Category Archives: Oregon
by Katie Van Zanen | Jul 10, 2017 |
I am not sure how to accurately convey the unpleasantness of this experience. There was no part of my body that went gentle into that good night.
by Caitlin Gent | Jun 30, 2017 |
Dear M,
I hope you are enjoying life in Oregon. I am trying very hard not to miss you. Sometimes, it works.
by Cristina Stavro | Jan 29, 2016 |
I hadn’t planned on landing in Bend, Oregon and instantly feeling like I had found home, but I did.
by Alissa Anderson | Dec 5, 2014 |
So what do I have? I have my ancestors. I can’t visit them, anyway—most are long dead—so distance doesn’t matter. Still, though, this litany of names acts as a sort of symbolic rootedness.
by Robert Zandstra | Nov 22, 2014 |
Our struggle is against the authorities who misuse and abuse their power. Our struggle is against the evil that enslaves the world and is manifested in the actions of the University administration.
by Robert Zandstra | Aug 22, 2014 |
As the eleventh cousin on both sides of my family, I grew up going to older cousins’ weddings at least annually. I grew to love attending weddings; I have always found them very meaningful.
by Shelly Mosurinjohn | May 29, 2014 |
I felt helpless and a bit stupid standing out there in the dark. It dawned on me that this wasn’t like my childhood doll house or some story I was just making up.
by Robert Zandstra | Feb 22, 2014 |
We climb on nature’s back to build a heavenly Babel, but it is nature that sets us back on earth, where we were created, where we belong.
by Robert Zandstra | Oct 22, 2013 |
Since all creation breathes God’s breath and participates in God’s Spirit, there are only sacred places and places that have been desecrated.
by Robert Zandstra | Sep 22, 2013 |
The importance of questions and reasons (beyond answers) was emphasized to me recently by reading two poetic works respectively about Thomas Becket and Thomas Cranmer.
