Blue Bridge
byGrand Rapids, Michigan (December 2015) One of the most recognizable bridges near my home is the Blue Bridge, a historic truss bridge in downtown…
Self-deception
by the daily asteriskWhat if you have no idea what the truth is? What if you’re convinced that your lies are what really happened? … I’m a…
Reconciling the nations
by Sam GeschEditor’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…
Trampling on an enemy
by the daily asteriskPower is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of…
Saturday morning
by Lee Hull MosesOn Saturday morning, when I slip out of the house and head for the farmer’s market, the rest of the family is still asleep…
Shake us out
by the daily asteriskImagination, 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…
Building
by Marjorie Maddox“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….
Prejudices lead the way
by the daily asteriskMy friends, the loss is huge when we let our prejudices lead the way. We are all made in the image of God, and…
Bridges and intersections
by Geneva LangelandA version of this piece was previously published on the Post Calvin in 2013. Barbara Kingsolver’s lovely 2012 novel, Flight Behavior, spins the story…
Compassion
by the daily asteriskThis insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus’ teaching…. What makes…