Chaya Barash

#22: What does repair look like?

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March 7, 2026 | Chicago I’m in Chicago for the culmination of Luvvie Ajayi Jones extraordinary six-month Mastermind on Book Marketing. I have not experienced quite this feeling of joyful anticipation since the snowy day I defended my PhD dissertation at Princeton.  I felt both excited and scared when I was prepping for the Story2 … Read more

#21: What does it mean to forgive ourselves?

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When I imagine taking the best parts of all the world’s religions and making one vessel that holds all that is ideal in each of them, I think of Jesus as the exemplar of human forgiveness.  The spring after my father died – I was 16 and in eleventh grade – I leaned on my … Read more