by Lara Krupicka | May 1, 2023 | Faith and Culture
Inside the old munitions factory, brightly lit galleries surround a multi-story atrium, their floor-to-ceiling interior windows revealing blown-glass sculptures, velvet-lined cases of silver jewelry, and tall watercolor canvases. From one end of the long building to...
by Sara Easterly | Dec 1, 2022 | Faith and Culture
From age seven on, I grew up in a Christian fundamentalist setting. Reflecting on this from my adult perspective, much of the messaging that I absorbed centered around matters of sexuality and reproduction: No sex before marriage. Women who have babies out of wedlock...
by Jennifer Kinard | Dec 1, 2022 | Faith and Culture
When I was growing up, I was convinced God had given me the wrong skin. Surely he had meant to make me more…American, like my friends. Less yellow, more white. Rounder eyes, less slanty. It would take years and a place thousands of miles from home to help me see...
by Michele Morin | Dec 1, 2022 | Faith and Culture
The spring of 2019 showed up bleak and gray, but we barely noticed. The weight of waiting occupied every minute, with question marks bristling where daffodils had been delayed. An army of friends prayed for our family when we could not, waging war on our behalf,...
by Stephanie Reeves | Nov 1, 2022 | Faith and Culture
Dear Readers, A little more than a year ago, when my youngest son was looking for an apartment to rent in Vermont, I closed my computer and prayed a desperate prayer: “Lord, I’ve done all I know how to do. I need you to show us the place you have for him.” Our son was...
by Keren Dibbens Wyatt | Nov 1, 2022 | Faith and Culture
I sit at the round, steel table in the church café. I don’t much like the décor. It’s trying too hard to be modern, to be relevant, like so many sacred places do these days. You notice me, unlike most passers-by. At fifty you begin to fade, you’ll find, become...
