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Stories from the middle of faith & life.

Essays, stories and perspectives exploring what faith looks like within the life we’re actually living.

FEATURED / WITHIN THIS

ISSUE 01 / SEPTEMBER 2026

BODY

SOMETIMES FINISHING BECOMES THE WIN.

A run that was supposed to be about getting faster became something entirely different.

Jonathan Cunningham

LATEST

Softly blurred editorial portrait of a person in motion

BODY

THE BODY REMEMBERS WHAT THE MIND TRIES TO OUTPACE.

What the body remembers can lead us back to a more patient way of living.

ANIKA REED

PURPOSE

WHEN THE NEXT RIGHT THING ISN’T THE MOST IMPRESSIVE THING.

JONAH KIM

LIFE

THE THINGS WE CARRY STILL.

MARIA ORTIZ

FIELD NOTE

“What if the ordinary life you’re living is not keeping you from God, but holding the place where you meet him?”

WITHIN IT

THE READING ROOM

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BODY

THE BODY REMEMBERS WHAT THE MIND TRIES TO OUTPACE.

ANIKA REED

PURPOSE

WHEN THE NEXT RIGHT THING ISN’T THE MOST IMPRESSIVE THING.

JONAH KIM

Black and white editorial portrait of a woman

LIFE

THE THINGS WE CARRY STILL.

A woman learns to stop mistaking the weight she carries for evidence that she is failing—and starts to notice the God who has been carrying her all along.

MARIA ORTIZ

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