Category Archives: Chicago
by Jeffrey Peterson | Oct 24, 2019 |
There are many white people in Grand Rapids, and gossiping about dog breeds is, I guess, what we do.
by Jaclyn Mae Vander Zee | Sep 29, 2019 |
So during my sixth and final semester at Calvin, I waited.
and waited.
and waited.
by Mary Margaret Healy | May 19, 2019 |
So consider this a love letter from your faraway child.
by India Daniels | Dec 5, 2018 |
The word alderman has Anglo-Saxon origins: a noble (serving the king) as ruler of a local district. Quite literally it means “old man.”
by India Daniels | Nov 5, 2018 |
Seeing chipped stained glass and other signs of disrepair was dismaying, but it also renewed my appreciation of how church architecture brings grandeur into public space.
by Olivia Harre | Oct 13, 2018 |
“I’m actually on a connecting flight, traveling to a corn hole tournament. It’s a pretty big deal,” the man in the seat behind me announced.
by Julia LaPlaca | May 23, 2018 |
While at home, I went on a walk, remembering how, after a long rain, the air would smell like cupcakes or Cheerios as the fumes from General Mills wafted over the trees and rooftops.
by India Daniels | May 5, 2018 |
One Monday morning a couple weeks ago, a man did something I should have been prepared for.
by India Daniels | Apr 5, 2018 |
I haven’t outgrown my loneliness, but I do think I’m growing into my own solitude.
by India Daniels | Mar 5, 2018 |
With a new pastor in the pulpit after a long stretch of interim pastors, I’ve been hopeful. But in the past few months, we’ve hit a new series of lows.
