My work has appeared in RELEVANT magazine, Duke Divinity’s Faith and Leadership, ThinkChristian, The Well Intervarsity, and various other publications. I am also a blog editor for and contributor to Relief Journal. You can read a selection of my non-fiction pieces below.* I try to keep this blog up to date with new writing, but you can also stay up to date by following me on Twitter).
*An in-case-you’re-wondering-note: I was born with the long, Dutch surname Konyndyk (fun fact: it means “bunny on a hill”). My World Renew work is still published under this name. My new creative work, however, is published under my married name, Gallogly (an Irish surname, which, according to my husband, means “warrior.” So, combine all that with the meaning of my first name, and I guess you get one noble yet fierce little bunny on a hill).
Select Reviews and Essays 2012-17
Reading and writing
- Reading and Being Led: On Vanier, Nouwen, and Rolheiser
- On Tutorhood: Teaching Literacy
- The Good that comes from Reading about Horrible Things
- Writing the Words, Living the Story: On Being an Introvert and a Writer
- Redeeming Meandering: Thoughts on the Writing Process
Seasonal reflections
- Kim Jong Il and Christmas in North Korea
- Easter Joy and Holy Joking
- From Ache to Amen: Handel’s Messiah
- Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe
- Between Heaven and Mirth by James Martin
- Through Ambition’s Tunnel
- What’s in a Phrase? by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
- Naked Trees by John Terpstra
- The Tenth Parallel by Eliza Griswold (full/longer review here)
- Beauty Will Save the World by Greg Wolfe
- The Ex-Nun Poems by Jeanine Hathaway
- Small Mechanics by Lorna Crozier
- Summer reading recommendations – 2013
Justice issues
Arts and entertainment
- Adoration and Descent at ‘Downton Abbey’
- Ecclesiastes and the Women of Mad Men
- Alice Munro’s Christian Periphery
Spiritual formation
Adele, had you not “followed” my blog, and laurelscrown, had YOU not commented about “Being Erica,” I probably would not have noticed that article. The timing couldn’t be better. Thank you both. May God redeem.
You seem like an AWESOME person! And you are Canadian – another plus 🙂
per ■The good that comes from reading about horrible things: I was reminded of this from Revelation – Rev 6:9 KJV – And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Rev 6:10 KJV – And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Remembering gives honor sometimes?
I’ve enjoyed looking around here. Thanks for the follow. I just back from a two week cottage vacation in the Ottawa Valley, love Canada.
I really like what you’ve said about the wind turbines situation. It’s an issue in our area that has already gouged many family and friend relationships. I really appreciate how you struggle – along with the rest of us – over the issue of the practical vs. the picturesque.