By Jack Moore An elderly man sits on his front porch, overlooking an old garden filled with azaleas. They have just passed their prime and are going to wilt soon. These will be the last azaleas he will see in the garden. His wife, who planted and cultivated them, passed Read more…
By Sophia Eberwein “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke Him and said to Him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ Read more…
By Madeleine Roberts You’ve mistaken me for Righteousness I fear A woman on her own (She thinks she’s on her own) Will wager with the devil When she fights alone (She thinks she fights alone) Some words kick up Mountains in the mind And that’s how they’re true You’ve mistaken Read more…
By Walker Haynes The connection between water and life is more or less self-evident. Drinking water is essential for life, and all farms need the water of rain or irrigation to grow food. Bodies of water on Earth are teaming with life, from the largest whale to the smallest plankton. Read more…
by Spencer Smolenski If five years ago you told me I would one day become a Catholic, I would have called you crazy. At that time, I identified as an atheist, seeing religion as a superstition that irrationally placed faith above reason. This idea pitted my lifelong interest in science Read more…
by Declan Hurley Lent is a forty-day period of charitable works, prayer, and fasting beginning on Ash Wednesday that more than a billion Christians worldwide observe in anticipation of Easter Sunday. In short, Lent is an opportunity for Christians to renew their relationship with God, elevating it to new heights Read more…
by Cael Saxton While the image of Christianity that first comes to mind for some might be off-putting, most Christians follow Christ in much more subtle ways. If I had to boil down my faith to one effect, following Christ gives light to my life, and thus allows me to Read more…
by Madeleine Roberts From the first spring we learned enough of mauve and purple petalstuff, wisteria curled in peacock plumes, and Eden’s honeysweet perfumes, to know that dying never fits the ground, and though the earth forgets the sound of its revival song, the winter cannot linger long.
by Walker Haynes Many people with a faith background will know that John 11:35 is the shortest verse in the Bible. It simply reads, “Jesus wept.” The brevity of the verse does not indicate a lack of meaning. Toward the beginning of his over 6500-word sermon on this verse, the Read more…
by Madeline Busse Streets stained white with salt Like bleached desert bones Nakedly reflect cold light, Bordering grass brown from snow now gone. On my walk to class, the sun emerges: The wind still slices, but the sky is blue Windows once grey glow with midmorning Stone walls catch rays Read more…