Editor’s Note: All the Answers

Sarah Eshleman
Editor in Chief

I grinned, pleased that he had worked out this little puzzle without his big sister’s answers.

Answers magazine is nearing its twentieth anniversary issue. While digging around in our past, I learned that the magazine almost received the title Creation Answers. One way or another, Answers has always been the title and purpose of our magazine.

But our intention has never been to spoon out facile, self-contained answers. A good magazine provides an intellectual companion, inviting you to bring your own curiosity and musings to a discussion.

As editor in chief, I want Answers magazine to be not an end to questions but a starting point. I hope that Answers points to the answer: God’s Word. But I also hope the articles stir up questions, haunt your thoughts in the stillness, and send you spelunking in Scripture for the godly way to think.

This issue of Answers asks you to consider an array of topics from a different perspective. In “A Biblical View of Juneteenth,” author Rachel Citak helps us see beyond the contention of this American holiday (page 27). She draws our attention to God’s care for his image bearers through history, not just physically through the Israelites’ Year of Jubilee, but spiritually through his redemptive work on the cross.

In “A Heart Toward Heaven,” Laura Allnutt recounts her recent loss of loved ones, exploring how grief can help us properly long for heaven (page 36).

“Another Walk Through the Garden” inspires us to reimagine what the perfect world might have looked like—and how we might cultivate a little Eden in our backyard this spring (page 12).

In “Jesus Never Visited Brazil,” I challenge you to turn travel into a journey closer to the heart of the Creator, allowing the future heavens and earth to inform your present perspective of this earthly home (page 44).

Even Kids Answers asks young readers to rethink some common animal myths in “Truth or Tales?” (Don’t miss the adorable artwork on page 22 of Kids Answers.)

As this issue keenly displays, Answers magazine doesn’t have all the answers. But we want to help you search for them in the heart of the only One who does.

I’m glad Uriah thought up his question and a potential answer without my input. But I did send him a link or two to Answers articles. I hope he had even more questions by the end.