Rachel Sturges

Rachel Sturges is working on a collection of essays called Backyard Studies. She lives in Canton, New York, with her husband and two sons.

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A Wider Space

To what end was I at sixteen bent? Toward learning how to write, yes, but also toward making sense of my life and God’s place in it.

By Rachel Sturges

August 13, 2020

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Waterway

God is everywhere; for those who do not find him so easily in church pews, the ocean shore or a patterned turtle shell may be places to seek his presence.

By Rachel Sturges

May 16, 2020

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Feathers

What we find outside are physical manifestations of the holy, representative of the sloughing off of old skin, the salt of blood and the sea, signs of the divine.

By Rachel Sturges

December 23, 2019

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A Wicked Impunity

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Books

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