Rachael Berglund lives with her husband in Mountain View, California and Arvada, Colorado. She works as revenue enablement consultant for software startups, and has written about a variety of topics related to Christian anthropology for publications including Fathom Mag, Christianity Today and CAPC. Her most recent writing can be found at her Substack.

The Age of Fantasy: Competing Visions, Colliding Worlds

I now understand why the fantasy world imagined by Stan Lee offered a more compelling mythological lens than the world imagined by Tolkien did.

Ted Lasso and the Things Men Do Instead of Going to Therapy

All stories can and often do serve as a kind of therapeutic invitation—an opportunity to step out of our current experience and into the experiences of others, whether happy experiences we long to have, or painful experiences we’ve had and are struggling to make sense of.

Obama, Cosby, and America’s Black Family

I’ll thank God that President Obama is a faithful leader of his family, in the midst of my concerns about how he would, and did, lead our country.

The Word/Image Imbalance of ‘Visual Theology’

While it uses an innovative approach to teaching theological truth, Visual Theology’s full potential is stifled by multiple levels of relational imbalance.