Writing and Faith

Death and the Failings of Fiction

Nov 21, 2016

Theme Essay by Rebecca Steinitz

I called my children by each other’s names, missed appointments, left my keys in the running car.

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If God Is Alive, I Hate Him

Nov 21, 2016

Theme Essay by Anna Shane Stadick

To live in the unknown, in the uncomfortable, is a challenge for Christians and writers alike.

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Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad: Two Poems

Nov 21, 2016

TW Featured Poetry

Climb until every pixel
 of the sky’s bloom falls directly into your view.

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The Communion of Saints

Nov 14, 2016

Theme Essay by Jo Scott-Coe

I don’t delude myself that writing an essay can somehow undo an act of violence.

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Dear Henry Miller

Sep 12, 2016

Open Letter by John Vogel

If there's a thread that binds us, I believe it’s hope, reasonable or not, for a kind of saving grace.

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Athena Kildegaard: Two Poems

Jun 06, 2016

TW Poetry Spotlight

I've made most of this up, the apples, the stupidity, the bourbon bought in St. Paul.

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How I Learned to Love the Void

Dec 28, 2015

Theme Essay by Marlene Adelstein

It felt like being on a ledge, with vast emptiness below my feet. I wasn't writing—but I wasn't not writing.

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Purple Velour and Other Writing Rituals

Dec 21, 2015

TW Column by Emily Toth

If I do things just right, the terror of the empty page won’t rise up and engulf me.

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Doing Somersaults

Dec 14, 2015

Theme Essay by Laura J. Wolfe

Words have the power to bless or curse, whether they’re spoken, written, or thought.

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Life on Other Planets

Dec 09, 2015

Flash Nonfiction by Julie Jeanell Leung

As a child, whenever I walked to school in the rain, the earthworms frightened me.

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