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Christian Living

Faithfulness amid the Absurd

Fiction

You Got Me

Essays on Literature, The Bible

Godly Love Alters Time and Space

Letters to an Adopted Child

Series Preface: Letters to an Adopted Child

Letters to an Adopted Child

Making Coffee

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The Bible

Is the Bible Always Literal?

If we miss how the Scripture always points to Jesus Christ, we will miss out on life itself. Continue reading Is the Bible Always Literal?

Davis Wetherell8 Jul 20201 Jul 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Sunscreen

Sunscreen is painless, quick to apply, and effective, and yet it almost always becomes the enemy of the summer’s day. Continue reading Sunscreen

Davis Wetherell1 Aug 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Mask

Like the Coronavirus itself, the mask has spread. Once particular, it turned ubiquitous, though not without friction. Continue reading Mask

Davis Wetherell18 Jul 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Coaster

Once a year, the local community enveloping my college campus held a town-wide garage sale day. Continue reading Coaster

Davis Wetherell4 Jul 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Bookshelf

This one room stores more wisdom than my mind can retain. And most of what I am able to read in my short life, I will forget. Continue reading Bookshelf

Davis Wetherell20 Jun 202027 Nov 2020
Christian Living

When God’s Saving Work Causes Present Suffering

God’s saving work entails worldly ridicule. Should you be saved by God, your life will never be normal. Continue reading When God’s Saving Work Causes Present Suffering

Davis Wetherell10 Jun 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Glasses

Lenses look like flattened ice cubes, melted enough to be translucent. Cold and dull, they seem impersonal. But the task they perform makes them a vital part of our humanity. Continue reading Glasses

Davis Wetherell6 Jun 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Mice

One Sunday, your mom was in her workshop building a coffee table when I heard her scream, “Mouse! Mouse! Davis, there’s a mouse!” Continue reading Mice

Davis Wetherell30 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Wrigley Field

At one point, I found myself at an intersection so full of people that I was pushed up against a corner storefront, unable to move. For a brief moment, I thought I might not escape the crowd, ever. Continue reading Wrigley Field

Davis Wetherell23 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Baseball

A baseball mimics the layers of the world, having cowhide and cotton as crust, yarn as mantle, rubber as outer core, and compressed cork as core. Continue reading Baseball

Davis Wetherell16 May 202027 Nov 2020

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