Blue Bridge
Grand Rapids, Michigan (December 2015) One of the most recognizable bridges near my home is the Blue Bridge, a historic truss bridge in downtown…
Read MoreGrand Rapids, Michigan (December 2015) One of the most recognizable bridges near my home is the Blue Bridge, a historic truss bridge in downtown…
Read MoreWhat if you have no idea what the truth is? What if you’re convinced that your lies are what really happened? … I’m a…
Read MoreEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2004, Sam Gesch shares how the…
Read MorePower is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of…
Read MoreOn Saturday morning, when I slip out of the house and head for the farmer’s market, the rest of the family is still asleep…
Read MoreImagination, working at full strength, can shake us out of our fatal, adoring self-absorption and make us look up and see—with terror or with…
Read More“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon….the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.” – H….
Read MoreMy friends, the loss is huge when we let our prejudices lead the way. We are all made in the image of God, and…
Read MoreA version of this piece was previously published on the Post Calvin in 2013. Barbara Kingsolver’s lovely 2012 novel, Flight Behavior, spins the story…
Read MoreThis insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus’ teaching…. What makes…
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