About

Finding Tangle is a forum to call forth the moral imagination of our society.

Tangle is one of the lead characters in a short faerie tale by nineteenth century author George MacDonald called The Golden Key.  I suppose there are many ways the idea of “finding” Tangle could be interpreted, but to me it expresses the journey we are all called to travel in life as we grow into our true selves: the selves God created us to be, the new selves we are clothed in by the grace of God. In the story MacDonald poignantly describes the process of maturation we can experience as we search for the place that our heart longs for most of all, the “land from whence the shadows fall.”

The closer we get to this place – to the arms of God – the more beautiful we become.  Through the trials and joys of this life we are thus transformed into beautiful creatures of wisdom and discernment by the refining strength of a youthfully matured spirit.

As the author, I have a BA in Political Science, an MA in History of Christianity, and I also completed graduate level coursework in International Politics. I first began my adulthood as an evangelical conservative Republican (albeit a libertarian leaning one) and have since changed a lot both in my political and religious beliefs.

May we never stop growing, never stop learning, and never stop seeking after the heart of the One who created us to share in His glory.

~ Katherine Anne Glenn

Since first creating this blog I got married, had four children in five years, and moved seven times (three times cross country).  I’ve learned a great deal in this time of silence, mostly about how much of the journey I have yet to traverse. Due to the overwhelming interest in my post on Miroslav Volf and Allah at Wheaton, my essay on Erasmus and Machiavelli, and my tribute to Christina Grimmie, I hope to write again with some regularity as time permits.

My own views evolved quite a lot over time, so I likely do not agree with all of these past posts of mine. I leave them here for reflection on this path of growth we all are beckoned into as a part of that much revered process called growing up. If you have read anything here that interests or inspires please check back for more.