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A Title and Some Questions About Worship Leaders

First off—my forthcoming book about faith-washed diet and wellness culture has an official title! I’m thrilled to finally be able to share it with you:

Thin, Holy, and Never Enough:

How Clean Eating, Control, and Wellness Became...

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From the Graveyard

Every draft of every article I write has a graveyard: an appendix of sentences, fragments, lists, and phrases that didn’t find a place in the draft, but didn’t deserve full deletion. Usually it’s just an extra page at the end of the documen...

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Alternative Everything

The morning of July 4th, I drove across the midwest with my husband—noting that all the corn is well past knee-high. We made it from Urbana, Illinois back to Des Moines in time for a family cookout. On the drive, we listened to some newly-d...

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Self-Help Me, God: The "Toxic" to "Goyslop" Pipeline

A few months ago I wrote a post about orthorexia. Though not in the DSM-V, orthorexia is generally recognized by mental health professionals and clinicians as a harmful nexus of behaviors. It is characterized by rigid adherence to food rule...

2 months ago
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"The Beggar's Opera" with Karen Swallow Prior and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

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  • Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

    Writer, musicologist. Writing on music, worship, and culture at Christianity Today. Working on a book about Christian wellness culture. Teaching courses on music history, theology, and social justice. Living quietly in the middle of Iowa.

  • Meredith Miller

    I'm a pastor + parent who helps adults talk about God, faith + the Bible with kids. I wrote Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn't Have to Heal From and Wonder: A Grown Up's Guide to Exploring the Bible with Children.

  • Karen Swallow Prior

    A reader and writer attending more closely to what is good, true, and beautiful. 2025-26 Karlson Scholar at Bethel Seminary. The Priory is devoted to the holy cultivation of a rich inner life. “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” -- Mary Oliver

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