Rachel Sturges

Love Bombing

Rachel Sturges looks into the lives of a fisherman’s daughters.

Mark Powell

Prayer Life

Mark Powell considers marriage, guilt, and designer chocolate milk.

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Katie Karnehm-Esh

Peacock

Katie Karnehm-Esh works toward a complicated yoga pose while also coming to peace with her divorce.

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Jonathan Hiskes

Holden Village Journal

Sunday We are on the boat, our family, barreling north into a sea of granite peaks. Before us spreads the gleaming surface of Lake Chelan, a fifty-one-mile gash cutting deep into the Cascade Mountains. To our right, the eastern foothills flow by, sun-browned in the August heat. They lie hulking like knuckles on a fist. […]

John Schweiker Shelton, Kristopher Norris

Reclaiming Christian Marriage: What the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) Needs to Learn from the Southern Baptists

On June 19, 2014, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted to allow their pastors to perform “same-gender marriages in civil jurisdictions where such marriages are legal.”[1] As expected, this has caused no small hubbub among American Christians. While gay rights advocates and Christians on the left have lauded this progressive decision and praised the denomination for […]

Nicholas Olson

Certified Copy and the Tension between Fidelity and Authenticity

The Filmwell landscape is well populated with Certified Copy posts (like the wonderful meditations found here and here). And it seems appropriate that this film is considered and reconsidered at this site. As a new contributing writer, I almost feel as if offering a post on this Kiarostami is like a rite of passage into […]