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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!
Popular posts:
The Center is Not Here by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth
Cohabitating My Way to Hell by Jon Gorter
When Your Vagina Doesn’t Work—and You’re Married by Anonymous
Sacrificing My Soul on the Altar of Gay Porn by Annaka Koster
Anarcha by Meg Schmidt
The Non-Reproductive Church by Jack Kamps
Thank You, Neland Avenue by Katie Van Zanen