Carolyn Givens
Carolyn Givens

Carolyn Clare Givens works in Communications at Church at Charlotte in North Carolina and does freelance writing and editing. A displaced Northerner now exploring the foreign ways of the south, she has previously bumped around the world, both as a missionary kid and as an adult. She revels in good stories, good music, and wrestles with the intersection of faith, art, vocation, and culture. Online, she hangs out at her website, carolyncgivens.com, on Twitter, and at her page on Facebook.

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From the Archives: The Art of Baseball

It’s baseball season once more.

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The Bible Quiz Subculture

The strangeness of my subculture hit home when I watched the documentary Bible Quiz, they story of two teenage members of a Bible quizzing team who memorized hundred of verses to win a spot in the national tournament.

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The Ice Bucket Challenge

The world that ought to be ought to be a world without diseases.

Carrie Givens’ personal story of ALS and how, though the #IceBucketChallenge’s mode of promoting ‘awareness’ seems superficial, she’s glad for it.

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Listening Walls

As I watched a soccer match in that stadium on a June day seventy years later, a little part of me wondered what those walls—built for the glory of Hitler—thought about that crowd.

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Our Beautiful Common Humanity

Carolyn Givens interviews Ibiyinka Alao, an Arts Ambassador to the United Nations from Nigeria.

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The Beauty of Americana

A defense of the work of Ron Block.

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Risky Art: A Review of Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing"

Perhaps the best thing of all about “Much Ado About Nothing” is that it actually got made—that a group of friends decided they wanted to do this, made the time for it, and did it well

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