Category: Prose

  • How To Breathe While Drowning

    How To Breathe While Drowning
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    I despair. It’s not that anything major is wrong. My health is relatively good. My family is mostly happy. I have what I need. My car works. All the things that would constitute a crisis are going ok. I can’t say great—who can say great with any sense of security or certainty—because there are things… Read more

  • ATMN Podcast Episode: Micah Belong- We Belong To Each Other

    ATMN Podcast Episode: Micah Belong- We Belong To Each Other

    Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through podcast, poetry, and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. This week, we get to talk to Micah… Read more

  • The Mystery of Relationship

    The Mystery of Relationship

    A post for Trinity Sunday. Read more

  • Praying Around

    Praying Around

    Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through podcast, poetry, and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. It takes me about twenty minutes to pray… Read more

  • Eucharist Power

    Eucharist Power

    Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through podcast, poetry, and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. In the name of the Father, the Son,… Read more

  • (Not) Talking About God

    (Not) Talking About God

    Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through podcast, poetry, and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. I spill a lot of words talking about… Read more

  • The Death and Resurrection of Mary the Tower

    The Death and Resurrection of Mary the Tower

    Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through podcast, poetry, and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. Miriam had stayed and stood at the tomb,… Read more

  • Death by Death

    Death by Death

    Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through poetry and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. He didn’t look like himself. I guess no one… Read more

  • Liminal Space

    Liminal Space

    Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through poetry and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. The world feels like a tire fire. War in… Read more

  • When We Were on Fire Again

    When We Were on Fire Again

    We used to burn so brightly. There was something beautiful about our passion, our fire. It glowed and flickered, raged and shown brightly. We were the future, pastors, worship leaders, evangelists. We were the Joshua generation, charged with ushering the church into a promised land in the midst of a dark culture surrounding us. We… Read more

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