Illustrations from Colossians

Perpetua's Journal from the Arena Floor

In the year 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son and writing in her journal....

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The Mural on Division Street

In a midwestern city split by decades of racial and economic segregation, a church decided to commission a mural on the concrete wall that literally...

Colossians 3:13Dispensationalforgiveness

The Glue That Holds Everything Together

In 2012, physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson — the subatomic particle that had eluded...

Perpetua's Diary of Heaven

In March of 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Perpetua sat in a sweltering Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son through the iron bars. She...

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A Surgeon's Humble Revolution

In 2008, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande faced a uncomfortable truth: operating rooms filled with the most educated professionals on earth were making preventable mistakes. Not...

Lens Perspective

The Table Gets Longer

In a small church in Portland, the congregation had split over whether to welcome a nearby recovery community to their weekly potluck. The arguments grew...

Colossians 3:13Dispensationalforgiveness

The Surgeon in the Laundry Room

Maria Vargas works the overnight shift in the laundry facility at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She folds fitted sheets with mechanical precision, sorts surgical...

The Moment Before the Downbeat

On a Thursday evening in 1951, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra sat tuning in Orchestra Hall. Oboes bleated against cellos. Timpani rumbled beneath shrieking violins. A...

Michael Faraday and the Invisible Force That Holds Everything Together

In 1845, Michael Faraday stood in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London, passing a beam of light through a block of heavy...

Colossians 1:1-14Universal

The Fruit That Grew While She Wasn't Looking

In 2019, Maria Gonzalez planted a small community garden behind her church in Tucson, Arizona. She had no budget, just a patch of sun-scorched dirt...

Colossians 1:15-28Universal

The Architect Who Holds It All Together

In 2015, structural engineers discovered that the Millennium Tower in San Francisco was sinking — tilting inches per year into the soft soil beneath it....

Colossians 3:1-11Universal

The Wardrobe Cleanout on Maple Street

Last spring, Maria Gutierrez finally tackled the hall closet in her Chicago bungalow. For years she had shoved old coats, stained shirts, and shoes that...

Michael Faraday and the Invisible Force That Binds All Things

In 1845, Michael Faraday stood in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London, demonstrating something no one had ever seen. By rotating a...

The Name No One Knows Yet

Every year, the U.S. Marshals Service relocates hundreds of people through witness protection. Their old identities are erased — bank accounts closed, records sealed, obituaries...

The Star You Never See at Night

On a clear night in the high desert of New Mexico, you can see roughly five thousand stars. But there is one star you never...

The Secret Gallery Beneath Rome

Beneath the streets of Rome, early Christians carved miles of tunnels — the catacombs — where they buried their dead and gathered in secret during...

The Force That Holds Everything Together

In 1932, physicist James Chadwick discovered the neutron, and with it came a baffling question that kept nuclear scientists awake at night. Protons packed tightly...

The Architect Who Walked His Own Blueprint

In 1882, Antoni Gaudí took over construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. What makes the basilica astonishing is not just its beauty but its...

The Man Who Found the Invisible Force

In 1845, Michael Faraday stood before the Royal Institution in London and demonstrated something no one had ever seen — because it could not be...

The Force at the Heart of Every Atom

In 1935, Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa proposed something astonishing: buried inside the nucleus of every atom is a force so powerful it defies everything we...

The Stone That Holds Everything

Stand in Rome and look up at the Colosseum's ancient arches — still standing after two thousand years of earthquakes, invasions, and relentless tourism. Engineers...

The Hidden Center of Every Snowflake

On any winter morning in Vermont's Green Mountains, billions of snowflakes drift silently to earth, each one an intricate crystal of breathtaking symmetry. But here...

What Holds the Universe Together

In the 1970s, astronomer Vera Rubin pointed her telescope at the Andromeda galaxy and discovered something that should have been impossible. The stars at the...