The Other Grammys
The piece is therefore about both an escape from the material and a return to it: its horn calls and dance rhythms are both earthbound and transcendent.
Josh Parks graduated from Calvin in 2018 with majors in English and music, and he is currently a PhD student in religious studies at the University of Virginia. When not writing, he can be found learning the alto recorder, watching obscure Disney movies, and making excruciating puns.
by Josh Parks | Feb 8, 2025 | 0 comments
The piece is therefore about both an escape from the material and a return to it: its horn calls and dance rhythms are both earthbound and transcendent.
by Josh Parks | Jan 8, 2025 | 0 comments
When I see these things in a real bookstore, I could be convinced there’s a conspiracy afoot.
by Josh Parks | Dec 30, 2024 | 0 comments
Our hope for the post calvin is that writing does not feel like shouting into the void.
by Josh Parks | Nov 8, 2024 | 4 comments
It’s a kind of mental treadmill, a sprint that doesn’t get me anywhere except tired.
by Josh Parks | Sep 8, 2024 | 0 comments
That mirrorverse that convinces us that the only way to love something is to dissect it.
by Josh Parks | Jul 8, 2024 | 3 comments
Who knows what lurks in the catacombs of Spotify if you search “jazzy organ”?
by Josh Parks | Jun 8, 2024 | 2 comments
I don’t know what “knowledge is merely daylight masquerading as God” means, but it sure sounds true.
by Josh Parks | May 8, 2024 | 0 comments
From this vantage point, a few tax credits for home solar panels (imagine owning a home!) doesn’t feel like hope.
by Josh Parks | Jan 8, 2024 | 0 comments
If I was magically transported to the 1982 EPCOT Center, I think I’d know how to get around.
by Josh Parks | Dec 30, 2023 | 0 comments
The best posts are the ones that remind us why this place keeps going.
by Josh Parks | Dec 8, 2023 | 4 comments
Congregational eye-rolling intensifies.
by Josh Parks | Oct 8, 2023 | 2 comments
No doubt a historical trigonometrist could measure the percentage of Weathertop that fell below the horizon each hour, though that study has yet to be published.
by Josh Parks | Sep 8, 2023 | 2 comments
When I picked it up in disbelief, the beautiful initial N stared (yes, manuscripts can stare) into my soul.
by Josh Parks | Jul 8, 2023 | 0 comments
Is it such a bad thing to stop reading a book like scripture and start reading it like a book?
by Josh Parks | Jun 8, 2023 | 2 comments
No wonder my eyes sting when I go outside; the air’s full of tiny demonic scorpions.
by Josh Parks | May 8, 2023 | 1 comment
Sin, in other words, might be where the rubber meets the road.
by Josh Parks | Apr 8, 2023 | 2 comments
Conspiracies form at night. So do revolutions.
by Josh Parks | Mar 8, 2023 | 2 comments
Two monuments then, intertwined: one to wonders and another to horrors.
by Josh Parks | Feb 8, 2023 | 0 comments
“I’ve tried this book before,” said I, “with the success of a sore-legged predator. It stings and slogs in a circus of circumlocutions.”
by Josh Parks | Jan 8, 2023 | 2 comments
What if our words were less like swords (sharpened, polished) and more like textiles—equally demanding to make, but designed to warm rather than to wound?
by Josh Parks | Dec 29, 2022 | 0 comments
Our teachers are each other.
by Josh Parks | Oct 8, 2022 | 0 comments
Rusty antennae form a kind of industrial crown of thorns, and the typeface doesn’t say “beach day” as much as “we interrupt this program to bring you a SEVERE WEATHER ALERT.”
by Josh Parks | Sep 8, 2022 | 3 comments
You could smell the hesitant air looking for its next class in all the wrong buildings.
by Josh Parks | Aug 8, 2022 | 0 comments
The employee scanning tickets even told me excitedly that I was the second person ever to use their “add tickets to Apple Wallet” feature.
by Josh Parks | Jul 8, 2022 | 1 comment
I watch over my friend’s shoulder as they make mistakes and then correct them, reassured somehow that typos aren’t just a modern malady.
by Josh Parks | Jun 8, 2022 | 0 comments
Sex was evil until it was not, and then it was amazing even when it wasn’t.
by Josh Parks | May 8, 2022 | 3 comments
Perfect for a congregation to sing together even when half of them think the “walls” are corporate income taxes.
by Josh Parks | Apr 8, 2022 | 0 comments
Historically, whenever Christians declare or expect victory, bodies pile up.