writer, editor, doubt-filled believer
This post is sort of a (non-spoiler-y) book review of Courtney Summers' The Project, sort of a love letter to truly good storytelling, sort of (surprise!!!) existential naval-gazing. Here's a short plot summary of The Project from Courtney's website: After a tragic accident kills most of her family, Bea Denham is determined not to lose … Continue reading Seeing and Believing in ‘The Project’
Here is something wise my friend Melanie wrote me a few months ago: I think there's something dangerous about assuming that because we have gone through our own phase of enlightenment about something that everyone else has necessarily gone through the same realizations and that it's no longer worth discussing. ... this process of reflecting … Continue reading Practicing the Practice
Today is Pentecost Sunday, the day on the church calendar when we remember and celebrate the Holy Spirit coming to the early church. The Scripture we read today tells the story of people who aren't from the same place and don't speak the same language being united in a sudden ability to understand each other: … Continue reading we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God
Last night we watched To All the Boys I Loved Before: P.S. I Still Love You on Netflix. It was not as deeply charming as the first one. But it did make me cry twice! Once because Peter Kaminsky. And once when Lara Jean asked her underdeveloped old lady friend, "What if he doesn't want me?" … Continue reading those who mourn
To my memory, the churches I grew up in didn't have specific Ash Wednesday liturgical services. (They might have and we didn't participate or I don't remember because I was a kid and not yet obsessed with this kind of thing, meaning both liturgy and death.) In college, I mostly knew of Lent as the … Continue reading Dust to Dust
