Deborah J Chang

Photo by Jon Flobrant on Unsplash There’s a moment in Fear and Trembling where Søren Kierkegaard describes what he calls the leap of faith. Not a calculated decision. Not a guaranteed outcome. A leap. It’s the moment where the math stops working… and something in you decides to move anyway. If you’ve ever tried to do something that didn’t make logical sense—but felt necessary—you’ve probably been there. The seduction of the leap In The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron offers a version of this idea...

"We the People" -- The animating words of a covenant that holds only if we do “This is why God put you here at this time.” Historian John Meacham said it almost casually to Stephen Colbert, after Colbert made a joke comparing the idea of seizing Greenland for “national security” to simply grabbing someone else’s tie because you want it. The audience laughed — but the laughter landed because the analogy exposed something real. Meacham had been talking about his book American Struggle:...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about parts – not in the abstract, but in the deeply practical, day-to-day way that determines whether relationships survive strain or quietly fall apart. This reflection has been shaped by several threads converging at once: my ongoing work around parts with the Crappy Childhood Fairy Anna Runkle , insights from Jessica Fern ’s writing on attachment and relational shapes, a sermon I heard recently at Riverside, and two quotes that are often framed as opposites...