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🍃 Sally Welch finds ‘wild church’ more of a struggle than she had expected: ’Wild church can encourage all generations to discover the joy and wonder of the natural world and how it can illustrate the loving purposes of God.’ #Faith #Features #ChurchTimes

What Anne of Green Gables Reveals About White Girlhood: “How dare you!” Anne Shirley seethes. Anne stands in her one-room country schoolhouse wearing a gingham dress. She grips in her girlish hands the pale wooden frame of her writing slate—or rather, what remains of it. The… #Features #FilmandTV

"Google Accepted My Feature Request to Make Night Routes Safer. I'm a Student From Kolkata With Zero Connections." by Arpan Chakraborty

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After decades of ministry in Hong Kong 🇭🇰, Jackie Pullinger tells Vicky Walker that she has no plans to retire #Features #ChurchTimes

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How American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years From Your Life: Washington currently estimates that Americans spend 12 billion hours a year filling out government forms, meaning the average person spends six 8-hour workdays filing their taxes, signing up for Medicaid,… #Features #NewsandCulture

Self-Mythologizing on the Radio: A Brief History of Audio Patriotism: It feels fitting, in the country’s semiquincentennial, to reflect on the ways in which we have mythologized ourselves over the past 250 years. As you might imagine, the Golden Age of Radio, in which the medium… #Features #History

7 Novels About Obsessive Athletes: Accomplishment in sports, unlike in most other areas of life, is concrete, definitive. There are winners and losers; there are rankings. This all-or-nothing dynamic lends itself to obsession. The narrator of my debut novel, Daytona… #CraftandCriticism #Features

Translation as a Journey: Jessica Sequeira on Vlady Kociancich’s The Eighth Wonder: Along with her novels, Vlady Kociancich worked on a translation of Joseph Conrad’s The End of the Tether, which according to her obituary by Daniel Gigena in La Nación, “había sido muy… #CraftandCriticism #Features

What Hieronymus Bosch’s Fantastical Tryptiches Reveal About the Artist’s Worldview: While Giotto sought to communicate the Christian messages that he had been commissioned to depict by encouraging his viewers to empathize with the characters in his realistic scenes,… #ArtandPhotography #Features

On the Rise of White Christian Nationalism in the US: UC Santa Barbara in the 1980s felt like the counterculture’s afterparty: sun-drenched, restless, and still echoing defiance. Palm trees swayed over a serene campus where students surfed at Campus Point between (or in… #Features #NewsandCulture

Data Centers: The Latest Thing to Destroy Beautiful West Virginia: The data centers have been speaking to me lately, in the form of ChatGPT slop. The spam offers to market my new novel for a fee, perverting the language I’ve written about a place the data centers promise… #ClimateChange #Features

A Poem by Antonella Anedda: Storditi dalla nostalgia, confusi dai sogni, con i teli da bagno pieni di vento, con la rapida incompleta visione di una casa al mattino. Laggiú nell’aria il ronzio dell’aspirapolvere sui tappeti e i tonfi dei tappeti contro i muri. Nelle #Features #FictionandPoetry