One Year Out
Living the questions in the now and not-yet
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
If you were here a month back, you read the news that in September 2025 I’ll be starting a PhD program at the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts. (Here’s that post if you weren’t here.)
I have been excited to share the journey with you all, even though sharing comes with the fragility of not knowing how the next year will unfold and what could be subject to change. Now that it’s September 2024, we are one year out from the start of that program and all the shifts that will arrive alongside it.
I continue to write about the Coracle fellowship program this year because it has been a truly ideal place for me to learn tools for discernment, to “live the questions” and navigate both my life in Christ and simply life in general this year, which has held a great deal more than I expected it to:
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