Table of Contents Letter from the Editor | Currents Spring 2021 Visualizer: Where do you Draw Your Strength From? Clinging to Hope: How Students Overcome Disappointment More Than a Wish Your Heart Makes: Dreams & Their Significance Chalk by D’Artagnon Fulton Only in a Memory by Sam Nolan Defining the Undefinable Callie Mechelke Uses Music to Convey … [Read more...] about Currents Magazine Spring 2021: Beauty From Ashes
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Letter from the Editor | Currents Spring 2021
Beauty from ashes, mourning turned to joy, the burden of heaviness transformed into a garment of praise. These are the promises God makes to His people in Isaiah 61, and they are woven throughout Scripture. While Isaiah speaks these words prophetically in the Old Testament, Jesus fulfills them many centuries later when he quotes the prophet in a Jewish synagogue, saying … [Read more...] about Letter from the Editor | Currents Spring 2021
Healing Comes in Waves: The Grieving Process and Honoring the Lives of Loved Ones
Pictured: Sammie Wuensche. Photo illustration by Anastasia Condolon When one first learns a loved one has died, it can feel overwhelming, perhaps unforeseen — like getting lost in a tidal wave. One might be out in the ocean for a while feeling disoriented and confused. Over time, memories of the loved one come back, sometimes unexpectedly — even when the water appears to … [Read more...] about Healing Comes in Waves: The Grieving Process and Honoring the Lives of Loved Ones
Finding Spiritual Rest in an Anxious World
Pictured: Cecily Breeding. Photo illustration by Anastasia Condolon Ancient civilizations possessed something modern cultures appear to be missing — a steady awareness of the divine. The world is not only becoming increasingly secularized, but people are growing more anxious, isolated and depressed than ever previously reported. One third of Americans regularly experience … [Read more...] about Finding Spiritual Rest in an Anxious World
Avenue of Acceptance: How Mental Health and Faith Intertwine
Pictured: Miranda Hall. Photo by Anastasia Condolon Mental illness is never a path someone would choose. But for five Pepperdine students, it's an avenue that has led them on a winding journey as they wrestle with their diagnoses, healing and faith. These three may never fully converge, but all five students have come to terms with their diagnosis and found meaning and … [Read more...] about Avenue of Acceptance: How Mental Health and Faith Intertwine