael Martin

Aarik Danielsen

5 min read time

Article

The New Mestiza

I am Mexican and I am American

Nancy Reyes Frazier

6 min read time

Article

When Loss Has a Name

Hope and Forgiveness for in the Post-Abortive Experience

Ashley Anthony

5 min read time

Article

A Daughter’s Worth

Rise, church. Reclaim your daughters’ worth.

Cynthia C. Hester

5 min read time

Article

That’s the thing about grief.

The DMV is usually an annoyance. Not a traumatic event.

Kasey Johnson

5 min read time

Article

What happens when Purity Culture is a tool for abusers?

According to my dad, I was toxic. I was damaged goods. I was shame.

Jennifer Michelle Greenberg

5 min read time

Article

Running Routes

We wipe our noses with the backs of our sleeves.

Sandee Finley

4 min read time

Article

I want to believe.

Can I answer the question that followed me to India?

Laura Phillipson

5 min read time

Article

Looters be Damned

My grandmother’s dementia can’t steal my memories.

Drew Brown

11 min read time

Article

Where the Outside Ends

Twelve years—that’s how long a story of cancer can tumble on

Pierce Taylor Hibbs

2 min read time

Article

Lovely in Every Way

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

God's Infinite Setlist

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

3 min read time

Article

Songs about Jane (and us).

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

3 min read time

Article

Where I Am

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

Dead Man Talking

A conversation with now-deceased poet Jim Harrison

John Blase

4 min read time

Article

Not-Pregnant Musings (Part II)

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

Steps of Faith

Good News: The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

I Love You

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

A Stream that Leads to the Gate and Beyond

Reflections on life and Costco

John Blase

5 min read time

Article

But what do I say?

A series of stories on reaching the nations represented in this one.

Thomas Chew and Evelyn Eng

9 min read time

Poem

Prayer of Abundance

A Poem

Maggie Swofford

1 min read time

Article

The heart is a drum.

A reflection of finding embedded truth and the story that inspired it.

Liza Moore

7 min read time

Poem

Backyard Theology

A Poem

Timothy Kleiser

1 min read time

Article

Keeping it Complicated

A review of Fallen Mountains by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Emily Enger

4 min read time

Article

Greeting Spider-Man with a Holy Kiss

Knowing and welcoming every member of the church body

Valerie Catrow

3 min read time

Article

A Desperate Distance from the Kingdom of Heaven

Dwelling on the moments when death enters life.

Jamie Carlson

4 min read time

Article

The B-Word

Good News: The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

Not-Pregnant Musings

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

Good News: Into the Light

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

Chicory

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

Good News: Enemy of My People

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

Mr. Jones and Me

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

3 min read time

Article

Moments That Disarm

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

The Summer of Magical Longing

The good hurt of time’s ineffable passing

John Blase

4 min read time

Article

Dad Rock Redemption

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

Helplessness Blues

A review of In Search of the Common Good by Jake Meador

Tommy Welty

6 min read time

Poem

Scavengers

A Poem

Sarah L. Yoon

1 min read time

Article

John Wick 3: Parabellum

A Storyboard podcast

Storyboard

1 min read time

Poem

Longterm Investment Strategy

A Poem

Courtney Beck

1 min read time

Poem

A Year of Jubilee

A Poem

Grace J. Humbles

1 min read time

Article

Living an Irresistible Faith

A review of Scott Saul’s book Irresistible Faith.

John Thomas

3 min read time

Article

Jesus, Wine, and Me

I’ve had a complicated relationship with wine.

John Thomas

4 min read time

Article

The Bible has nothing to say about this.

One pastors interpretation of the voice of God for today.

Joshua Pease

7 min read time

Poem

Artificial Rain

A Poem

R.P.M. Cotonethal

1 min read time

Article

Climbing to Everest to Leave it Behind

Everest Base Camp can only be reached on foot or by helicopter.

Josh Downing

6 min read time

Article

A Mountain Worthy of the Name

Finding fear of the Lord in the landscape.

Jillian Hazel

3 min read time

Article

I’m so glad our vows kept us.

Heaven is listening. Angels are here.

Jennie Cesario

5 min read time

Poem

Southern Box Turtle

A Poem

Julie Sumner

1 min read time

Article

Fragments of a Month

Your eyes, they sparkle with buoyant wonder, as a hundred thousand snowflakes silently fall.

Ryan Gray

2 min read time

Article

Keeper of the Songs

I tend to think about memory and history in terms of my history or my memory.

Davis Finley

5 min read time

Article

She Wears a Superhero Suit

A Homeless Woman Reveals the Wonder of God’s Creation

Ethel Gould

3 min read time

Article

Ableism Among Us

My anatomy has always been my enemy, but it has never been the toughest enemy to fight.

Lindsey Edwards

5 min read time