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Essays & Articles


Published in Adelaide Literary Magazine
I’m very happy to share that my essay “The Wonder of It All” has been published in the October 2026 issue of Adelaide Literary Magazine. Even better, I woke up this morning to find the essay featured on the magazine’s homepage. “The Wonder of It All” is about something I seem to think about more and more these days: how much of life we still don’t understand - and how maybe that mystery isn’t something we need to solve. Maybe wonder is enough. I’m grateful to the editors at A

David Gourgues
Sep 251 min read


Still Searching Continues
Over the past several months, I've been quietly working on something that has become deeply meaningful to me. My next book, Still Searching: Essays on Finding Meaning in an Age of Uncertainty, continues to grow as I write, revise, and refine what I believe is my most personal work yet. Rather than offering easy answers, these essays explore the questions many of us carry through life - faith and doubt, grief and hope, leadership and curiosity, friendship and forgiveness, and

David Gourgues
Jul 241 min read


I Will Be a Guest on the Mark MI Words Podcast
I’m excited to share that I’ll soon be joining Mark MI Words for a conversation about some of the questions that have shaped my life and my writing. We’ll be talking about mental health, grief, resilience, leadership, faith, doubt, and the search for meaning - the same themes that run through Resurrection Fern and my upcoming book, Still Searching. One of the reasons I said yes to this conversation is because Mark creates space for honest conversations about mental health and

David Gourgues
Jul 231 min read
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