Inkwell
Inkwell, O. Alan Noble, Sherry Ning, Grace Leuenberger, Deidre Braley, Sarah Jane Souther, A. A. Kostas, Ben Christenson, Jenna Mindel, Alec Siek, Blake Petteway, Sarah Beth Spraggins, Madison Zuñiga, Conor J. Smith, Kara Bettis CarvalhoFrom Dust, New Lore. A storytelling community seeking transcendence.
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Every first day of school, my friend’s mom used to write the word intrepid on her wrist in black ink to remind her to be brave as she faced new cl...
A Good Man is Hard to Find?
Featuring Jenna Mindel in the Fiery Philosophies series.
SOMEWHERE I heard that getting married young is like building a company together, and getting married later is like doing a merger; both are hard for different reasons....
The Two, Three, Four Loves?
Featuring A.A. Kostas in the Fiery Philosophies series.
A RIVER OF LOVE awakens me from my sleepwalked existence. I snap to my senses and am alive to this reality: It moves around us all; it’s the lifeblood of the world; it’s...
Till Death
Featuring Sherry Ning in the Fiery Philosophies series.
SPRING, 2026.
The jewelry designer spun her laptop around to show Ben and me a mock-up of what our wedding bands will look like. “See, this is a size 4.25, three-mi...
The Internet is a Second-Rate Lover
Featuring O. Alan Noble in the Fiery Philosophies series.
LIFE CHANGED FOR ME the day my dad came home from work and told us that his boss had generously given him permission to use his AOL login, granting us access to the won...
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From Dust, New Lore. A storytelling community seeking transcendence by Christianity Today.
Author of "To Live Well," “You Are Not Your Own,” and “On Getting Out Of Bed,” published by InterVarsity Press. Prof English at Oklahoma Baptist University. Writing about humanism, culture, and faith.
Your cage is always open you can leave anytime you want. Author of 'The Pluri Society' on Amazon. Nabokov enthusiast.
Northeast Ohio superfan writing about faith, formation, fun, food, and feelings.
Just a girl who can't stop thinking about theology, poetry, and the whimsy of life. MDiv student at Pillar Seminary. Forthcoming book on delight as a spiritual discipline with Revell Books in 2027.
Let's break some silly little rules
International man of mysticism. Author of LUMINOX (Tilt Press, 2026) and THE PILGRIMS (Eclogue Press, coming soon). Editor of NEW ADVENTURES (Pennyworth Press, 2026). Contributing editor at TRACES JOURNAL. Always seeking Him.
"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say." - Flannery O’Connor. All views (and writing) are my own. By-lines in Inkwell, Mere Orthodoxy, Front Porch Republic, and others.
Faith & culture writer. Spiritual director in training. Living in California, with my husband and cat, trying to see God in everything. ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆
photographer, writer, wandering onward.
storyteller, poet, & student of Jesus trying not to get outsung by some stones
Sculptor, Writer, Christian | Young Storyteller's Fellow with Inkwell | M.A. in Writing at PLNU
Aspiring author.
Opinion writer at The Boston Globe. Formerly Christianity Today. Published elsewhere around the web (and in print). Views my own.
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