Encampments are Nativities
Plus a few other readings
This Holiday season, we’re going to talk about encampments, sweeps, and especially how they collide in the Winter.
In solidarity with those experiencing this terror firsthand, I will donate all of December’s Paid Subscriber earnings to the Sanctuary Supply Depot in Minneapolis, which provides direct aid and life-saving supplies to encampments.
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This week, I wanted to give you some external reading. The first is by me, a year ago, writing on the same themes we’ve been looking at the last few weeks. A week after I wrote it, one of my favorite artists released a piece called “Tent City Nativity,” that (of course) managed to say everything and more in one image than I could say in a whole essay. I like to think they make great companions :)
Read the article here, but not before taking in this image below.
The second, if you’re up for it, is by Hannah Bowman for Sojourners that in many ways inspired me to think of encampments as nativities. It’s an absolutely beautiful piece.
Read that one here
And if you’re still reading here… wow! You’re really dedicated to these reading assignments. This last one is off-syllabus, only for the most bored and needing of reading material. (Don’t read that as an indictment of the writing—I’m just a little shy because it’s about me.)
Fuller Magazine featured me in their latest issue, and it’s now available online. I was really honored to be featured, and then especially to read the article itself. There are ways that I’ve come to articulate my work, and it’s always fascinating to read how others perceive it. The writer here, Liz Cooledge Jenkins, listened deeply and read my book and elicited things that I wouldn’t have necessarily articulated myself, and I found that experience to be really special. Maybe you will, too.
Read that one here
And that’s all! Next week I promise I’ll only give you ONE thing to read.