Every few months here at CONSP!RE, we enact a strange form of community. Across the wire. Through the air. Connecting organic chemicals in our bodies via blips of zeroes and ones. To be sure, living on opposite coasts presents a challenge. But still we connect. We submit and surrender, discuss and arrange, ponder and rearrange to compose an artifact. Thoughts. Content. Image. Art.
You hold in your hands the end product. Stories sifted through, images to stir the soul.
This magazine is an exercise in community on several levels. First, there is the grand community of creation that we are all a part of. We try to draw in experiences and reflections from across the world. Second, there is a more self-selective community at play. We circle around a common faith tradition, sometimes dancing closer, sometimes spinning away, trying to make sense of it all. Doubting, hoping, praying, believing, and doubting again. We write in hope that someone out there will be moved, encouraged, helped along.
