Search
- Mar 21
- 11 min
A Line in the Sand
By Lauren Heck | Essay | The beach is hot, my skin feels the burning of the sun, I am dehydrated, and with every step I take a gust of wind
- Jan 15
- 16 min
On Raising Savages: Let's Pretend
By Kris Green | Series | My daughter climbs up onto my lap on the couch. With my back to the TV playing music, I hold her in one of my favor
- Jan 15
- 6 min
Ballad of Hope: Farming and the Miracle of Resurrection
By Hallie Bates | Essay | As I stumble through the steps of making our morning coffee, I look out of our kitchen window to see thousands of
- Dec 21, 2023
- 11 min
On Raising Savages: Making All Things New
By Kris Green | Series | “Mommy, I’m too old for this kitchen!” Tenny, now a full-blown four-year-old, announces. I pause in my room, listen
- Dec 11, 2023
- 20 min
Lasting Ordinance
By Mark Trager | Essay | She lights the two white candles in the dusk-lit dining room with such grace, each match flashing brilliantly into
- Nov 15, 2023
- 14 min
On Raising Savages: Hold Up
By Kris Green | Series | I’m not much of a chef. I can cook the basics and have fun doing it, but that’s just it. Maybe the only reason for
- Oct 24, 2023
- 12 min
On Raising Savages: Ladybugs
By Kris Green | Series | “Should Natalie go into the one-year-old class or not?” my wife asks about the church childcare class.
- Oct 23, 2023
- 11 min
Beyond A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Absence as Evidence
By Bryce Crandall | Essay | Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” is littered with the horrors of loneliness, like
- Oct 12, 2023
- 12 min
On Raising Savages: The Lion and the Bear
By Kris Green | Series | “I don’t want to go to church,” my son, Tenny, says from the backseat of the car. I look into the rearview m