Matthew Ehret: 04-05-2026,
The following short article will also be found in an upcoming Rising Tide Foundation Spring Anthology ‘The Art of Liberty’ which will be released later this week. Until then I wanted to provide a teaser to everyone subscribed… enjoy.
A Universal Lesson in Navigating Troubled Waters
“There is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
-Gospel of Mark 4: 22-23
The imagery of the twelve disciples caught in a terrible storm on the Sea of Galilee with their teacher Jesus had caught the imagination of generations of Christians after the Apostle Mark recounted the story in chapter four of his Gospel some time around 71 AD amidst Nero’s persecution of the early Christians and destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
The imagery of shaken faith of Jesus’ followers, the fear of our mortality, the loss of sense of control over our fates, and the feeling of injustice that lives may be cut short before our hopes can be fulfilled are universal motifs.
With each generation, men and women are challenged to face the discrepancy between their moral ideals, their sense of values and those tumultuous waves of despair and injustice that fall upon our lives, testing our faith with each step.
Thus, it is understandable that amidst the terrible violence of the Thirty Years War that tore across Europe from 1618 to 1648,