By BJ Harris How did you get started with magic? It started when I was nine years old when I got a magic set for Christmas from my grandmother. It was not at all what I wanted for Christmas that year. When I first got it I was like, I cannot believe she bought me … Continue reading Interviewing an Award-Winning Illusionist
By Tom Davis Continued from Part 1: I could hardly believe what I was hearing. How many communities in Swaziland are also facing this sad reality? 46% is one thing, but 80% Lord Jesus. What can be done? Who is left to help care for the tidal wave of orphans left all alone? A nation … Continue reading Help! Half Our People Are Dying, Pt. 2
By Ryan Stewart Ryan Stewart is an accomplished photographer, traveling the world. These are some kids he met at a “care point” for orphans in Swaziland, Africa: Ryan, what’s going on here? This is a care point about twenty minutes from Manzini, Swaziland. A care point is essentially a day care/after school type of place. … Continue reading Care Point Kids
By Tom Davis I’ve often wondered what hell is like. What would it look like to visit hell? Ive wondered about this often, not for the pleasure, or the curiosity just the reality what its actually like there. The pictures in my mind, the sounds, the rotting smells are all too terrible to imagine. Death … Continue reading Help! Half Our People Are Dying, Pt. 1
By Adrienne Ashby In Cape Town, South Africa one midwife named Mitzy is fighting for a new, more organic way of caring for premature babies. Years of being the Matron nurse at the main public hospital in Cape Town finally paid off and the big cats up top allowed her five beds in the maternity … Continue reading The Church and The Incubator
By Tom Schiavon John Donne Holy Sonnet XIV. “Batter my heart, three person’d God; for, you” BATTER my heart, three person’d God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; A few days ago I was hanging out with some friends, and there were some new people there. For whatever reason, … Continue reading In Response of John Donne
By Jason Wenell An online magazine that attempts to challenge men in particular, Prodigal Son publishes every other Thursday. Right now they feature Gary Carter: an Exclusive Interview of a former pro baseball player, The Devil’s Wedge: an examination of the effect sexual sin is having on men, and more. Here’s what the founder Jason … Continue reading Prodigal Son Magazine
By Kari Miller “Praise the Lord, O my soul; and forget not his benefits who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle.” -Psalm … Continue reading Climbing Out of the Pit
By Bethany Mahan How does one live out a counter-culture in their every day mundane? My grateful list for the day: -Im grateful for having to wait for the good stuff -The maddening experience of not being in control, especially when I long to know whether or not good things are coming, because it might … Continue reading Counter-Mundane
By Betsy Sholl Each evening I believe in the everlasting and fear by dawn blight will have crept into the garden. But each morning there you are, watery blossoms dripping from the lip of multiple green faucets, a magicians trick of scarf after soft yellow and orange scarf rippling from a sleeve. How to name … Continue reading Begonia