When the young J.W. Bresee left his comfortable Pennsylvania farmhouse in 1897, he did not expect to be embarking on a decade long odyssey. J.W. went to the heart of the Amazon on what he thought would be a mission trip with the Methodists; instead he ended up getting lost, becoming a part of an indigenous tribe for several years, and participating in their rite of passage which involved learning the ways of the jaguar. After his rescue and return to the coast with his friend Pedro, they both signed up for an expedition whose goal was to navigate the Andes mountains and continue the...

An Interwined Reality: Short Stories for the Already but Not Yet "Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." - Matthew 6:10 We live in the intersection of two worlds. This intersection is an age where death and its consequences run rampant, yet it is also an age where the reality of God's life-giving and eternal kingdom is breaking into our present era. At the center of this intersection is Christ's life, death, and resurrection. It is the 'Already' - the work of God's redeeming love in this fallen age, molding and shaping it into the 'Not Yet' - a new creation,...