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Re-Learning Faith (Not a How-To)

I’ve recently returned to Christianity–a turn in my life I think would surprise many of my friends, considering my extremely liberal and humanist adolescence and early adulthood. In many ways, I still believe and hold to many of the truths I discovered over the years of my spiritual questioning and exploration, and calling myself a Christian still feels a bit foreign …

When You Have a Seed

I am of the belief that everyone has a secret longing—perhaps not-so-secret among the more bombastic of us—to experience more life. To the deluded, this is a longing for luxury, a pomp-induced comfort catered by a trust fund and scantily-clad individuals befitting one’s own sexual palate. The more lucid understand that this fuller life simply exists somewhere in the uncharted …

The Exquisite Alarm of Letting Go

There is a moment, I think, in every big decision when a person becomes suddenly, inexplicably, uncomfortably self-aware in the decision-making process. It’s a moment at which it seems a mirror had been held up to you and you can see what you look like for the first time — and there is a startling lack of recognition. “Is this …

Why We Blog

The phrase “I’m starting a blog!” has so many preloaded connotations that even the closest friends must restrain themselves from snickering and saying, “Yeah, okay.” Everyone has a blog—some people have multiple blogs that individually get neglected and fall through the cracks to rot in the untold dregs of the internet. We could build an entire political party on the …