In which our own Marie Curran reads and reflects from her essay "Kara, I Was Animal." As we start a new series on enfleshed examples of Bearing Witness, Reclaiming Kinship, Marie's work prompts us to consider bearing witness (or failing to) across socioeconomic lines, art's role in that redemptive possibility, and a where the gospel happens when if it's not happening to us. Neal Curran adds musical reflections Wesley Randolph Eader and Tom Waits.