Faith • Liturgical Reflections
Windows into Waiting
Contributors from all over America reflect on the theme of longing and silence in their experiences of the Advent season.
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Faith • Biblical Reflections
The Silent Struggle: Grappling with God through Infertility
My leg bounced nervously as we sat in the waiting room at the fertility clinic for the first time. I gripped my husband’s hand harder, hoping for strength and comfort from his grasp. What would they find? Should my husband come back to the room with me? What would we have to do to be...
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Faith • Biblical Reflections
Missio on Grumbling: Reframing the Mundane
Walk into the office, ask my supervisor how I can help today, get a long list of tasks ranging from papers to file, emails to return, excel spreadsheets to create, and then after a few minutes of small talk, go to my isolated office, sit down at my desk, and get to work on my...
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Culture • Popular Culture
Fighting Life’s Small Battles with Wendell Berry
It seems for most of my life that I’ve been surrounded by friends who are superhero movie connoisseurs. While I find these movies to be entertaining and impressively produced, I am often left wanting. I fail to see how I can relate to men and women with unhuman-like abilities who are constantly pitted against all-powerful...
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