{"id":10997,"date":"2025-04-23T01:57:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T01:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:15:44","slug":"opening-remarks-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/opening-remarks-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"10997\" class=\"elementor elementor-10997\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3fdb4e9e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3fdb4e9e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>Dear Reader,<\/p><p>The Christian doctrine of grace is a world-changing idea, a notion that flips all power structures and hierarchies on their heads. It is, among other things, prodigal: God pours it out, like rain, on both the evil and the good, on those who accept it and those who reject it, with equally extravagant lavishness. \u201cGod goes,\u201d as Christian Wiman writes, \u201cbelonging to every riven thing he\u2019s made.\u201d It is this sheer liberality of God\u2019s free gifts to his disordered and disorderly creatures that we explore in this issue of <i>Fare Forward<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p><p>In this issue, Ralph James Savarese shares the unexpected gifts of poetry shared without the expectation of professional acclaim or reward. Tulio Huggins writes about growing up on Chick Tracks&#8211;and how both because and in spite of them, he found his spiritual home in the Catholic Church. And Alexander Pyles describes his path to a sense of belonging in the faith through the most unlikely of paths: the writings of atheist philosophers. We hope that these essays will encourage you and remind you of the unexpected and even shocking ways that God works in the world. 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