Blog Resolutions, Regrets, and the New Year Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best for a happy 2023 and better luck with your resolutions than I’ll…Allison Vander BroekDecember 31, 2022
Blog Rest Revisited Hersey’s work frames rest as a justice issue, pointing to the intersection of rest with social, political, racial, and economic…Allison Vander BroekOctober 29, 2022
Blog Laziness Does Not Exist: Rest, Burnout, and the American Grind Once you’re forced to slow down, you have time to reflect and take stock of your life and what you…Allison Vander BroekSeptember 24, 2022
Blog The Good Place and the Quest for a Shared Moral Vision It's a kind of beginner’s guide to moral philosophy. Schur’s book is accessible, summarizing and breaking down various philosophical thought…Allison Vander BroekJuly 30, 2022
Blog On the end of Roe I’m trying to stay at least a little hopeful because I know it’s possible to change your mind on reproductive…Allison Vander BroekJuly 2, 2022
Blog Racism, Whiteness, and Facing the Past The symbolic power of Barack Obama’s presidency—that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons from taking up residence…Allison Vander BroekJune 4, 2022
Blog Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed and the Scandals of Evangelicalism The stories of Mars Hill and Hillsong share many similarities. Celebrity pastors, all men of course, wielding large amounts of…Allison Vander BroekApril 23, 2022
Blog That Funny Feeling I’ve had that funny feeling most recently watching the news out of Ukraine. It’s horrifying, disconcerting, and disorienting and yet…Allison Vander BroekMarch 12, 2022
Blog Finding God in the Waves (Revisited) When I first read Finding God in the Waves in early 2017, I had only recently left evangelicalism.Allison Vander BroekFebruary 26, 2022
Blog Climate Change, Resilience, and Battling Indifference Two of the best novels I read in 2021 were Bewilderment by Richard Powers and Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony…Allison Vander BroekJanuary 15, 2022