February 2023 Issue
Hope in times of hopelessness
Christopher Holland
Jesus is coming soon are words that we seem to hear more and more with each passing day. I wholeheartedly agree that the return of Jesus Christ is soon, but recently I have wondered whether that imminence should be our primary source of hope when it concerns “the blessed…
Existential fear and existential hope: Reading biblical apocalyptic in an age of anxiety
Laszlo Gallusz
Even before COVID-19, the world had long been suffering a crisis of hope. Forces are at work, it seems, that we have no control over. Uncertainty—the sense that something has gone wrong worldwide—has brought about a general existential fear. Only 6 percent of people…
He is coming—for you
Charissa Torossian
It is hard for me now to believe that it happened four years ago, but I will never forget the day when I was taken on a drive by my boyfriend to a beautiful national park in California in the United States. We parked and walked alongside a gorgeous river, surrounded…
Hope that does not disappoint
Mark Finley
There is one thing that lifts the human spirit and keeps us going despite the challenges we face. Called “hope,” it is that intangible quality that looks beyond life’s challenges to a better tomorrow. It leads us to live purposeful existences because we know a new…
Three signs of the times
René Gehring
War breaks out in Eastern Europe. Flooding sweeps away towns in the Philippines. An underwater earthquake triggers a tsunami that creates a nuclear catastrophe in Japan. Massive hurricanes devastate Florida. A heat wave triggers fires in California. A pandemic kills…