R and I are the same age, and we were often classmates in primary and secondary school. When I first started going to church, we were in the same Bible Study group. We were even baptised on the same day.
She was, it seemed, the perfect “church girl”. A talented singer with a vivacious personality. By contrast, I struggled to fit in despite my best attempts.
“You watch wrestling? Why?”
It’s a question I’ve been asked a lot, in tones ranging from confused to disdainful. And I get it.
In the world of tennis, September 2022 will go down in history as the end of an era—the retirement of Roger Federer.
This was the memory that came to mind while I was watching Stranger Things 4 Vol. 1—I was bullied for the first time in my first year of high school.
When I first became a Christian, I didn’t like my home church very much. Even though it was a doctrinally correct church and I essentially grew up in it, I felt like I didn’t really fit in.
We may have been driven to isolation by the pandemic, but many of us are already schooled in its ways. And as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness shows, it is a dangerous way to live.
In this modern day and age of mixed signals between members of the opposite sex, how can we cultivate healthy intergender friendship?
Earlier this month, HBO Max released a reunion special to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Harry Potter films. The event was highly anticipated, with trailers out months ahead of the stream on New Year’s Day.
I shouldn’t be here.
If we lived in a world where Jesus Christ didn’t exist, I would be just another statistic among the world’s teenage suicides. A quiet sufferer who one day decided she had enough and ended it all.