I spoke with two women who told me Jesus had saved them from suicide, and one who Jesus had saved from being shot by her boyfriend. I spent the week in a rental car with two other students and a professor, shuttling back and forth across strips of highway and meeting our interview subjects in coffee shops, motel rooms, and their homes. One of my classes that semester involved creating a piece of documentary theater about the cultural schism between conservative Christians and secular liberals, and it had been decided that one part of the writing team would travel to New York to talk to atheists while others of us would be sent to the Midwest to find the believers. Opening lines: When I was twenty I skipped spring break to spend a week in Grand Rapids, Michigan, asking Christians to tell me how they got saved. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University.
Her work has received a Pushcart Prize and was selected for The Best American Essays 2016. The author: Jordan Kisner ’09 has written for n+1, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, GQ, The Guardian, The American Scholar, California Sunday, The New Yorker, The New Republic, New York magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, and Pitchfork, among other publications.
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