Basements


Things in the Basement
We Used to Live Here
Take Your Turn, Teddy
J.L. Bryan
Ghosts are drawn to the dark underground areas of a house like bats to a cave. Maybe it reminds them of the graves where they belong.
J.L. Bryan, The Crawling Darkness

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the mystery lurking at the base of all things. We build a framework on top of mystery because we need someplace to live, some manner of surviving nature's fury and our mundane daily needs. ...more
Elizabeth J. Andrew, On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness

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