HeyJaredAll My Darlings
Writing about the ways our internal beliefs work themselves outward. Stories / essays / poems - all from a Christian perspective.
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Our Collective Memory Problem and Lindsay Clancy (opens the original)
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A couple months ago I checked out Mary Carruthers’ The Book of Memory from the library. (It’s a deep dive into medieval memory culture.) The Goodreads reviews were mixed; some said the book was easy-peasy smooth sailing and others, more pragmatic folks, called it “dense.” I wouldn’t dare to presume to take a side, but I will proffer that it put me to sleep faster than an intravenous sedative. Coming to after falling asleep upright, with a book in hand, was nearly like waking from getting my wisd
God’s Taking Care of Our Kids (opens the original)
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He took the Scotch tape – that coveted material – and stuck little strips on everything that seemed right: door handle, wall, fridge, dishwasher, the like. No big deal. Small potatoes. But I tell him that this is why we don’t have much tape around; not gonna keep buying this fleeting pleasure for four bucks a pop. The four-year-old takes this with stoicism. He looks me right in the eyeballs and crooks his finger at me. Come thither. I come over, and he stretches his arms around me, apparently se
In a World of Radicals, Where is the Righteous Action? (opens the original)
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It is dark, but the smell of salt is all around you. You are on your first sea voyage, walking the ship’s weather side in the black recesses of the pre-dawn, taking the morning watch.For days, you have been retching at every lurch of the ship, sailing through storms and swelling seas, your stomach roiling. You’re unable to see beyond the nausea: the wafting stench of the bilgewater in the hold, the tilt and rise of the deck.You remember, wryly, being ordered aloft to reef the topsails, climbing
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