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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    the practice of collecting (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    the practice of trying (opens the original)

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    its sunday morning. 9:10am, everyone is still in bed beside Noah and I. we sit side by side on the loveseat, kissed by the grey tones of a rainy morning light pouring through the bay window. noah (which means comfort, who is our dog) watches the neighbor’s cat lazily crawl underneath a car. someone has just walked down the hall way and is now in the kitchen behind me. by their footsteps, I suppose its Rory. he opens the fridge door, closes it and walks back to the bathroom. by now, noah is more

  3. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    the modern monastic (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Sep 3, 2026

    Progress as Pain (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    Mutualism Challenges the “Girl Boss” in All of Us (opens the original)

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    For my final piece on mutualism, I want to take the same scriptual arguments I used yesterday..and apply them to myself. Lets go. Every year it seems like the conversation about complementarianism and egalitarianism comes around again, and if I’m honest, sometimes I want to eat a fork. One side can begin to suggest that theology is simply a sophisticated word for control… Who gets to tell women what they can and cannot do? The other side can turn the conversation into the Christian version of th

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