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How an old legend is giving me hope right now
Or, Tending to the Fire
Jan 19
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How Sesame Street taught me something important about prayer
Or, maybe it was Brother Lawrence
Jan 13
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Announcing: Braving the Truth
For the first time, Rachel Held Evans' online essays will be available in a book
Jan 6
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Open the Door
Or, A Prayer for Welcoming the New Year
Jan 1
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December 2025
Looking back at 2025
The posts you loved + a peek behind the curtain of Field Notes + thank you
Dec 30, 2025
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In-Dwelling
if God is with us then perhaps God is staying put with us, too.
Dec 23, 2025
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My Favourite Books of 2025
The pseudo-hermit bookworm checks in
Dec 15, 2025
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The books I've been reading lately
My recent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads of autumn and winter, plus all the books I finished recently from novels to popular memoirs to spiritual non-fiction and more
Dec 9, 2025
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Why Everything You Know About the Nativity is Probably Wrong
Sorry for wrecking your Christmas pageants
Dec 4, 2025
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November 2025
Does Advent even matter when the world is on fire?
But here’s the thing: we enter into Advent precisely because we are paying attention.
Nov 30, 2025
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A Simple Advent for the Exhausted Ones
A minimal guide for all of us who know the dark nights, who know what it means to wait, who know what it means to yearn for love and for light and also…
Nov 20, 2025
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The Christian Bookstore Rejects
A few messy thoughts on being a devout Christian author who writes books geared for Christians and yet almost never stocked in the Christian bookstore
Nov 17, 2025
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