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Explore our mortality and what matters in this life together in Issue No. 49: Mattering.
The Afterlives of American Evangelicalism: A Review of Interior States By Meghan O’Gieblyn
"To be a former believer," she writes in her evocative first essay collection, Interior States, “is to perpetually return to the scene of the crime." Each of her fifteen essays, wide-ranging in their content, contains an element of that circling back around: to her Midwestern evangelical childhood or to her time at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, where the threading began to unravel.
All the Things and a Prayer: Slowing Down a Moving Life
This prayer took me inward, took me backward, to who I used to be and who I realized I still carry in me today. This prayer took my attention off external details and put it on the space between details. This space, this prayer, may not heal my body or redeem time, but it will allow, if briefly, a chance to reacquaint myself with my self.
Every Moment Grace to Me
The medicine that saved my life was no longer saving me, and so the darkness came. The summer passed. Now I am in the in-between...I am in the not-knowing.
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