Carrie McKean

From the New York Times to The Atlantic to our local paper, here’s where you can find my words:

• Christianity Today | May 15, 2024 | The Miracle of the Ear
• Christianity Today | April 22, 2024 | Panic Won’t Protect the Planet
• Christianity Today | April 16, 2024 | What We Can Offer if We Uncircle the Wagons
• Christianity Today | March 14, 2024 | Bad News May Be a Burning Bush (In honor of my friend Ramon Billhimer.)
• Christianity Today | February 22, 2024 | Like-Minded, Not Like Me
• Christianity Today | December 19, 2023 | Filthy Night, Fetid Night
• Christianity Today | November 21, 2023 | My Unlikely, Cross-Cultural Friendsgiving
• Midland Reporter-Telegram | November 4, 2023 | Midland Needs Healthy Public Schools; Midland Needs this Bond | Download PDF
• Christianity Today | October 24, 2023 | You Can Only Break the News of War so Gently
• Christianity Today | August 30, 2023 | My Pastor Friend Likes Trump’s Border Policy. He Also Shelters Migrants.
• The Atlantic | November 23, 2022 | My Family Oversimplified My Brother’s Adoption Story (This essay was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which Atlantic editors recommend a single must-read article.)
• Reason | July 11, 2022 | Keeping Americans in the Dark
• Texas Monthly | May 25, 2022 | Amid the Baby Formula Shortage in Midland, Community and Conspiracies
• The Week | March 23, 2022 | Why people fighting for their lives would stop to save a statue
• The Week | March 5, 2022 | On parenting as history starts up again
• The Atlantic | January 27, 2022 | First, You Decide That Kids Belong in School
• The Week | December 25, 2021 | The absurdity and necessity of hope in another COVID Christmas | Download PDF
• Texas Monthly | November 29, 2021 | How Refugees From Myanmar Have Embraced Midland – And Its Conservative Politics | Download PDF
• New York Times | May 12, 2021 | Are We Following The Science Or Our Tribes? (This essay also appeared in the May 13, 2021 print edition.) | Download PDF
• Midland Reporter-Telegram | December 31, 2020 | We Were Left With Just Enough
• Texas Monthly | October 20, 2020 | Midland School Discards Its Confederate Name | Download PDF
• Midland Reporter-Telegram | August 9, 2020 | Not Opening Schools Will Be Devastating For Vulnerable Kids
• New York Times | April 30, 2020 | This ‘Big Oil’ Bust Is Killing My Town | Download PDF