The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Everything was fine up until the moment when things turned really shitty. These things were true: I was sitting in a movie theatre. I was with my friends. I was breathing. I stopped breathing. My chest was tingling. My arm was numb, it was crawling up my body, it was […]
“Let’s be honest. You know your heart. The Lord knows your heart. And everybody else can go suck a lemon.” A dear friend said that to me a month or so ago. It stuck. I realized that my opinion of myself often is reflective of others’ opinions of me. I […]
“Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?” The Guardian’s Abigail Haworth asked something this week I didn’t think you could ask of a modernized country: “Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?” It’s called the “celibacy syndrome;” millions of young people aren’t dating, getting married, having […]
“So, how’s your baby doing?” It was a couple months after my daughter, Eilidh, had been born, and I was having lunch with a friend. Inevitably, this question came up, and I found myself as unable to answer it as always. “Well, you know, she’s fine. She does the usual […]
I’m 23, I just graduated from university, and I’m single. Many of my friends are married, and a few are starting to have children. And I feel as if I just graduated from high school again. You could say my life is in transition. And it’s true; I am in […]
It’s 1997. I am 17, ridiculously hormonal, lonely and aching for a relationship. Fed on a steady diet of rom-coms and R&B, I twirl around the kitchen (alone), slow-dancing with my imaginary boyfriend to All 4 One’s rendition of “I Swear.” I regularly weep over Sleepless in Seattle, spend entire […]
