Purity
Jessica Matthews
February 25, 2009
Somewhere along the line of trying to understand purity, I think we have missed the point. Well educated by purity conferences and lectures on abstinence, still some Christian students may have begun to view purity as an endless list of guidelines, or barriers regarding relations with the opposite sex—a... Read more »
Praying for the Holy Land
Jessica Matthews
February 19, 2009
The Land Flowing with Milk and Honey has recently been raining with missiles and gunfire. Having had withstood attacks from the terrorist organization Hamas for years, Israel began to retaliate in December of 2008, and initiated a ground invasion in the Gaza Strip on January 3, 2009. While the world... Read more »
Prophets to the President
Jessica Matthews
February 12, 2009
You do not have to work in the Oval Office or answer a senate roll call to have your own ideas about running the government. We live in a nation where the government, as Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, is “by the people”—the government is you and I. And yet, I think we forget... Read more »
Beyond All That We Ask or Think
Jessica Matthews, Managing Editor
February 3, 2009
Every mountain climb begins with an initial step, and though we seldom comprehend the significance of such a seemingly small step right from the start, retrospect gradually clarifies our understanding. As we glimpse toward the base of the mountain and realize how far we have climbed, we begin to comprehend... Read more »