Editor’s Note
Alexandra Gomez, Managing Editor
April 8, 2013
Genuine, beneficial advice from godly people is priceless. Those people who build you up, as opposed to letting you fly through high school to face the world unprepared. A look at this special college edition will let you explore the long-term results of a CCA education and how our generation has... Read more »
Does Doctrine Affect Salvation?
Jessica Gushue, Freelance Writer
January 15, 2013
On a Tuesday night, I biked over to my grandparents’ house. My head was spinning with questions of religion and true and false doctrine. In that moment, I felt like Christianity was so complicated. How could a Catholic or Mormon believe in the same God and yet their doctrine be so different from mine? “Her... Read more »
a note from the ed…
Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief
December 21, 2012
When Jesus gave the Great Commission, He did not consider gender or age. The Lord has chosen every believing Christian to carry out His message to our sphere of influence, using our talents, skills, and gifts, while being equipped with His power. The mission of every believer in Jesus Christ is to communicate... Read more »
note from the ed…
Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief
October 29, 2012
This month we’ve done something groundbreaking in our Journalism classroom (AKA: CCA Newsroom). Back in August, when classes started and we formed our new staff, we decided to redesign The Messenger and go from a newspaper to a magazine format. As part of our communication strategy, we also created... Read more »
So, What’s Next?
Alexandra Gomez, Managing Editor
May 29, 2012
As the school year comes to an end, it feels like the CCA body is collectively letting out a big breath. If you haven’t, go ahead. Do it now. Ah, yes, the seniors are probably thinking: Wow! we made it. The juniors are eyeing the crown—next spot in the dynamics of high school hierarchy with great... Read more »
Editor’s Note
Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief
April 2, 2012
In a crowded hallway at Calvary Christian Academy, a student chats with another, who lost her dad in a terrible motorcycle accident three years ago. It is a site worth watching, even though your heart breaks for the one who cannot face another fireman memorial. Her broken heart, now healed, came back... Read more »
Rising above it
Alexandra Gomez, Managing Editor
April 2, 2012
Foreign countries. World nations. However phrased, often times they seem unattached to our world. Watching the breaking news seems slightly unreal, even when seeing whole villages torn apart by a fluke tsunami, or lands leveled to dust by nuclear explosion. Nations are set apart by geography (obviously),... Read more »
The Holiday I’ll Never Forget
Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief
December 20, 2011
I’ll never forget the girl with the red scarf. She was eleven, as was I, but where my legs were short and skinny, hers seemed to go on forever, all the way up to her underarms—unusual for a Spanish girl from Madrid, Spain, but not as much as her pale skin and curly, red hair. We shouldn’t have... Read more »
Editor’s Note: An Epic Generation
Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief
November 2, 2011
The next generation is one we think we know. The things we know about them will be common icons twenty years later: like their smart phones with extended texting keyboards, skinny jeans, Vans and Converse brands, Facebook, YouTube videos, and plastic rubber bands shaped as animals (AKA—Silly Bands),... Read more »
Rating Riot
Heather Wroth, Staff Writer
September 8, 2011
Recently a few friends and I went to see a “PG-13” movie in theatres, but ended up walking out before the movie even hit the halfway mark. We were amazed that a movie with violence, profanity, and nudity in almost every scene didn’t get an “R” rating. I left the theatre wondering, “Can I... Read more »