Not only will I never get my faith back, but I’m going to keep missing it. I’ll always have that longing — but there’s no going back into the garden.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Cross Talk
Jacqueline Alnes wrestles with identity, belonging, and privilege after a crisis of faith at a Missouri-based Christian Kamp 9,000 miles from her Indonesian home.
Posted inBooks, Quotes
The Pain of Loss, Through Centuries and Books
“My father is dead, I said to myself, my father is dead. Again and again I said it, and still I failed to grasp what it meant.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
On Subtlety
What’s so great about having things spelled out clearly?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Highlight, Quotes, Writing
Racism in Romance, or Why Is the Duke Always White
White people: how many people still think “Fabio!” when they hear “romance novel,” raise your hands. Thought so.
Posted inBooks, Sports, Story
Ancestor Work In Street Basketball
The basketball court is a place where young black men feel comfortable mourning death, but are there crucial elements missing from their grieving practices?
Posted inNonfiction
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets
Lockets simultaneously display and hide. But does squirreling our love and grief away in a piece of jewelry keep the memories and emotions present for us, or minimize them?
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Boy Who Wasn’t My Boyfriend
In this personal essay, Allie Zenwirth falls in love within the confines of an all-male Chasidic school.
Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court
Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.
Posted inNonfiction
The Story of Salvador’s Banda Didá
In a country with violent history and violent politics, Brazil’s first all-female, Afro-Brazilian percussion group drums and dances and changes lives.
