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Kirby Jones

Rolling Stones: My Sexuality is not my Burden to Bear

I was a junior in high school when I heard the Sisyphus Myth for the first time. It was an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday morning in…

Oct 11, 2020

Rolling Stones: My Sexuality is not my Burden to Bear

Oct 11, 2020

Kirby Jones

Discussions about Mental Health and the Church Must Acknowledge Religious Trauma

Alright, Church. I’ve got good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first? Let’s start with the good news. As conversations…

Jul 5, 2020

Discussions about Mental Health and the Church Must Acknowledge Religious Trauma

Jul 5, 2020

Kirby Jones

Teaching Was my Dream Job. Until it Wasn’t.

On a rainy Friday afternoon about one year ago, I slumped dejectedly in the front seat of my car, strewn with ungraded student papers and…

Apr 25, 2020

Teaching Was my Dream Job. Until it Wasn’t.

Apr 25, 2020

Kirby Jones

Troubled Waters: What the COVID-19 Pandemic is Revealing About American Culture

In 2005, famous writer David Foster Wallace delivered a speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College that has become one of the most…

Apr 18, 2020

Troubled Waters: What the COVID-19 Pandemic is Revealing About American Culture

Apr 18, 2020

Kirby Jones

When All is Not Well: Making Sense of Holy Week During a Global Pandemic

Centuries before the Coronavirus swept the globe, St. Julian of Norwich found herself confined to the rectory of an English church at the…

Apr 10, 2020

When All is Not Well: Making Sense of Holy Week During a Global Pandemic

Apr 10, 2020

Kirby Jones

Kirby Jones

Wake Forest Divinity and Counseling Student. I write about religion, culture, education, and occasionally my obsession with personality tests.

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