the post calvin

My Life, in Screenshots

by Comfort Sampong | Jul 4, 2022 | Placeless

I was privately affirming truths, moments I felt seen by someone who spoke the words of my heart, and serendipitous findings.

My Childhood Palate

by Ansley Kelly | Jul 3, 2022 | Placeless

On other nights, Dad would come out to campfires we were so fond of building, cracking open a big can of baked beans to nestle into the coals on the edge of the pit.

Oops I’m a Troubadour

by Christina Ribbens | Jul 2, 2022 | Placeless

It’s a pitiful, endearing, and slightly Dickensian image: two pale, scrawny siblings with oversized guitar cases strapped to their backs, walking slowly along a quiet street

When Your Vagina Doesn’t Work—and You’re Married

by Anonymous | Jun 30, 2022 | Placeless

Miracles are rare and precious, and the one I’ve begged and pleaded and soaked my pillow with tears and snot for hasn’t come in nearly three years—and counting.

The Non-Reproductive Church

by Jack Kamps | Jun 29, 2022 | Placeless

What if there is something more important than the church’s survival?

Cohabitating My Way to Hell

by Jon Gorter | Jun 28, 2022 | Michigan

My friend had just described a hypothetical scenario of someone living in direct opposition to the laws of the church, and there I was, right beside him, living that life, deserving of reprimand.

One Body Dysmorphic

by Anna Jeffries VanZytveld | Jun 27, 2022 | Placeless

You sit inside the dedicated four walls that purportedly house the holy body, but your own body feels bad because you’ve been led to believe you can’t feel anything else.

Sacrificing My Soul on the Altar of Gay Porn

by Annaka Koster | Jun 26, 2022 | Placeless

As a woman, I was late to the scene, and as a hopelessly asexual person, the scene did nothing for me.

The Center is Not Here

by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Jun 25, 2022 | Placeless

We can be lamentably blind to the blood on our hands

Sex Ed and More with the Saints

by Joshua Polanski | Jun 24, 2022 | Placeless

Lesson learned: don’t castrate yourself for God or all of your friends might find out.

“Can Guys and Girls Be Friends?”

by Mitchell Barbee | Jun 23, 2022 | Placeless

When I first heard of the Billy Graham Rule as a teenager, it sounded commendable.

The Patron Saint of Sexually Unfulfilled Women

by Kayleigh Fongers | Jun 22, 2022 | Placeless

She never condemns or criticizes anyone for their own unique experiences.

Jesus Swipe!

by Emily Joy Stroble | Jun 21, 2022 | Placeless

My experience on Upward has largely been a strange dance—two people wobbling with Jesus awkwardly in the middle.

Mine Is the Easy Job

by Lillie Spackman | Jun 19, 2022 | Placeless

All I must do is mourn with those who mourn, offer my voice to those who can’t find the words, condemn hate and harm.

Tone, Not Substance

by Ben DeVries | Jun 18, 2022 | Placeless

The denomination would like for things to be settled.

A Sex Education

by Laura Sheppard Song | Jun 17, 2022 | Placeless

We get married. We have sex. The world doesn’t feel different once it happens.

Thank You, Neland Avenue

by Katie Van Zanen | Jun 16, 2022 | Grand Rapids

I am grateful to be a daughter of Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church because it matters still, to see so many people who care about the things that so deeply trouble me in the world and in the church.

The Single Talk

by Courtney Zonnefeld | Jun 15, 2022 | Placeless

If we are not committed to friendship, if we do not grieve and fight and ask questions alongside them, then we are the church but hardly a community.

Grace for the Gray

by Olivia Harre | Jun 13, 2022 | Placeless

I placed sex firmly in the “bad” category, to be retrieved only after I walked down an elusive aisle to a man I probably wouldn’t meet for at least a decade.

What Does the HSR Mean by “Confessional”?

by Klaas Walhout | Jun 12, 2022 | Placeless

When it comes to a moment like the one in which the CRC finds itself, semantics matter.

Take Me to Church

by Lauren Cole | Jun 11, 2022 | Placeless

So many artists reach for religious imagery to explain the height of their experience with a beloved.

When Your Vagina Doesn’t Work

by Gwyneth Findlay | Jun 9, 2022 | Placeless

I often wonder what would’ve happened if I’d had that wedding night, one weighed down by the expectations of a brand of purity culture that left little room for alternatives to PIV sex.

Theology Needs More Sex Scenes

by Josh Parks | Jun 8, 2022 | Placeless

Sex was evil until it was not, and then it was amazing even when it wasn’t.

The Cost of Purity Rhetoric

by Susannah Boersma | Jun 7, 2022 | Michigan

My obsession with that unattainable purity led me to fear the only vessel I was given to experience this world.

For Unto Her a Child is Forced

by Ben Orlebeke | Jun 6, 2022 | Placeless

When Dobbs comes down, prosecutions will rise. Many women will go to jail. More will die.

Leaving Room for Jesus

by Alex Johnson | Jun 5, 2022 | Placeless

Don’t you want it so so bad? Aren’t you willing to do the right things so you get to have it? Isn’t not having sex awful?

This Body of Work

by Comfort Sampong | Jun 4, 2022 | Placeless

Regardless of how much I studied, read, and prayed, I would never be permitted to preach in front of a congregation.

A Fullness of Human Life

by Ansley Kelly | Jun 3, 2022 | Placeless

While my purpose wasn’t the conversion of my coworker, I like that she might think about God’s interest in her life when she walks past the bananas.

The Trouble with Wanting

by Christina Ribbens | Jun 2, 2022 | Placeless

If I’m miserable that means I must be doing something right.

Call for Audition Submissions

by Alex Johnson | May 31, 2022 | Placeless

Are you interested in joining the post calvin community? We have a few openings for new writers beginning this August, and we’d love for you to audition!

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