Issue 3: Lazarus “Lazarus, come out!” Jesus’s first words to His resurrected friend demonstrate His power over death itself – even Lazarus, dead for four days, can be raised through Christ’s intervention. But more than just a show of divine power, these words are an invitation to greater intimacy with Read more…
Issue 4: Living Water “Whoever drinks the water I shall give,” Christ tells the Samaritan woman in John 4, “will never thirst.” In a culture which often disdains the possibility of everlasting fulfillment, Christ’s words might strike us as fanciful. To hope for perfect satisfaction in anything, it seems, is Read more…
By Nikko Wheeler Water has been essential throughout most of my life. As a kid, my dad was in the Navy. He was stationed in Panama City Beach, working at the Experimental Diving Unit. When he wasn’t working, we’d go to the base pool, where we spent much of Read more…
By Terry Culpepper In the wake of Pope Benedict XVI’s death and passage into eternal life, it seems to me rather natural to consider his book, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life. Even though it is a dense academic work originally written for his graduate students, the then-Joseph Ratzinger offers us 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 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 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…