This mini-issue comes at a time of a global pandemic. But we're not focusing on that. Rather, we’re thinking about hope - the hope that we all seek to tide us through this season. We’ve teamed up with Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union to bring this collection of art and short writings. You will find that our contributors are so certain that we can have hope even in this current emergency. Why is this so? Our hope is from a body that was beaten, hung up, and pierced; a body that was given for us, through an emergency. It is a body that was raised, that ascended, and that provides the basis for a living, breathing hope.
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In this inaugural issue, we’re thinking about excess. Abundance is often perceived as good, but our unlimited wants seem to always bleed into wasteful excess—think about the environmental impacts of consumerism, or the inequality resulting from accumulation of wealth. But there are also more intangible types of excess—excessive investments in relationships, excessive insistence on ideologies, and even the excessive desires that drive many of these other excesses.
The essays, poetry, and art in this issue seek to look at these challenging questions from various angles, ranging from ecology to economics and Ecclesiastes. We’ve learnt much from assembling these different viewpoints, and perhaps you will too. Read it here. |