October 29, 2018 / Theology
Vincent Lloyd meditates on what the maligned figure of the black father can teach us about God.
Vincent Lloyd
October 29, 2018 / Theology
October 29, 2018 / Theology
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Jonathan Hiskes
May 14, 2018 / Praxis
May 14, 2018 / Praxis
Jonathan Hiskes writes that we cannot control the tender moments of a child’s first year—we can only bear witness.
Rachel Pieh Jones
February 20, 2018 / Praxis
February 20, 2018 / Praxis
Rachel Jones has to choose between her children as she examines the realities of raising children in challenging places.
Hollis Phelps
September 2, 2015 / Perspective
September 2, 2015 / Perspective
This essay draws on Judith Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure to discuss the relationship between queerness and children.
David A. Garner
July 17, 2015 / From the Editor
July 17, 2015 / From the Editor
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from …
Brett Foster
May 28, 2013 / Creative Writing
May 28, 2013 / Creative Writing
In a weary admonition, the narrator of “Luke 13:30: Tired Application” instructs us to be watchful at the end of days, to look with grim hope at the “One coming who’s casting out devils, making the blind see.”
Meredith Kunsa
May 13, 2013 / Creative Writing
May 13, 2013 / Creative Writing
Meredith Kunsa’s prose poem retells the memory of a Pentecostal service where her grandmother, “jabbering in a voice” she cannot understand, gives a command that both haunts Kunsa and compels her to conclude that there is no Jesus in her, that “I’m not who I think I am.”
Chad Gusler
March 20, 2012 / Creative Writing
March 20, 2012 / Creative Writing
In the days when our courthouse was being built, a mason—we don’t know who—came to …
Robert Joustra
March 15, 2011 / Perspective
March 15, 2011 / Perspective
If there’s no feast for this appetite No reason in nursery rhymes Why can’t I …