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Acidhead: God Took Me Higher

I never could’ve reasoned or chanted or tripped my way into the absurd glory of the Gospel.

Ashley Lande

Deeply Curious

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Issue 43

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A Conversation with Courtney Ellis

Her newest book establishing a theology of play and playfulness.

Aarik Danielsen

9 min read time

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I believed God could intervene. But did he?

The choice to go home went from a coincidence to a miracle.

Elliot Ritzema

4 min read time

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Robot’s Progress

A review of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Micah Rickard

4 min read time

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I sidelined my professional career and mainlined spiritual growth.

In my fifties, I looked for a job for the first time in twenty-five years, and it was sobering.

Judy Allen

5 min read time

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Field Testing My Faith

I condemned Haiti until I surrendered to the hope commanded by servants who kept praying.

Marianne Abel-Lipschutz

6 min read time

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Felicitas—the fruitful—asked to die last.

“While I live, I shall defeat you; and if you kill me, in my death I shall defeat you all the more.”

Hannah Lang

3 min read time

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Conjuring the Colors of a Daydream

My imagination doesn’t elaborate unprompted.

Bec McNew

3 min read time

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Finding Faith and Mystery Out Emily Dickinson's Window

How a renowned poet became an unlikely catalyst with the unfathomable.

Timothy Jones

7 min read time

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Neuroscience approves of a Holy Imagination

The Polyvagal Theory can help show us how times of noticing beauty can reset our nervous systems for peace

Jenn Zatopek

8 min read time

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Finding Dependence Through Discipline

A review of Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted by Gretchen Ronnevik

Rachel Darnall

4 min read time

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Through The Fog

I was familiar with partial-yet-total knowledge.

Shelbi Gesch

3 min read time

Poem

Parking Lot Prophet

A poem

Lauren H. White

1 min read time

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Why So Serious?

An excerpt from Chapter 2 of <i>Happy Now: Let Playfulness Lift Your Load & Renew Your Spirit </i>by Courtney Ellis.

Courtney Ellis

11 min read time

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Loving, Leaving, and Forgiving the Orthodox Christian Church

It was time to move on, but we brought forgiveness with us.

Amanda Lewallen

5 min read time

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Spotify Playlist | Transcendence

Listening for your reading, or just living, pleasure.

Aarik Danielsen

0 min read time

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I don’t want to cry—not in front of her.

In the face of her vehement attack, my resolve should have buckled. But it didn’t.

Linda L. Kruschke

4 min read time

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Poetry Makes Us Young

Poetry provides us a means to access that sense of transcendence again.

Joseph Honescko

4 min read time

Poem

Capela dos Osos

A poem

Matthew J. Andrews

1 min read time

Poem

The measure of extinction

A poem

Karina Lutz

1 min read time

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It’s time to discuss our dysfunctional family dynamic.

For the Sake of our Queer Siblings

6 min read time

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Finding God in Fictional Stories

Authors read the general revelation and from it fashion something true.

Heather Morton

7 min read time

Poem

Wholly Spirit

A poem

Jody L. Collins

1 min read time

Poem

Bethseda

A poem

Mary Renee Jackson

0 min read time

Poem

Pray, Mantis

A poem

Ronnie Sirmans

1 min read time

Poem

On hearing Luke 5

A poem

Chandra Crane

1 min read time

Poem

Peonies

A poem

Joey Goodall

1 min read time

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I Saw Them as Glorious

Irises, Halos, and Beyoncé helped me see the goodness of God through my grief.

Bill Melone

5 min read time

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Transcendence isn’t achieved through constant striving.

Humility takes us higher.

Michelle Stiffler

5 min read time