Monthly Archives: October 2016
by Hannah Brenton | Oct 31, 2016
I’ll walk past those significant spaces on campus that graciously held my tear-filled conversations, all-nighters, hilarious pranks, Calvin walks, and breakups. I see new students carrying on life; these are their spaces now.
by Erin Smith | Oct 30, 2016
However, when I found my predecessor’s clipboard, book of short stories, and spatula scattered around my room, I was tempted to see my move as a predictable step on an already well-worn path.
by Neil GIlbert | Oct 29, 2016
Do you understand?
I cock my head; wait, again?
Elusive fluency.
by Bekah (Williamson) Medendorp | Oct 28, 2016
I am as control-hungry, wealth-lusting, and greed-seeking as every antagonist in Narnia. I am worse because I am not fictional. I fear Aslan because he loves me regardless.
by Brad Zwiers | Oct 27, 2016
I believe in God the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. These were borrowed words and they were not mine.
by Nick Meekhof | Oct 26, 2016
I believe that God sees enough glimmers of faith and goodwill in our everyday conduct to keep Him convicted of our worth.
by Lauren (Boersma) Harris | Oct 24, 2016
A definition. A rationalization. An attribute. An un-plumbable well of existence.
by Julia LaPlaca | Oct 23, 2016
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
by Matt Medendorp | Oct 22, 2016
God’s wildness is a multiplied version of the boot-quaking awe we experience when we gaze upon the Grand Canyon.
by Gabe Gunnink | Oct 20, 2016
For this reason, merely believing in “something” is not half-hearted or vague, but both mind-blowing and earth-shattering.
by Mary Margaret Healy | Oct 19, 2016
In a word: I am so hopelessly imperfect it frequently causes me to crawl into a blanket fort and wish the world away.
by Ben DeVries | Oct 18, 2016
If anyone in contemporary America can sympathize with the frustration of first-century Christians awaiting the imminent return of Christ, it’s we Cubs fans.
by Geneva Langeland | Oct 17, 2016
Where moments before had been only a slew of green speckles, I could suddenly see a crouching frog. It had been there all along; I just hadn’t had the skill, the “sight,” to notice it before.
by Andrew Knot | Oct 16, 2016
Because of my extension, my tax deadline fell in a period of the liturgical year called Ordinary Time, which seems more apt than the traditional timing of Tax Day, so close to Passion Week.
by Cassie Westrate | Oct 15, 2016
Hi. My name is Cassie. There’s forever a part of me stuck in the loop of crawling in and out of bed.
by Will Montei | Oct 14, 2016
Because I am, and “I AM,” and love is, and there must be more love out there—“the greatest of these.” For these reasons, I follow in the long tradition of abiding with God in silence.
by Catherine Kramer | Oct 13, 2016
Eventually we’ll we end up here, at Martha’s, on a Tuesday, past our bedtime. For sweet treats, those blessed and treacherous confections.
by Abby Zwart | Oct 12, 2016
The character becomes too old, too practical, or too jaded to believe in the thing that once brought him so much joy. That world, the thing he loved so much and invested so much time in, dies. And something inside him dies, too.
by Elaine Schnabel | Oct 11, 2016
Maybe by the time I’m ninety-six or ninety-seven I’ll see things differently. Maybe I’ll see divine love in the allowance of racial violence, torture, and marginalization.
by Katie Van Zanen | Oct 10, 2016
Christians shouldn’t be surprised that people think we’re assholes. As a collective, we’ve thrown our weight behind some pretty misguided causes.
by Bart Tocci | Oct 9, 2016
I thought, if I just touch the wood of the casket, maybe God will bring him back. What if that happened? How amazing would that be? Then everyone would believe in God.
by Paul Menn | Oct 8, 2016
I believe some things because it is easier than wrestling with the hard questions.
(My agnosticism is a cop out.)
by Josh deLacy | Oct 6, 2016
I believe because I don’t believe in soundbites, How to Win Friends and Influence People, diets, morals of the story, or myself.
by Alissa Anderson | Oct 5, 2016
It is up to the reader to decide which story is true—or if not to determine truth, at least to decide which is the story they will believe.
by Ben Rietema | Oct 4, 2016
Do I cling to God and morality because behind those things there lies a black, incessant void of despair and pointlessness that existentialism can barely put a Hello-Kitty band-aid on?
by Meg Schmidt | Oct 3, 2016
The fun sexy couple that is totally giving you the side eye and feeling really, really uncomfortable because you are just standing there.
by Jacob Schepers | Oct 2, 2016
Certainly the most popular selfie-spot on campus, Touchdown Jesus overlooks the football stadium with Christ and his perpetually upraised arms.
by Katerina Parsons | Oct 1, 2016
This hope beyond reason (though not against reason) is not held in monopoly by Christians, but it is central to Christianity.
