# Essays

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## [Trusting Again: On the God Emerging From Faith Reconstruction](/content/2025/07/25/trusting-again-on-the-god-emerging-from-faith-reconstruction/index.html)

A growing movement of believers are rejecting the notion of an all-powerful God, finding inspiration and comfort in a morally relatable, but limited God.

[Patrick Wilson](/content/author/patrickwilson/index.html)

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## [Beyond the Clock to a Sacred Phenomenology of Time](/content/2025/07/24/beyond-the-clock-to-a-sacred-phenomenology-of-time/index.html)

Modern life has created a spiritual crisis around time. By combining Henri Bergson’s concept of lived time (durée) with Shia Islamic metaphysics, we might move…

[Sabahat Fida](/content/author/sabahat-fida/index.html)

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## [‘Love Is Blind’ and the Atomization of Finding a Mate](/content/2024/03/05/love-is-blind-and-the-atomization-of-finding-a-mate/index.html)

Our dating lives have become more atomized, excluding the social capital from friends and family that has traditionally benefitted courtship.

[Anna Nunan](/content/author/anna-nunan/index.html)

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## [What ‘Beowulf’ Says About the American Incarceration System](/content/2024/01/25/what-beowulf-says-about-the-american-incarceration-system/index.html)

America’s mass incarceration system is built on Beowulf’s same mistaken view for how we ought to address “evil” in society.

[Carissa Chung](/content/author/carissa-chung/index.html)

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## [The Opposable Thumb at the End of the Imagination](/content/2023/08/17/the-opposable-thumb-at-the-end-of-the-imagination/index.html)

Literary intellectuals investigate the power imagination gives us to pose unending questions about our world—viewing religion, philosophy, and science as literary genres full of metaphors.

[Rick Joines](/content/author/richard-joines/index.html)

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## [Tender-Minded vs. Tough-Minded Thinkers](/content/2023/07/10/tender-minded-vs-tough-minded-thinkers/index.html)

Philosopher William James‘ concept of tender-minded vs. tough-minded thinkers helps us better understand what most informs our personal beliefs.

[Jeffrey Howard](/content/author/jeffrey-howard/index.html)

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## [On the Something There Is](/content/2023/04/17/on-the-something-there-is/index.html)

Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.

[Rick Joines](/content/author/richard-joines/index.html)

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## [Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part III](/content/2023/03/17/your-job-and-cancer-are-nothing-part-iii/index.html)

Bringing meditation techniques into his new role as a middle school teacher, a former academic finds some resolution despite a new crisis.

[Donovan Irven](/content/author/donovan-irven/index.html)