Door to the River

Published on April 2, 2025

After the painting by Willem de Kooning

Imagine a door. Now, remove the attachments—
the hinges and knobs—extract the word wooden

like a splinter from your heel, and there you have it:
wide open, all yours. Pretend you’re Huck Finn

In his hands, the Bible was a living, aching, burning thing.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Lately I’ve been feeling the same emotions I felt when I deconstructed my evangelical faith.

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