The Intersection of Faith and Culture
As I sit down to write this, my Twitter feed constantly updates me with 140 character descriptions from the war zone that is Gaza. I can barely keep up. Truth be told, I don’t even have the ability to compute what I read. As of this moment the figures are as […]
Dear Facebook, It has been seven years since that fateful day we got together. In the beginning, things were fun and exciting. We played games and embarked on spontaneous adventures. Eight hours with you sometimes wasn’t enough. Not a day went by without me thinking about you. You swept me […]
As I close in on 25 and rapidly approach 26, certain emotions and realizations are beginning to take place that I haven’t ever experienced before. I can’t help but be overcome by a surging wave of sentiment and emotion. So here is some of what I’ve realized, as I say […]
When my eight-year-old, Tate, is bored, she’ll complain about having nothing to do, but left unanswered, she’ll usually pull out some paper and markers and draw up a story, a restaurant menu, or a game board. If she’s really daring, she’ll scissor apart a cardboard box and transform it into […]
Charlene Jacobs’ shoulders shake as she covers her face in her hands. Her plain gold wedding band clinks against her glasses as she moves to collect herself. “After how many years, the pain still surfaces,” she says, her round brown eyes glistening as she sits across the table from me. […]
Life as a resident assistant at a Christian college would have been a lot easier if I could have texted my female resident, “I know there’s a guy in your room after visitation hours.” It would have saved me a lot of hassle from knocking on her door, coaxing a […]