Alisa Ruddell is a homeschooling mother of four who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, Steve. She loves classic literature, reading aloud to her children on the couch, and listening to theology and science podcasts while going about her household chores. Writing helps her to weave together the threads of meaning she finds in her reading, watching, and listening.  She has previously published at Salt and Iron.
Aug 4, 2020

It’s a Festival, Not a Machine: Celebrating The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau’s channel, The Symbolic World, provides a means for the baptism of the evangelical imagination into this symbolic life.
Jun 11, 2020

Humor and Humility in the Music of Father John Misty

No matter his graphic language, depression-stoked benders, and religious satire, Father John Misty still orbits Christianity with a gravity he can’t escape.
Mar 27, 2020

Ashes to Ashes, Stardust to Stardust: Watching Sunshine during a Pandemic

A good story doesn’t make you feel more afraid than you were before; a good story helps you see the best way to act in the midst of your anxious fear, providing you with hope.
Mar 5, 2020

Why Truth-Loving Christians Still Have a B.S. Problem (and What We Can Do about It)

We need to learn how to cut through the B.S. and un-deceive ourselves daily to gain a clearer vision of both God and the world.
Jan 17, 2020

Transcending Evolution: Love and Death in Spring

Spring suggests that to be truly human is to love in a manner that transcends any evolutionary roots.
Oct 26, 2018

Finding God in Godless

Godless treats the subject of God’s absence not in propositional statements, but rather the embodied, existential answer of lives well-lived.