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More welcome than you know, less important than you think.

More welcome than you know, less important than you think.

On letting down your community and realizing that all of you will be okay.

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I remember the first time I read Yining Chiu, on a lunch break, in the summer of 2022. I was on an unsteady lawn chair in the backyard with an iced coffee, reading her

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essay “Like & Subscribe for a Chance at Eternal Life.” I was reading it slowly, and my mind was twisting around her ideas about social media, self-mythologizing, Hillsong and Zadie Smith…

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Christianity Today and Teen Vogue contributor; former columnist at Inkwell. Following Jesus Christ, believing all of history will resolve in him ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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