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Is There Room Enough For Both of Us?
He takes up the whole flipping bed. It didn’t occur to me that this might be a problem before we got married.
Read More »Art & Failure: Why the Two Go Together
I love it when my students succeed, but I also love watching them fail.
Read More »We Are Not Called to Be Relevant: An Easter Post
Very few churches will lead the American spiritual consumer this weekend.
Read More »The Cost of Creating
Scott McClellan [Prodigal Magazine]
7 Cures for a Quarter Life Crisis
Hearing twenty-somethings talk about going through a Quarter Life Crisis can feel like such a joke, until you’re experiencing one yourself.
Read More »Letting Go of Excuses
There are no good excuses for not bringing to life the ideas born in our hearts.
Read More »What Did They Say Now?
Join a conversation that explores a variety of topics from a Christian-faith perspective but without all the plastic answers you might expect.
Read More »Our First Year
Allison Vesterfelt [Start Marriage Right]
Recently my husband and I celebrated our first anniversary. It surprised me how momentous it felt.
Read More »Point of Origin
Scott McClellan [SheLoves Magazine]
In the aftermath of a fire, one might find the pine needles of a tree pointing in a given direction, and as it turns out this is the opposite... Read More »
Transforming Your Anxiety: Anxiety and Your Story
My mom’s breast cancer had been a part of my life since I was six, and it had been aggressively been building a mountain of anxiety in my life.
Read More »Here Come the Radicals!
Matthew Lee Anderson [Christianity Today]
Their inflated rhetoric is a sign of how divorced our churches’ vocabulary is from the simple language of Scripture.
Read More »Your Path to Publication: What Life After Art Might Have Looked Like
Today, you’ll get to see what Life After Art could have looked like…
Read More »Why the Term “Social Media” No Longer Works
As weird as it may sound, we’re getting a sense of who Social Media is as a person.
Read More »Mindfulness — Presence and Curiosity in Conversation
Make a conscious effort each day to be curious in your life and in the lives of others.
Read More »Coloring Inside the Lines
God created constraints and limitations—and called them “good” That’s the lesson we didn’t learn as third graders,
Read More »Learning How To Doubt
Carson Nyquist [Prodigal Magazine]
Faith built upon memorized theology is consistent. It gives answers and formulas for every area of life.
Read More »Death as a Communal Event
Death to many has a finality to everything of life, despite the acute obsessions with the after life.
Read More »Marijuana, Coffee, and Our Medicated Age
Sloth and overwork are symptoms of the same diseased understanding of how we labor.
Read More »The Secret to Telling a Great Story Is Living One
Every night, I would go to bed and my dad would tell me the same thing: Some day, you’ll have stories of your own to tell.
Read More »Marriage is Lonely
When I was twenty and single, the one thing I knew for sure about marriage was that, when I got married, I wouldn’t be lonely.
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