For years, people have repeated the claim that caffeine dehydrates you. The reasoning seems straightforward: caffeine is a diuretic, so coffee or tea must leave you drier than before. This myth has become common knowledge, even though research tells a different story. Caffeine does have a mild diuretic effect, particularly in those unaccustomed to it.... Continue Reading →

Caravaggio. Basket of Fruit. c. 1599. Oil on canvas. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. You bear God’s image and share His Spirit. You were made alive for His work, not just working to protect an image. That is the order the Bible gives us. “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed... Continue Reading →

Blake, W. (c. 1805). The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun [Graphite and watercolor over graphite on paper]. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Rosenwald Collection. Accession no. 1943.3.8999. https://www.nga.gov/artworks/11502-great-red-dragon-and-woman-clothed-sunBlake’s Great Red Dragon captures in visual form what Lewis described in words: every soul is destined to become either radiant with glory or terrifying in... Continue Reading →

Juan de Flandes - Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene The human condition presents itself as a sojourn marked by existential questions arising from our deepest longings: "Am I seen? Am I loved?" These inquiries, inherent to the imago Dei within us, draw us toward the meta-narrative of Scripture; the redemptive story that addresses our fundamental need for... Continue Reading →

Friedrich, C. D. (1818). Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [Oil on canvas]. Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Morning light breaks over a busy street corner. A stream of humanity passes by: a nurse in scrubs, a construction worker, a mother with her toddler, a man in a threadbare coat. Different stories, different struggles. Yet each... Continue Reading →