Director of Storytelling @DenverInstitute | PhD, author, Willowbrae Institute aahales.substack.com / Opinions and views stated are my own.
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Job update! After nearly 4 years at Christianity Today, I'm excited to join @denverinstitute as the Director of Storytelling. denverinstitute.org/ashley-h…
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I am finished with:
-my mini independent study
-a 12mi walk around my parish
(some personal news incoming)
-my first day as the Editorial Director at @IFP!
I’m thrilled to be building a better future with this crew of brilliant, ambitious thinkers.
Have a small sabbatical from work and making myself a tiny, weird independent study. (more details tk tk 💜)
What mini-course would you design for yourself?
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In which I wonder if resilience is more corporate than Christian and what metaphors Scripture uses to talk about faithfulness, fortitude, and life through death.
.@aahales puts books from Tish Harrison Warren, John Eldredge, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb in conversation as they take up ancient questions that still haunt us today.
Most pressingly: Is resilience actually what we seek?
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✨ Congratulations to @AndyROlsen for winning the EPA’s first-place award in reporting and feature for his story “An American Deportation.”
Read the piece here: chrst.today/4tBBZ4l
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✨ Congratulations to @Jenpmichel for winning the EPA’s top award for a first-person article.
Read her article “Forget Me Not”: christianitytoday.com/2025/0…
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✨ Congratulations to @aahales for winning the EPA’s first-place award for a critical review.
Read her review of “Blue Like Jazz,” the bestseller that made church cool—and optional: christianitytoday.com/2025/0…
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The May/June issue of Christianity Today is here!
With writing from @ThomasSKidd, @masayett, @drmoore, @jeff_bilbro, @bonniekristian, @myleswerntz, @KSPrior, @matthew_loftus, @DanielKWilliam4, @mattleeanderson, @AnnaKateShelt, @Justin_W_Earley, and others.christianitytoday.com/magazi…
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“Every Moment Holy” author Douglas McKelvey spoke with @aahales about our lack of rites of passage in American culture and about how prayer can create meaning by orienting people to God’s larger story.
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@caityweaver is an incredible writer. If she’s interested in something, you’ll be interested in it by the end of the first paragraph
I read this article by @caityweaver out of spite. Why would @TheAtlantic put *on the cover* such a frivolous story?
But I am humbled. It’s amazing. Send-to-mom-the-English-teacher amazing. Teach-this-in-school amazing.
Just perfect.
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Got some big news today! I'm thrilled to finally be able to share the cover for my forthcoming book: "In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers"
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Amazing: LA schools will eliminate personal devices in K and 1st grade, and limit use in grades 2-5, and give parents more options. I think this will catch on nationally:
The Los Angeles Unified school board has voted to require screen time limits and encourage the use of pen and paper for assignments, becoming the first major school district to do so. @SamChampion reports.
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The University of Pennsylvania, to their eternal glory, has digitized hundreds of rare recordings by great poets.
We're talking Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Rich, Ashbery, Eliot, and more.
Check it out here!
writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
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Dear Hollywood, please read the room.
Give us wholesome stories that call out the best in us and draw our attention upward.
Use all your creativity to help us think about the timeless struggles & joys of the human condition.
You will make more money & more good in the world.
“Project Hail Mary” shone brightly in its fifth weekend of release, picking up $20.5 million. That brings the sci-fi adventure’s domestic gross to a stellar $285.1 million. bit.ly/4mzwlMU
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For the first time ever, hear Christopher Plummer’s original vocals (replacing Bill Lee’s dubbing in the 1965 film and original soundtrack) featured in The Sound of Music.
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Artemis II has been a constant reminder that being human is a gift and being human together is a joy.
That’s why it kept us following along.
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“With their giddy awe and humility in space’s vastness, the Artemis II astronauts modeled we are more than tribal infighting, wars, an unstable economy, and the countless daily burdens of life in a fallen world,” writes @aahales.
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How very desperate we are for joy. My latest for CT on Artemis II and the joy of being human at @CTmagazine: christianitytoday.com/2026/0…
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RT @JonHaidt: Norway is reversing its mistaken 2016 decision to give every student an iPad, which damaged education immediately. Many count…
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Join @drmoore and @KSPrior on Wednesday, April 15, at 1:30 p.m. CDT for a conversation on how the church should respond to infertility.
Members can register at the link at MoreCT.com/Register.
Not a member? Join CT with 25% off at OrderCT.com/Start.
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Someone at @nytopinion PLEASE get a religiously literate copy editor for @DouthatNYT's great show
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