WRITING
from “Calling on the Overturning”
I was stunned to learn that the book my forebear penned, along with her letter to her parents, is considered by historians to be the first autobiographical mention of incest ever written in America.
Overturn, overturn, and overturn, Abigail Bailey prayed. My great-grandmother had prayed for me, yet her prayer had not spared me.
How, I wondered, had God chosen to “adjust the concerns of our family”? Just what kind of legacy had I inherited across eight generations?
What, exactly, had God overturned? So I looked to the words of Ezekiel to find out more about what exactly her prayer might mean.
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I too find myself living in an age of anxiety. Tolkien worried that the Nazis would drop a bomb on him before his work was done. I “doomscroll” my national, state, and local COVID numbers daily.
More Writing
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Published in Christianity Today.
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Published in Christianity Today
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Published in Stark & Main
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Published in the Unmooring
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First published by the Collegeville Institute