By Name · Week 2 · Monday · BULLIES Every Monday at ten, her team meets in the same glass room, and every Monday her manager finds a way to use the nickname. It started her first month. She asked…
The Nickname in the Meeting
He Answered God First
By Name · Week 2 · Sunday · BULLIES Last week the voice was a crowd. It was loud and it was everywhere, but it was not really aimed at anybody. This week the voice has a name and a…
I Can’t Mute It for Him
By Name · Week 1 · Saturday · SCREENS My thirteen-year-old is in a group chat that is about one video game. Him and a bunch of his friends. When it gets going it can run for hours, and the…
The Porch Nobody Saw
By Name · Week 1 · Friday · SCREENS She is sixteen, and her church has split into teams to paint porches on a Saturday. Her team got a little house with a sagging porch and a woman in her…
The Screenshot
By Name · Week 1 · Thursday · SCREENS He is a college sophomore, and at two in the morning a friend from his hall sent him a long message. His friend is failing two classes. He has not told…
Everyone Else’s Anniversary
By Name · Week 1 · Wednesday · SCREENS Today would have been forty years. She is sixty-four, and she is sitting in his chair, the big one by the window that nobody else ever sat in, with the tablet…
He Was Right, and He Closed the Laptop
By Name · Week 1 · Tuesday · SCREENS It is ten minutes to midnight. He is forty-four, his wife went to bed an hour ago, and he has spent that hour in the comments under a news article, going…
The Post She Didn’t Send
By Name · Week 1 · Monday · SCREENS She is on the third level of a hospital parking garage with the engine off. Her son is ten. This afternoon a doctor used a word she had to look up…
Who Gets a Vote
By Name · Week 1 · Sunday · SCREENS Before we talk about screens, I want to read you two verses in the order Jesus said them. You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then…