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Letter from the Editor

Issue No. 4: Advent

Kelsey Hency

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Issue 4

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Best Books of 2016

The editors pick their favorite books from 2016.

Staff

4 min read time

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Conduits of Conversation

Conversation pieces for the Advent season

Staff

6 min read time

Article

Poetry Competition

The First Poetry Competition of Fathom Magazine

Staff

1 min read time

Article

Christmas Is Laced with Longing

How Christmas teaches us to expect.

Alicia Conrad

4 min read time

Article

Teach Me Your Language

The beauty of Christ’s coming

Sophie DeMuth

4 min read time

Article

Life Is Fragile

A Review of Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Jonathan Minnema

4 min read time

Article

God Is Sovereign

How a seven-year-old stumbled upon theology

Sarah Scott Pape

3 min read time

Article

God Told Me . . .

The Christianese Podcast with Drew Fitzgerald

Drew Fitzgerald

0 min read time

Article

Silent Activism

To Who It May Concern: Is silence a language in itself?

Brandon Giella

14 min read time

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People Are Good

What I learned and unlearned from Henry David Thoreau

Jonathan Minnema

4 min read time

Short Story

The Seas of Cynicism

Studying theology is dangerous. Studying theology while being a cynic is even worse.

Brandon Giella

6 min read time

Article

Unfathomable Silence

A review of Silence by Shusaku Endo

Jonathan Minnema

8 min read time

Article

The Story of the Old Testament

Podcast

Drew Fitzgerald

1 min read time

Article

President Trump and the Voiceless of America

What do we do now?

Collin Huber

4 min read time

Article

The Songs of the Exiles

We await the return of the king

Jed Ostoich

4 min read time

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The Feminine Love of God

Seeing the feminine pictures of God in the Bible

Abbie Reed

4 min read time

Article

This Sick Life

Learning to live with chronic illness

Ashley Tieperman

5 min read time

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The Best Laid Plans

The path you think is right may not be

Sawyer Nyquist

5 min read time

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Survival Is Insufficient

A review of Emily St. John Mandel’s latest novel, Station Eleven

Collin Huber

4 min read time

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Where was Jesus before Advent?

A Study in Christophanies

Drew Fitzgerald

6 min read time

The Drift

The Drift

What’s up this week?

Staff

1 min read time