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Claiming Crowns

I don’t need to rid myself of everything that interests and enthralls me in order for God to fill me up.

Nancy Rust

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 51

Article

Santa Comes to the Sub-Sahara

In Ghana’s Upper Region, we weren’t quite off the grid, but we teetered on its spartan extremity.

Tim Gustafson

5 min read time

Short Story

“My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord”

Mary’s Song in Scripture and the Church

Amy Peeler

17 min read time

Article

God and Lizards. Sex and the Incarnation.

The Incarnation is the focal place for understanding who God is and our own identity as male and female.

John Dyer

9 min read time

Article

Guiding Lights for Advent

The Three Advent Resources Our Editor in Chief is Using This Year

Kelsey Hency

2 min read time

Article

Advent and Christmas Reading List

The best of Fathom writers on the coming of the Christ

Fathom Contributors

2 min read time

Article

“This is God! I hate you! Everyone hates you!”

My stepson’s psychosis taught me that the steadfast love of God never ceases.

Barry Smith

5 min read time

Article

Every Time I Utter The Shema

The call to worship that we preach to ourselves and that we preach to one another with one voice.

Tammy Priest

4 min read time

Article

I wasn't summiting emotional mountains.

The Christian journey seldom skips straight from indifference to intimacy.

Ben Christenson

4 min read time

Article

Undergoing Affirmation

With every reading I'm committing myself in public to a truth.

James Tynen

6 min read time

Article

Things Too Wonderful

I can’t comprehend God in a way that makes me feel in control.

Joseph Bentz

5 min read time

Article

Tactile work reminds me of redemption.

Callie Stevens

4 min read time

Article

Some Gifts Wait For You

I decided to paint again—in my fifties.

Lisa Anne Tindal

4 min read time

Poem

Liturgy

Michelle DiSarno

2 min read time

Article

The War Song of Mary

A battle cry for the generations.

Caroline Smiley

6 min read time

Poem

View from an Airplane Window

Is this what we look like to God?

Greg Coles

1 min read time

Poem

A Prayer for the Weary

An excerpt from "Sometimes Women Lie About Being Okay" by Rachel Joy Welcher

Rachel Joy Welcher

1 min read time

Article

Is this the weirdest story in the Bible?

Watch our video of Carmen Joy Imes explaining the purpose and meaning of the Bridegroom of Blood.

Carmen Joy Imes and Jonathan Minnema

1 min read time

Poem

The Conversation

Thomas Allbaugh

2 min read time

Poem

Game Time

Shaun Anthony McMichael

2 min read time

Poem

Publishing Perishing

Linda McCullough Moore

1 min read time

Poem

Mary Oliver

Elizabeth Hamilton

1 min read time

Article

The Contours of Compassion

I can still see her beautiful brown eyes, full of fear as she fought to breathe.

Elizabeth Lyvers

5 min read time

Article

Blessed Unrest

Life and art are hard and demanding. Neither are to be entered into lightly.

Betsy Johnson

7 min read time

Article

Welcome to my closet.

Being the safe place for questions and conversations with same-sex attracted people is an overwhelming honor.

Brenna Blain and Pieter Valk

6 min read time

Article

Excerpt from

Taken from Chapter 21, "The Birth of Jesus"

Russ Ramsey

3 min read time

Poem

Excerpts from

Three poems based on Luke chapter 2

Drew Jackson

1 min read time