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I’m not praying for healing.

Why I Didn’t Stand Up at Church Last Sunday

Nancy Myers Rust

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Issue 31

Article

The (Successful) Pursuit of God

Family, Work, Ministry, and the Ghost of A.W. Tozer

Sarah Bessey

6 min read time

Article

The Sins of Our Fathers

Lenny was absolutely convinced there was some ontological difference between humans with pale pigmentation and those with dark.

Russell L. Meek

6 min read time

Article

Denim and Reputation

It’s no easy task to teach our kids how to be in the world but not of it.

Myra Dempsey

2 min read time

Article

A Little Willingness to See

Marilynne Robinson and Gilead

Emily Lund

5 min read time

Article

This Lying Survivor

Frank E. Peretti and Evangelical Fears About False Abuse Allegations

R.L. Stollar

7 min read time

Article

Repenting for the Actions of Another

Harry Ward and Eugenics

Violet Johnicker

5 min read time

Article

Billy Graham’s Father God

How can we separate truth from the zeitgeist of generation?

Krispin Mayfield, LPC

5 min read time

Article

My Husband, my Support, my Love.

My church said no, but God said yes.

Deborah Kabwang

2 min read time

Article

The Faith and Humanity of Martin Scorsese

As the world prepares itself for the next Martin Scorsese film, there will surely be much philosophizing on the legacy the director has cultivated.

Josh Matejka

3 min read time

Article

As Yourself

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

3 min read time

Article

A Thanksgiving Blessing

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

2 min read time

Article

Firstfruits and First Drafts

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

4 min read time

Article

Empty

Part 2 of a series on Embodiment.

Ash Parsons

7 min read time

Article

The Irrational Season

A story about a boy, a girl, and a church

John Blase

6 min read time

Article

Here and There

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

1 min read time

Article

Perfect.

adj. having all the required or desirable elements, things just as they should be.

Ash Parsons

6 min read time

Article

Life Verses

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

3 min read time

Article

California

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

Finite

Sketches

Rachel Joy Welcher

2 min read time

Article

Winter Birds and Brother Bourdain

Keep track of yourself

John Blase

4 min read time

Article

Invisible Labor

Karl Barth’s Affair and the Invisible Labor of Women

Kaitlyn Schiess

7 min read time

Article

U.N.I.T.Y.

The (Dis)content

Aarik Danielsen

3 min read time

Article

My Great-Great-Grandfather, the Slave Owner

Maybe it wasn’t a secret. But it certainly was not a point of pride.

Brandon J. O’Brien

7 min read time

Poem

Still

A poem

Brad Larson

0 min read time

Poem

Will You Still Love Me?

A poem

Evan Welcher

1 min read time

Article

A Father’s Shadow

I was asked to stand in front of my church so that my sin would be made known.

Andrea Burke

4 min read time

Article

The Heavens to Betsy

You never know when a storm is coming.

Betsy Johnson

8 min read time

Article

Honoring the Mind

The Relationships and Struggles of Dorothy L. Sayers

Mary Sue Daoud

3 min read time

Poem

Icy Adversary

A poem

Micaela Warren

2 min read time

Article

Christians and Sexuality

God has a beautiful vision for the gifts of our bodies and for the gift of sexual expression.

Rachel Gilson

6 min read time

Article

Befriending Mary Jane

Mary was dying from a cancer that causes your bones to fracture from the inside out.

Liz Charlotte Grant

7 min read time

Article

Confessions of a Medical School Dropout

For most of my life, I looked like the girl who had it all together.

Meg Rodriguez

3 min read time

Poem

Our First Time Driving Through Oklahoma

A poem

Peter Spaulding

1 min read time

Poem

The Gardener

A poem

Grace Shaw

1 min read time

Article

I'm made In His Image too

If God grieves over unborn life, then surely he grieves over all his creation.

Joylanda Jamison

3 min read time

Article

America, free my people!

Conversations about race are common in our house.

Walter P. Suza

5 min read time