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Dividing and uniting our network of meaning
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Issue 38
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God in the Active Voice

God doesn't use passive voice in the Bible's stories of sexual assault and we shouldn't either.
Linda L. Kruschke
4 min read time
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Christianēse | Faith-Based Movies

The latest from the Fathom Podcast considers the Christian cinema past, present, and future.
Drew Fitzgerald
0 min read time
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“Have I been saved?”

It would be easy to deconstruct my original conversion narrative but it won’t let me go.
Stephen Kamm
5 min read time
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Of Walls and Whispers

Embracing Emotion as a Messenger of the Soul
Sarah E. Westfall
4 min read time
Article

Your Witness Is Showing

Speak, post, debate, protest, and vote, but do so with your allegiance to Christ on full display.
Collin Huber
4 min read time
Article

The Liturgy of the Hike

A reminder of having loved and been greatly loved in return.
Donna McKinney
5 min read time
Article

We do nothing.

And somehow, there at the end of ourselves is Jesus.
Courtney Ellis
5 min read time
Article

This name is my promise to you.

How the world perceives our family will have much to do with how we talk about it.
Dani Nichols
4 min read time
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“I’m Fine. Really.”

Everything is not fine. We know that instinctively.
Liz Rasley
3 min read time
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Words are too easy.

Our words are being redeemed with the rest of creation.
Elizabeth Ziegler
3 min read time
Article

Clean Lips

The Complexity, Power, and Potential of Religious Language
Valerie Hobbs
4 min read time
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Speaking Disney

“We should have gone to Disney World. There you can see Europe and eat anytime.”
Abigail Dunlap
3 min read time
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Speaking Grief

I don't know if we'll ever be able to speak grief.
Krysti Wilkinson
4 min read time
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Hi, I’m the Preacher’s Daughter

How I exploited the label.
Marnie Hammar
3 min read time
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One thing I know, that I know nothing.

Learning marriage and learning Greek aren't all that different.
Leigh Ann Hyde
5 min read time
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In Defense of a Cliché

"Doing life together" doesn't sound so bad to me.
Preston Byrd
3 min read time
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Dancing with Almighty God

A new lifestyle of prayer
Marianne Abel-Lipschutz
6 min read time
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All Saints: Thelonious Monk

The (Dis)content
Aarik Danielsen
4 min read time
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All Saints: Mike Birbiglia

The (Dis)content
Aarik Danielsen
4 min read time
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All Saints: Bono

The (Dis)content
Aarik Danielsen
5 min read time
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When Babies Giggle at Funerals

Sketches
Rachel Joy Welcher
2 min read time
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All Saints: Franz Wright

The (Dis)content
Aarik Danielsen
6 min read time
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All Saints: Cloud of Witnesses

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

A Lamentation: "A Fool's Gold"

A Poem
Annaleta Nichols
1 min read time
Poem

The Third Way

A Poem
Jessica Hooten Wilson
1 min read time
Poem

And I Weep

A Poem
Donna B. McKinney
1 min read time
Poem

Presence

A Poem
Jillian Hazel
2 min read time
Poem

The Nail Salon on Second Avenue

A Poem
Audrey Elledge
2 min read time
Poem

the taunting of The Purple Chrysanthemum With The Golden Center

A Poem
Rachel Michelle Collier
0 min read time
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Jesus, Peacemakers, and Public Witness

An excerpt from Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley
Esau McCaulley
5 min read time
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Spotify Playlist | Language

A soundtrack for reading this issue.
Aarik Danielsen
0 min read time
Poem

You’re playing with fire, he said

A Poem
Sara Kay Mooney
1 min read time
Article

Beg them to stay.

Christians have a place at public universities.
Ann O'Malley
4 min read time
Article

Ode to Dissonance

Somewhere in the imperfection the music still sounds beautiful
Lan-Vy Ngo
2 min read time
Poem

The Road to Damascus

A Poem
Ronnie Sirmans
1 min read time
Poem

The Weight of a Minute

A Poem
Abigail Rudibaugh
1 min read time
Poem

Breath My Only Boundary

A Poem
Christine Prater
1 min read time
Poem

Garden

A Poem
Naomi Pattison-Williams
2 min read time
Poem

Mess

A Poem
Misty Hendrick
2 min read time
Article

The Holy Revolution of the Reality of God

The Way Up Is Down: Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself by Marlena Graves The Way Up Is Down: Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself by Marlena Graves
Aarik Danielsen
4 min read time
Poem

Sisters

A Poem
Amber Crafton
1 min read time
Poem

Prayer Language

A Poem
Aarik Danielsen
1 min read time
Article

A Vocabulary of Delight

The Persistent Optimism of Wayne Thiebaud
Amy Hetletvedt
3 min read time
Article

Poetry as Violence.

Sometimes we need to destroy the ordinary.
Ann Thomas
5 min read time
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Serenity Now

A Parenting Prayer
Dan Hislop
6 min read time
Article

I play a note.

Finding the Five senses at The Piano
Martha Hepler
2 min read time
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A Kaleidoscopic Voice

Remote communication between the Deaf and the hearing reflect God in his word.
Tianna Haas
2 min read time
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