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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

Fiction

The Walk

He followed the winding corridor out onto the open pavilion, clacking his shoes on the cobblestone. Those houses with their familiar faces welcomed him. Continue reading The Walk

Davis Wetherell13 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Rain

Controlling rain would be a great thing for humanity. You don’t have to look far in our culture to see the damage rain has done to us in the past, and the ways we are trying to cope with it now. Continue reading Rain

Davis Wetherell9 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Genesis

The stories tend to feel bare and incomplete, and this is intentional. The author has left gaps in the narrative for our own hearts to fall into. Genesis lets us participate in the story. Continue reading Genesis

Davis Wetherell2 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Watch

Watches can be statements of decadence and pragmatism, athleticism and intelligence, masculinity and femininity. These wearable messengers of time are often the most expensive and most constant outward representation of our inner self. Continue reading Watch

Davis Wetherell25 Apr 202020 May 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Writing

The idea and the creation of writing make up the substance of my mind. So, it is natural for me to think about writing, because writing is what my thoughts are. Continue reading Writing

Davis Wetherell18 Apr 20208 May 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Coronavirus

I write this on the morning of April 7, 2020. Your mother and I have been taking refuge at home, leaving only when absolutely necessary, for twenty-one days. Continue reading Coronavirus

Davis Wetherell11 Apr 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

The Bible

The Bible is a book of books, which is to say that this one book contains multitudes. Within its covers you will find great literary variety, both origin story and apocalypse, both national history and intimate letters, both accounting and poetry. Continue reading The Bible

Davis Wetherell4 Apr 20208 May 2020
Christian Living

What Aristotle Can Teach Us about Christian Living

Imitation. This word brings to my mind both a high-minded literary device—the doppelgänger—and an annoying habit I formed as the youngest sibling in my family—copying everything my older sister said. Continue reading What Aristotle Can Teach Us about Christian Living

Davis Wetherell1 Apr 20208 May 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Keys

Keys’ primary function is to get us inside something that belongs to us. This is evident by the name we call individual keys—car keys, house keys. Continue reading Keys

Davis Wetherell28 Mar 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

House

Houses are always an infusion of inanimate and animate things, that is to say an inseparable mixture of nonliving objects and living beings. Continue reading House

Davis Wetherell21 Mar 202020 Mar 2020

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