By Bethany Mahan How does one live out a counter-culture in their every day mundane? My grateful list for the day: -Im grateful for having to wait for the good stuff -The maddening experience of not being in control, especially when I long to know whether or not good things are coming, because it might … Continue reading Counter-Mundane
By Betsy Sholl Each evening I believe in the everlasting and fear by dawn blight will have crept into the garden. But each morning there you are, watery blossoms dripping from the lip of multiple green faucets, a magicians trick of scarf after soft yellow and orange scarf rippling from a sleeve. How to name … Continue reading Begonia
By Jeff Goins, Editor A few weeks ago, Wrecked sat down for coffee with Chris Coppernoll, founder and host of internationally-syndicated Christian radio show Soul2Soul and his publicist Saul to discuss his upcoming book Providence: Once Upon a Second Chance, which comes out September 1 of this year. As a radio personality and singles minister, … Continue reading From Soul2Soul to Providence: Interview with Chris Coppernoll
By Seth Barnes, Jr. and Kevin Max After dropping his car off at the shop, Kevin Max (formerly of DC Talk) took the rental and started toward Starbucks. A short delay by a cop on a bike giving him a ticket, which Kevin comically attributes to the sensitive accelerator pedal, and he was off again. … Continue reading DC Talk’s Kevin Max – Exclusive Interview on The Blood
By Chris Telfer & Erin McKenna 6.25.07 Chris Telfer writes from Swaziland: Three weeks ago while we were finishing up our time in Dondo, Mozambique I opened up an email from my friend Cassie Morgan. She was finishing up her time in Swaziland, Africa and was about to head back to the States. She shared … Continue reading Searching for Donzula
By Jana Alcorn Wrecked interviewed Jana Alcorn a couple of weeks ago at the International Christian Retail Show in Atlanta about her new book “Don’t Throw in the Towel-Hope Again!” The book is about her experience losing five family members in five years. Can you talk about yourself and your experiencewhat youve been writing about? … Continue reading Don’t Throw in the Towel – An Interview
By Amanda Petersen Last week there was an article about sex trade in Thailand. Amanda Petersen has been working with Wrecked since the beginning and recently left for Thailand. She has been there about two weeks. This is a story about her experience thus far with a little background about Nana Plaza. To many, Nana … Continue reading Grace for Sale
By Betsy Sholl These two poems cannot be found in any of Betsy Sholl’s books, only here and in the magazines listed. THE SEA ITSELF Here, on solid ground, a blue jay lands, beautiful and shrill, looking right at me, banging a seed over and over, as if hell never get it rightanother creature I … Continue reading Two Poems by a Poet Laureate
By Kari Miller I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the Lord. -Hosea 2: 19,20 Every girl longs to hear a man pledge his undying love to her. She longs to know that … Continue reading A True Bride of Christ: A widow’s desperation
By CJ Speelman Continued from My House is Empty, Pt. 1: That night, as I tossed and turned in my own clean bed, wrapped in sheets with a fan keeping me cool, Linda haunted my thoughts. Her hollow, encrusted eyes pierced my conscience, her small, gurgling voice kept saying thank you. I wrestled with myself; … Continue reading My House is Empty, Pt. 2