narrative

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Seed.”

Humans crave stories that create order, whether they’re about the supreme being in the universe or the greatest tennis player in history.

What if we did asystematic theology?

I’m hoping for one that’s lyrical, chastened, hallowed.

Swiv isn’t an unreliable narrator, but she’s living in a world that feels unreliable.

The stories we tell can do real damage. Or they can heal.

Yair Mintzker doesn't know. He's more interested in why other historians keep trying to write a 19th-century novel about the 18th-century case.

I had the classic Texas Baptist starter package. I went to Carl’s shop to trade it in.

Like it or not, Wikipedia is here and it will probably stay. Everybody from third grade history students to graduate level scholars use them. Even when Wiki pages cannot be cited, we still use them. We are forming history on that site. 

There is a particular authority that comes from privilege. When a white man steps into the place where he belongs, he has an internal power with which he was born. He is entitled. Like royalty, he sits on the throne naturally, because that place is caught in his blood. But an entirely different power emerges from women who have been told that they are not allowed to speak in church—and suddenly rise behind the pulpit. Something flares up from deep inside of them, and when they have a safe space, the words can come out of them with force and fury.

It takes a lifetime, as well as a remarkable life, to write a book like Eleonore Stump's Wandering in Darkness.