Article

Can I keep a deconstructed faith?

Maybe we all have to disentangle ourselves from the culture we’re in.

Hannah Comerford

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Issue 42

Article

Interview with the authors of The Great Sex Rescue

If we start talking about sex in a healthy way, it’s quite likely that women’s libidos will rise.

Rachel Joy Welcher

12 min read time

Article

Is having women in ministry really a recent invention?

What We’re Learning from Church History about Women in Public Ministry

Sandra Glahn

9 min read time

Short Story

“Maybe that is belief.”

I don’t even know if I believe in God some days. But I miss him.

Hallie Waugh

11 min read time

Article

I always questioned my mother’s love.

Until God’s love became the lens through which I reviewed my relationship with her.

Linda L. Kruschke

5 min read time

Article

Sunlight is a wonderful antiseptic.

Sitting alone in our distress was never God’s intent.

Courtney Ellis

4 min read time

Article

Is it really better to marry than burn with desire?

A lack of sexual stewardship is not a call to marriage.

Pieter Valk

8 min read time

Article

Choosing to Replant our Trees of Knowledge

Can I be wrong when so much depends on my being right?

Deborah Beddoe

6 min read time

Article

I draw a lily on my thumb.

Perhaps grace is what ties this whole thing together.

Audrey Elledge

3 min read time

Article

How do people with special needs fulfill the cultural mandate?

The same as you and me: by grace.

Julia Robertson

4 min read time

Article

Losing Our Illusions

The church isn’t perfect, but Jesus loves it. And so can we.

Nikki F. Thompson

6 min read time

Article

Happy (Spiritual) Fathers Day

We may have many spiritual fathers, including our biological father, that have nurtured our faith.

Pieter Valk

5 min read time

Article

Want to ruin your sex life? Read a Christian bestseller.

A bonus track from <i>The Great Sex Rescue</i>.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

4 min read time

Article

Christian Patriarchy Is Just Patriarchy

An excerpt from The Making of Biblical Womanhood.

Beth Allison Barr

4 min read time

Article

Fighting racism will take more than your prayers.

A review of How to Fight Racism by Jemar Tisby

Alyssa Gossom

4 min read time

Poem

Listens for Shadows

A poem

Ryan Ramsey

1 min read time

Poem

Hunting Guga

A poem

Christian Ward

1 min read time

Poem

Monday Morning Sermon

A poem

Sara Kay Mooney

1 min read time

Poem

Stoke

A poem

anna b.

1 min read time

Poem

Song of the Spheres

A poem

Peter Spaulding

1 min read time

Poem

Trá na Reilige

A Poem

Kayleen Gill

1 min read time

Poem

A Motherhood Redefined

A poem

Janelle Burkholder

1 min read time

Poem

Swimming at Dusk with my Sisters after Visiting the Hall of Fame, 1995

A poem

Allie Bullivant

1 min read time

Article

To whom shall we go?

Maybe I was already deconstructing.

Austin Bonds

4 min read time

Article

Spotify Playlist | Rethink

Aarik Danielsen

0 min read time

Article

Dangerous Business

Crossing the boundaries that would otherwise keep us sheltered and safe at home

Sarah Southern

3 min read time

Article

Quitting on Mt. Everest

I have to learn to live more purposefully in my present reality.

Ruth Buchanan

4 min read time

Article

New Christanēse Podcast Episodes

The Fathom Mag podcast you don’t want to miss.

Drew Fitzgerald

1 min read time

Article

The Roots of Zucchini and Pride

Unsuccessfully planting a vegetable garden that reminds me just how little I know and how little expertise I have.

Katie Walker

3 min read time