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    Layers
    Sarah Tisdale
    • May 4, 2021

    Layers

    New Poetry by Sarah Tisdale
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    Turning a Metaphor into a Poem
    Bryan McKaig
    • Apr 20, 2021

    Turning a Metaphor into a Poem

    I don’t consider myself a poet. Occasionally a songwriter, but barely that. The occasion of this poem was the commissioning of a new church.
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    Awakening
    Debbie Moody
    • Jan 25, 2021

    Awakening

    As the earth falls into a deep slumber, we sit in anticipation and stillness.
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    Hope: We Do Not Say Deserve
    Foundling House
    • Nov 23, 2020

    Hope: We Do Not Say Deserve

    This coming Sunday marks the beginning of Advent, the yearly remembrance and celebration of the coming of Jesus, the Son of God. It's...
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    Surviving the Pandemic as an Artist
    Tony Sobota
    • May 20, 2020

    Surviving the Pandemic as an Artist

    2020 started off so promising.  Our son had a meltdown-free 1st birthday party, the Titans kept Tom Brady and the Patriots from another ...
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    Empathy and the Devil
    Foundling House
    • Nov 19, 2019

    Empathy and the Devil

    It’s apropos that I’ve been rereading C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters with a friend now. Weekly, we pore over a couple of chapters...
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    Word + Song preview: Drew Miller
    Foundling House
    • Oct 30, 2019

    Word + Song preview: Drew Miller

    Tonight is the night! WORD + SONG is here! In celebration, we’re giving you another little preview of what’s going down this evening in...
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    bleeding in, bleeding out
    Chris Wheeler
    • Oct 21, 2019

    bleeding in, bleeding out

    Orchid – Josie Koznarek All the time I knew you carried weight upon your back in every tremor when you spoke, in each “I could never…”...
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    Word + Song preview: Matthew Clark
    Foundling House
    • Oct 15, 2019

    Word + Song preview: Matthew Clark

    It’s a great time to give you a preview of things to come! Matthew Clark, one of the three featured artists headlining Foundling House’s...
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    Lamentations for Today
    Kevin Still
    • Jun 17, 2019

    Lamentations for Today

    This is a collection of laments I wrote for a worship service I led with a friend in my church. Modern worship is a bit too positive...
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    A Castle On a Hill: an Interview with Jacob Stock
    Foundling House
    • May 30, 2019

    A Castle On a Hill: an Interview with Jacob Stock

    For several years now, Jacob and Melissa Stock have been running a delightful, slightly otherworldly retreat center in Strawberry Plains,...
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    The Other Endgame
    Foundling House
    • May 22, 2019

    The Other Endgame

    First things first: spoiler alert. This is going to get messy, because I got messy. I got the last good seat at the 9:30 showing of...
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    Abby Wheeler, Creator of Heartworks
    Foundling House
    • Feb 5, 2019

    Abby Wheeler, Creator of Heartworks

    Heartworks is a brand new, up-and-coming organization dedicated to serving the refugee and resettled population in Knoxville through art...
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    Pieces Go Missing
    Carolyn Givens
    • Dec 24, 2018

    Pieces Go Missing

    Screenshot from the video for “Snow” by Sleeping at Last The day before December began, my grandma slipped into eternity. She’d spent 100...
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    Holy Secret
    Jen Yokel
    • Dec 17, 2018

    Holy Secret

    The old man is snoring again. It’s the only sound that escapes his lips these days. So she lies awake listening, wishing she could...
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    All Creatures Here Below
    Matthew Cyr
    • Sep 4, 2018

    All Creatures Here Below

    Original Photo by Adam Whipple The road to the lake is so twisted that one stretch is named “The Dragon’s Tail.” Our truck, bristling...
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    Charging the Congregation
    Foundling House
    • Aug 9, 2018

    Charging the Congregation

    I sat in the passenger seat of my friends’ car as Indiana beamed under a rare mild July day outside. Cornfields sped by and washed into...
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    The WordPlayers Present: Jane Eyre
    Foundling House
    • Jul 17, 2018

    The WordPlayers Present: Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë’s masterwork Jane Eyre is something most of us read in grade school. We remember the gilded Victorian prose laid over...
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    When Your Words Disappear
    Kate Hinson
    • Jun 18, 2018

    When Your Words Disappear

    “Vulnerable” by Kate Hinson I write. Or I should say, I used to write, and I loved figuring out what I thought and felt through the...
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    Burwell Gardens
    Foundling House
    • Jun 4, 2018

    Burwell Gardens

    On the west corner of Burwell Avenue and McMillan Street in Knoxville, Tennessee, sat a vacant lot. To the north, Sharp’s Ridge rose in a...
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