From Daniel Silliman: My whole journalism career, people have asked me if I get depressed covering the news. When I started, I was a crime reporter outside of Atlanta, reporting on drugs, prostitution, robbery, and murders. I covered 100 murders in two and a half years. Which is way too many funerals to go to in your 20s. Way too many phone calls to make to mothers just gutted by grief. 

Now, as CT’s news editor, I’m sometimes tasked with reporting on Christians roiled by division or, too often, embroiled in scandal. A friend asked me the other day, “How can you believe that good wins?”

I do believe that. But as a Christian, I think I have a peculiar idea of how good wins. I think the good news happens on the other side of bad news. There’s death, and then there’s resurrection. People are lost, but then they are found. The world is like it is, but a light has come into the darkness.

My job as a journalist is just to say what happened. I want to describe what is going on as accurately as I can. But my faith shows me this isn’t the end of the story. It’s just the setup. Jesus is coming. May he come quickly.