Hunter Sharpless

Hunter Sharpless

Hunter Sharpless is a graduate of the University of Iowa, MFA candidate in nonfiction writing at the University of Minnesota, and author of the forthcoming Song of the Fool from Wipf and Stock Publishers. Follow him at @HunterSharpless and www.huntersharpless.com.

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Articles


The Serpent and the Center

March 3, 2015

I am someone who believes that we live in an age no worse and no better than any other age before us, and indeed after us. I do, though, think we live in the noisiest age. How, then, can one be silent?


New Seeds of Revolution

January 26, 2015

I believe that the injustice of the world finds its birth in the individual human heart—in my individual human heart—not in systems or powers external to me.


A Little Gentler: Contemplative Prayer and the Evangelical Church

September 25, 2014

When I was young I thought that meditation was yoga, Eastern, other. Definitely pagan, probably idolatrous. And I’m afraid that many evangelical kids today feel—and are taught—exactly what I believed.


Giving Freely to the Poor

September 2, 2014

The myth of self-reliance is that we are self-reliant. We need help. We shouldn’t be ashamed to admit so.