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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…