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Words, Words, Words: “Unquiet Thoughts” on Holy Week
by Julia LaPlaca | Apr 23, 2019 | Placeless
The constant babble of words in my head—all clambering for my attention—was not conducive for entering into Holy Week.
Broken Number 8
by Sadie Burgher | Apr 22, 2019 | Placeless
“OHMYGOD I LOOK LIKE A CARTOON,” I bawled, spitting blood into the sink. “I DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE! I’M SO UGLY!”
Behold the Pine Cone
by Emily Joy Stroble | Apr 21, 2019 | Colorado
Fire is a dirty thing. Petulant, wild, prone to fits.
Help Wanted
by Gabe Gunnink | Apr 20, 2019 | Placeless
I’m not asking rhetorically. How do you stare down the barrel of the next five years of your life, ten years of your life, rest of your life and not flinch?
Pro-Life
by Mary Margaret Healy | Apr 19, 2019 | Texas
Next Wednesday is just a Wednesday. No one has written any songs for Wednesday.
The King Is Dead. Now Bury Him.
by Ben DeVries | Apr 18, 2019 | Placeless
What would it mean for Game of Thrones if, after expressing such disillusionment with the myth of the rightful ruler, it conjured up exactly that ruler to conclude its story?
“””Art”””
by Tony Ditta | Apr 17, 2019 | Placeless
I’ve created some “””art””” using the Processing programming language.
Fireflies and Drafting Days
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Apr 15, 2019 | Placeless
On paper, on screen, will you see my words?
Old Sunlight Wet Pavement
by Will Montei | Apr 14, 2019 | Placeless
I can’t I try they know they laugh I’m withering with love them.
Fair-Weather Fitness
by Olivia Harre | Apr 13, 2019 | Placeless
First of all, the whole thing felt like a trick.
A Silence Haunts Me
by Abby Zwart | Apr 12, 2019 | Placeless
Both artists choose the same virtue as their guide through their newly dark and silent worlds—Patience.
A Farewell to Certainty
by Matt Cambridge | Apr 11, 2019 | Placeless
It’s amazing how you can immediately be so nervous about something that just moments before you had no idea existed.
This Home
by Jenna Griffin | Apr 10, 2019 | Placeless
I’m thankful for that strange sort of nostalgia that sits in my stomach when I read about my past lives.
Gays for SAO
by Gwyneth Findlay | Apr 9, 2019 | Placeless
In my time at Calvin, conversations following SAO events allowed more freedom of thought than any other discussions of sexuality or gender in non-classroom settings on campus.
Naïve Observations and Questionable Qualifications
by Josh Parks | Apr 8, 2019 | Michigan
I can make completely brilliant points, crack absolutely hilarious jokes, and ask ridiculously insightful questions and get absolutely no response from my students. What’s up with that?
Frankie Works at Franklin Park on Franklin Avenue
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Apr 7, 2019 | New York
That’s the thing about Frankie—he pours the glasses to the brim.
Black Eyed Peas
by Josh deLacy | Apr 6, 2019 | Florida, Washington
When Joanna and I bought groceries the next day from a store unironically named Winn-Dixie, the cashier chatted with us about our beer and asked, “So what are ya’ll doing later today?” in a way that made me feel rude for not including her.
Sankofa: The Power of Returning Home
by Comfort Sampong | Apr 4, 2019 | Ghana
To commemorate a time that holds both tragedy and rebirth, Ghana has declared 2019 the Year of Return.
Losing My Life
by Ansley Kelly | Apr 3, 2019 | Placeless
I realized, sitting at my kitchen table that I needed to be a little more willing to lose my life, the life that I have been trying to beat into submission with a fancy planner and Lysol.
SAO Doesn’t Have To Die
by Cotter Koopman | Apr 2, 2019 | Grand Rapids
Pop culture is the clearest image of the zeitgeist. It’s impossible to claim faith is holistic and not address that fixture.
15 (Realistic) Vegetarian Meals
by Katerina Parsons | Apr 1, 2019 | Placeless
If you’re interested in cutting out meat, or at least eating less of it, here are five days of meat-free meals like the ones I eat—no fancy tools or Whole Foods necessary!
A Guide for Straight Men: How Not to be the Worst on Dating Apps
by Erin Haagsma | Mar 30, 2019 | Placeless
Please welcome today’s guest writer, Erin Haagsma. Erin Haagsma graduated from Calvin College in 2018 with a BA in Linguistics and minors in Spanish and philosophy. She lives in Washington, D.C. where she is a fellow at at Sojourners and lives in intentional community...
Not Enough
by Kelli Grimm | Mar 29, 2019 | Placeless
God doesn’t guarantee that we will find love or that someone will come along and want us as we are– broken and messy. God does promise to love us though.
Dealbreakers
by Matt Coldagelli | Mar 28, 2019 | Placeless
Upon your return to the States, he dubs himself Mayoman, taking to the streets to deliver sweet slippery justice.
Cry Out
by Brad Zwiers | Mar 27, 2019 | Korea
“This is not the way things are supposed to be!” is a very faithful response. Cry out.
The Beast of Eden
by Nick Meekhof | Mar 26, 2019 | Placeless
People often inquire about others’ favorite books, but to ask about one’s most life-changing suggestion, with the intention of stimulating that ‘butterfly moment,’ well, that is a very intentional inquiry.
Katie and Brenna’s Not-So-Definitive, Entirely Anecdotal Guide to Online Dating
by Katie Van Zanen | Mar 25, 2019 | Placeless
It is so hard, in the midst of it, to see online dating as anything other than a means to an end—but it became much more palatable for me once I began to understand it as a life stage in its own right.
Consumers’ Energy
by Leigh Peterson | Mar 24, 2019 | Placeless
Even digital art or an online article, infinitely reproducible and instantly transmissible, is not timeless nor placeless because it comes from a specific person to an audience.
Aristotle, the Buddha, and PB&J
by Julia LaPlaca | Mar 23, 2019 | Placeless
Some days might call for an extra dab of peanut butter and others for rivers of jelly.
Fifteen Dresses
by Sadie Burgher | Mar 22, 2019 | Placeless
Now, in the grand scheme of things, does it actually matter that people know you wore the same dress (gasp!) TWICE in your life?
