What do you do about a lie? What do you do when a lie has taken hold of you, when it has wormed into your heart and mind and sunk in its claws, when it colors all your thoughts down to your basic view of the world? How do you get rid of the lie? How do you see the world as it really is? Because,
01.6.2011| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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It's been nine years since September 11th, 2001. I have never seen the World Trade Center. By the time I got to America, they were gone. I'm leaving New York today, and I don't know when's the next time I'll be back. But I wrote this piece last summer about Ground Zero, and thought it would be appro
09.13.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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My dear Wigglesworm, It's been sweltering down here in the Lower Regions - you would think you were in the high summer of Boston, but no, it's just hell. Anyhow, outbreaks of gonorrhea and florescent mosquitoes aside, things plod along as usual. But enough about the weather. I note with some c
06.1.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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"Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43:18-19 "Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one t
05.2.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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Recently, a friend emailed me asking for help because his girlfriend has been having trouble accepting God's grace. Over my short time as a Christian, I have met many guilty souls who struggle with grace. I spent the greater portion of the last year trying to figure out grace. Most of the time, I fa
03.30.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
No CommentsAfter an aimless time searching for an ambiguous truth, I behold the idea incarnate. It takes the shape my mind always dreamed-- a fantasy realized and released-- one pale lily among rough reeds. Without reaching out to its beauty, I fall back into tangibility, leave all untouched in silence
03.27.2010| Fiction and Poetry, Volume 5, Issue 2 | Maria Xia
No CommentsLet me preface these thoughts by saying that I came back to Christian faith in a college Christian community and have been shown intense love over the past few years. And so it is with an equal love that I hope to think about some problems in how campus Christian fellowships relate to other Christia
01.4.2010| The Fish Tank | Samir Paul
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