Through the Year with OneWord Journal
With OneWord Journal, these 12 words shaped the 2016 year: Questions, Breathe, Alive, True, Seed, Island, Marvel, Reflection, Harvest, Psalms, Table. Wonder
It’s always interesting to see how people engage with each of these words. We loved all of our contributions this year, but want to point out some highlights. Revisit some of these or discover them for the first time.
ART
Sean Shimmel’s My Battery’s Ran Dead
Liita Forsyth’s Hope
ART—WORDS
Dan Haase’s All of Nature Rejoicing mixes narrative poetry and photography
Vikki William’s Grow
Sean Shimmel’s Even the Meadows Reach
CONFESSION
Lindsay Callaway’s Light Side of a Dark Narrative
Ashley Barney’s Ire: A ChurchFolk Reflection on Anger and Grace
DEVOTION
Steve Krogh’s Sleep in Somewhat Heavenly Peace
ESSAY
Trisha Williams’ Come Let Us Reason Together
Wallace Alcorn's The Sense and Nonsense of the Incarnation
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Curt Miller’s Harvesting Hope in a Refugee Camp
Jacob Kimathi’s The Word Shared
The Isaev Family’s Journey Through HIV and Adoption
POETRY
Allyssa Carlberg's Why? (Why!)
Dan Haase’s Watermelon Elegy
Lorraine Triggs's A Tweaking of Psalm 23
Wil Triggs's Psalm for the Hidden Church
PROFILE
Cherye Berg’s Zeal-tirement
Eric Hamsho’s Young, Male and Syrian
STORY
Virginia Hughes gave us many. Here are two:
Nancy Tally’s I Remember Tables
Rachel Rim's The Boy With A Face Like Moses
VIDEO and MUSIC
ChurchFolk’s Wayfaring Stranger
and their Jesus Lives and So Shall I
and for Christmas, ChurchFolk’s Go Tell It On The Mountain
Come back in 2017. We’re starting the year off with the following words:
January: Time
February: Care
March: World