I wish I had a quick, easy way to deal with fear. I wish that whenever I felt that inability to take a deep breath, that murky roiling of the stomach, that tightening of the shoulders I could do something—snap my fingers, maybe—to make everything better again. But life doesn’t work like that.
11.4.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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Yesterday was supposed to be a good day. I spent the morning and early afternoon getting everything prepared for the distribution of our newest issue (read it!), and I planned to spend the rest of the day being productive with my thesis, studying for the GRE, and maybe putting together my Halloween
10.29.2010| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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If you’ve read my blog more than two or three times, you already know how delighted I am by religious literature, especially religious literature that I haven’t come across before. Nothing reminds me that Christianity isn’t just a twenty-first-century American phenomenon like discovering a pie
10.28.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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This is my third reflection on my debates with my atheist uncle over Christianity. One of this favorite things to say was something like "Wouldn't a just/loving/powerful God do x differently?" Wouldn't a loving God make the world without suffering? Wouldn't a powerful God make people so that they
08.3.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
1 CommentYesterday, some good friends of mine lost their grandfather. Although we often fear death as mighty and dreadful, it cannot truly kill us. As John Donne reminds us in Holy Sonnet X: “One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt die.” We pass throug
06.18.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
No CommentsAt first Harold Kushner could not find a publisher. Initially, the publishing establishment in New York did not think there would be a market for When Bad Things Happen to Good People. They were wrong. Since its first printing, Kushner’s book has sold over four million copies worldwide. It
06.13.2010| Opinions, Volume 6, Issue 1 | Rev. Jonathan Page
1 Comment“[God] destroys both the blameless and the wicked. When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges — if it is not he, who then is it?” Job 9: 22-24 (English Standard Version) Our
06.13.2010| Editor's Note, Volume 6, Issue 1 | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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