Tearing Up the Floorboards (SOL)

I grew up in my parent's church; it's hard to think about how all-consuming that life was. The intensity and the pace would not have been sustainable. Once my father left the church, the strict norms the church adopted were eased at our house. Still a holy man with a personal relationship with Christ, he …

In Search of More Color (SOL)

“Just please be quiet,” my mom says as she hands my brother and me pens. We pull out the handouts from our Sunday school class and unfold them and look for the blank spaces to draw. With those pens, we begin to draw. For some reason, we are drawn into world-building. We build a world …