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Prisma is short for prismatic. It is a reminder that everything is more than it seems, and that visual limitations have more to do with the see-er than with the image itself. Richard Rohr once said, “God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.” In this day and age— and dare I naively suggest throughout history?— as we wrestle with current events and our beliefs about the metaphysical, we can become kinda rigid, like a train following only one track. While sticking to the same route can be comforting in some ways, it doesn’t make room for change or growth. This newsletter is my attempt to help you see the same ol’, same ol’ in new, unique, and surprising ways. As a mother to a cancer survivor, a third-culture-kid, a former fundamentalist Christian, and a seminary student working on an M.Div. degree, I feel specially poised to do just that. Want to read more?