In Print: Volume 2 • Issue 1 • Spring 2009

Table of Contents

• Letter from the Editors

  We invite you to ponder the Christian life as inscribed by time and physicality, both as individuals and as members of the body.

• Altar to a False Image

  A Christian public health researcher’s work reveals the impact Christianity can have on how we approach eating, dieting, and body image.

• The Dangers of Sex Talk

  After years of hearing about the repulsiveness of sexual impurity, Christians do not feel like the church is a safe place for the sexually broken.

• Backyard Abolitionism

  The movement to end slavery starts here.

• A Virgin’s Monologue

  Let’s get physical.

• Reasons for Passion

  How can we bridge the ancient divide between passion and reason?

• Olympics, the Church & Critique

  Complicit by silence about an untouchable topic.

• Do We Have Assurance?

  An exploration of faith and its relationship to soteriology in the New Testament.

• The Gravity of Sin

  One sin is one too many.

• Thought Experiments & Snipers

  How a non-Christian convinced me that evangelism should be on the forefront of my mind…

• Feeling Age

  Growing older and fully known.

• Thanks to a Parachute

  How many people in our lives have extended God’s love without us even knowing it? How many people have we walked by without understanding their importance in our lives? And how do we pass on this favor?

• Learning from the Body of Christ

  Volunteering in San Francisco changes how you understand your place in the Body of Christ.

• A psalm that I know

  A poem by Lauren Gully.

• We write like some sort of monster

  A poem by Grace Kim.

• Plane 1: Elisha

  A poem by Grace Kim.

• D-d-d-d-disability

  “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?”

• Sundering Times

  A poem by Lue-Yee Tsang.

• Pater, vide, vulnera mea tibi ostendo

  A poem by Laura Ferris.

• Jambaism #5

  A poem by Daniel Kim.

• Screwing Yourself

  Short skirts and sunny days.

• Unknown Sounds

  Our reviewer takes a look at the music of Mae, Copeland, and Cotton Jones.

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