Category Archives: Grand Rapids
by Aemelia Tripp | Aug 30, 2018
I love the city I now call home, but it’s never been my destination.
by Brad Zwiers | Aug 27, 2018
A hot and electric pulse coursed through my body, like the shock you receive from an exposed wire, only longer-lasting, and warmer.
by Katie Van Zanen | Aug 25, 2018
I was suddenly aware of everything: the squelch of the slider door’s rubber seal releasing as my brother came in from the yard. The creak and crash of the screen door to the garage behind my dad.
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Aug 15, 2018
And then—after all that hectic activity—all I had to do was drive. For five hours. On the same road. Beside a repeating pattern of corn and soybeans.
by Matt Cambridge | Aug 11, 2018
I don’t like change, and I am an anxious person. Nice to meet you.
by Christina Van Eck | Aug 6, 2018
We welcomed the hilarity of our mistake, the unknowns of adventure, and the opportunity to give ourselves grace.
by Cole Campbell | Jul 29, 2018
With this skewed perspective, it’s almost impossible to disassociate Calvin’s intended view of vocation, and our idea of vocation in relation to our career.
by Tony Ditta | Jun 17, 2018
Condoms were occasionally brought up with a scoff and a smirk. Believing that condoms were good for anything was credulity on par with believing the earth is flat.
by Abby Zwart | Jun 12, 2018
I know some churches are trying. “Singles group” is a thing. But really? That’s depressing on a good day, patronizing on a bad one.
by Carolyn Muyskens | May 2, 2018
Riding the bus requires a release of control. The person using a wheelchair has the priority now; whatever my plans were, they can wait. We’re both riding the same bus, and we’ll get there when we get there.
