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2 gilead 2 handle
I very much enjoyed reading this essay by Alissa Wilkinson about two fictional places called Gilead: the eponymous town in Marilynne Robinson’s book Gilead and the nation run by a pseudo-Christian cult in Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale. The latter, recently...
how can the church respond to the opioid epidemic?
Thank you for your patience while I was away! I really appreciated Sarah Clark’s work in this piece on the opioid epidemic: The paradox of addiction is that people cannot choose to leave drugs behind until they fully admit to...
Andrew Osenga, “The Painted Desert”
This year, I’m hoping to keep this blog more active with short posts about stories and essays I’ve been reading, but I also want to share more music. I love writing and listening to music and there’s a lot of...
In lieu of tweet threads
Blogging is dead, they said. Until tweet-threads started taking over Twitter. In lieu of clogging up your timeline with thoughts that I had to cut precious words and meaning from anyway, I’ll be sharing too-long-for-a-tweet yet too-short-for-a-real-essay thoughts here. Probably...