What do we need in order to celebrate? We think we need better friends. We think we need to be without sin, or pretend to

Sometime in about 2017, another newlywed I knew from college shared a blog post on Facebook. This piece, which her caption indicated she had found

Here’s something else I think I need in order to celebrate: to be, retrospectively, without sin. I wrote my dissertation about raised-evangelicals writing about politics

I turned in my dissertation revisions last week, and ever since, I have been on the hunt for University of Michigan regalia I can borrow

I grew up in a junior varsity liturgical family. I spent enough time around high church people to know the date of Orthodox Christmas (special

Some time ago, against what is perhaps my better judgment, I volunteered to become president of the condo board.  The association was in the middle

I’ve been writing for the post calvin for almost eight years, off and on. All my posts have themselves emerged from what I was most

Sometimes I wonder why I didn’t have sex in college. It’s an absurd thought, really, because there are so many reasons: there was nowhere to

This year, on Ash Wednesday, I was crossed and blessed at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson, Mississippi.  It was the tail end of a