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Tension
NAIL Why did you pound me into wood, which sent shockwaves through me? I am held here captive between splinters and grain. WOOD Why did...
Jennifer Carnell
Mar 24, 20231 min read


Abolition as the Logic of Care: A Comparative Study
Over the past few years, incited in part by our national response to the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade and the 2020...
Ben Kercheval
Mar 24, 202317 min read


To Forgive a Psych Ward Doctor
It was 2018. I had already ridden a terrible wave of bipolar up and down many times. Between strained friendships, familial frustrations,...
Owen Saarinen
Mar 24, 20237 min read


Graceful Dissent
Then a prayer circle formed around me, praying my doubts would go away… Throughout middle and high school, I was closely involved in a...
Ian Gullickson
Mar 24, 202314 min read


Seeing Red: How Jesus’ Blood Speaks to Political Anger
It’s October 2020, and my insides are on fire. There are people on the news saying things that God hates, and it makes me so mad that I...
Olivia Cannon
Mar 24, 20238 min read


The Pain of Forgiveness in Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant
[Editor’s Note: This analysis of how a Christian message of forgiveness can be found in unlikely places should not be taken as Between...
Ben Dreblow
Mar 24, 20235 min read


Creation Story
In the beginning, there was the Word. The word created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over...
Natalie Dalea
Oct 7, 202210 min read


It's a Devil Eat Devil World
“Everybody wants this. Everybody wants to be us.” - Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada [Note: This is a review of the film, The...
Emily Schoenbeck
Oct 7, 20224 min read


Engineering as Art
The tragic divorce of the STEM fields and the humanities was first documented in 1959 in C.P. Snow's seminal essay The Two Cultures and...
Collin Smith
Oct 7, 20229 min read


Scientist and Christian: Is All Work Worship?
What is the value of my colored pencil drawing of tall thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana var. virginiana) that hangs on my living room...
Rebekah Mohn
Oct 7, 20227 min read


The Doors of Life
On the precipice of the future, I glanced into the past; aware of all that had been which could not last. Moving into the realm of...
Casey Garner
Oct 7, 20223 min read


Rooted
When you fell, you rejoiced at becoming new, but my roots cannot fill the crater you leave. You didn’t see how birds and beasts were...
Jennifer Carnell
Mar 27, 20222 min read


My Gardening Mind
I recently read an article by Arthur Brooks which contends that cultivating multiple interests and doing different kinds of activities,...
Andrew Hansen
Mar 27, 202210 min read

On Food as Slowing:Enacting and participating in shalom through the breaking of bread
In our current cultural moment, where speed, efficiency, and distraction are immanent, can food be a way to slow to the pace that allows...
Bekah Schulz
Mar 26, 20228 min read


A City and Hunger that Never Sleep
To be in need is one of our most human traits; we come into this world in incredible need, and we leave in incredible need. As infants,...
Ashlyn Heise
Mar 26, 20228 min read


Hungering for Love
[Note: This is a review of the film, Phantom Thread, and includes spoilers for plot points throughout the film.] Love nourishes. Love...
Emily Schoenbeck
Mar 26, 20224 min read


Faith and Country Music
Songwriter Harlan Howard once described country music as “three chords and the truth.”1 Today, country music is often discounted as...
Emmey Harris
Mar 26, 20226 min read


Shabbat Shalom for All
In the beginning God created, said, made, called, placed, and blessed all He made. And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and...
Ashlyn Heise
Oct 13, 20217 min read


Journalistic Objectivity Through a Christian Lens
In tumultuous times, the mission of the media should be to stand as a beacon of understanding, through factual knowledge, as well as an...
Katie Salai
Oct 13, 20217 min read


Overpass
Synthetic smoke carried up over a concrete river, walking on the bridge overhead, recalling the taste of speed. Passing boats in passing...
Emily Heilman
Oct 12, 20211 min read
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