In our 13th issue, you will encounter an eclectic mix of poetry, stories, and art that all intertwine with the reality of the life-giving God. You’ll find moments of humor, longing, shame, and the mundane mixed with the divine. Many of our contributors believe, and they will take you on a journey of spiritual connection. Many will demonstrate the tension between God’s will and their own will. Others will be in awe of His character, His revelations, and His tendency to pull us out of the sin that grips us like a vice in order to mold us like clay. Some of our writers will relay troubling doubt and fear, while death lingers in the background like an unbeaten adversary, a lion ready to pounce. Others still are searching … following the breadcrumbs of belief, stumbling along the way, hoping to find God in the end.

I hope you find God in the end. My prayer is that this issue sparks an insatiable desire to know the God who created your soul. I hope that, if nothing else, the crucial question burns inside of you like a hot coal: Do you believe this?