Category Archives: Grand Rapids
by Emily Joy Stroble | May 21, 2019
Confession dwells. It sets up camp in the desert of failure and resigns itself to wandering forty minutes or forty years.
by Jeffrey Peterson | Apr 24, 2019
A little over a week ago I stood in the yard, watching while Taylor planted arugula in the beds. I was not in a good mood.
by Cotter Koopman | Apr 2, 2019
Pop culture is the clearest image of the zeitgeist. It’s impossible to claim faith is holistic and not address that fixture.
by Cotter Koopman | Mar 2, 2019
That’s how I realized, or decided: the spoon rest is the pinnacle of kitchen goods.
by Sadie Burgher | Feb 22, 2019
1:15 p.m. “Ope, it’s 1:15, I’ve got to run now,” he says. “Thank you, great to meet you.”
by Emily Joy Stroble | Feb 21, 2019
I promise, I will tell the story about the two-foot flames licking at the burners when I cracked open the oven door.
by Jeffrey Peterson | Jan 24, 2019
This year, and any time you play Dark Souls, you will rush into something, and you will fail. You will take your time at something, and you will fail—even at something you’ve done easily a hundred times before.
by Gabe Gunnink | Jan 20, 2019
This February, the Alaskan Way Viaduct will be disassembled. Trucks and cranes will shake loose the concrete foundations before an earthquake has the pleasure, and I’m beginning to realize that I will never be able to leave Seattle the way I came.
by Cotter Koopman | Jan 2, 2019
When a man approached me in the mall food court and sheepishly asked if I had a few minutes to talk about Jesus, I reflexively smiled and said, “Oh, I’m already a Christian!” before realizing I wasn’t completely lying this time.
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Dec 15, 2018
Thick, globby specks of white dotted the sky, like Impressionist brushstrokes viewed too close up.
