Jennifer Carnell
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...
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Ben Kercheval
Mar 23, 202317 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...
Owen Saarinen
Mar 23, 20237 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,...
Ian Gullickson
Mar 23, 202314 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...
Olivia Cannon
Mar 23, 20238 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...
Ben Dreblow
Mar 23, 20235 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...
Natalie Dalea
Oct 7, 202210 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...
Emily Schoenbeck
Oct 7, 20224 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...
Collin Smith
Oct 7, 20229 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...
Rebekah Mohn
Oct 7, 20227 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...
Casey Garner
Oct 7, 20223 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...
Jennifer Carnell
Mar 26, 20222 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...
Andrew Hansen
Mar 26, 202210 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,...
Bekah Schulz
Mar 26, 20228 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...
Ashlyn Heise
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,...
Emily Schoenbeck
Mar 26, 20224 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...
Emmey Harris
Mar 26, 20226 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...
Ashlyn Heise
Oct 13, 20217 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...
Katie Salai
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...
Emily Heilman
Oct 11, 20211 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...
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