The Intersection of Faith and Culture
If “master penman” made you think of some guy in a wig, wielding a white feather over a scroll of parchment, think again. Better yet, watch this video. Not only will you’ll be swept away by the tactile force and the eloquent vision behind Jake Weidmann’s penmanship, but it will […]
It’s just the common cold. But for our family, it means we’re stuck in the hospital, feeling like our lives are close to being over. While other kids are picking pumpkins in the patch, mine is struggling to breathe. She couldn’t pick pumpkins if she tried. There are always multiple […]
Mother Teresa wasn’t one for pedicures. In fact, her feet were so gnarled and hard-skinned they looked more like the roots belonging to a knobby old tree than the feet of a saintly, beautiful woman. In his book The Irresistible Revolution, activist Shane Claiborne writes when he served alongside her […]
I’m 29. I’m a guy. And I’m single. The male single doesn’t have it as bad as the female single — of that I am distinctively aware. I don’t have a body clock determining when I can give birth to a living being, and I don’t have to deal with […]
So I’ve been teaching a high school film class, flying by the seat of my pedagogical pants while replacing the regular teacher until after Christmas break. Judging by his posters, his curriculum has focused on the Seth Rogen canon and the Predator series, although these students have yet to demonstrate […]
It’s a real thing. People may scoff at you and say, “You’re so young!” But truly, it is a real thing to have a quarter-life crisis. And I think I’m going through one. Right now. Because the other night I freaked out, grabbed my roommate’s construction scissors and chopped bangs […]
