Openings

Openings is a visual and literary arts magazine containing a selection of work exclusively from Trinity Christian College's students and faculty.

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Openings, 2025

Trinity Christian College

Literary Arts: Where I'm From by Kaylee Santiago - 2 / Desk by Luke Rotman - 3 / A Final Word by Njoki Mukuria - 8 / there's no going back by Sam Nonhof - 9 / Oranges by ren amador - 11 / DESTINY vs. AGENCY by Chase Hadley - 13 / Freely Give, Freely Receive by Mia Musick - 17 / Like a Child by Kaylee M. Santiago - 20 / The Poetry of the Body by John Terpstra - 21 / Carl's Secret by Kaylee M. Santiago - 23 / My Father's Hair by John Terpstra - 27 / Love, which cannot ever fully comprehend by Bill Baerman-Cornell - 31 / Emergency Contact by Mary Honey - 34 / What's the difference between rest and sleep by Ally Tillema - 35 / I woke up already free by Karlyn Boens - 37 / Masterpiece by Chase Hadley - 39 Visual Arts: Photo Collage: Green by ren amador - 1 / Eye by Jaelyn Fleener - 7 / The Tree by Nyla Bellamy - 10 / Sick and Tired by Ally Tillema - 12 / Skull Fishtank by Jaelyn Fleener - 15 / in the grass by ren amador - 18 / Hope you like chocolate Camila Macias - 19 / Photo Collage: Blue by ren amador - 24 / i've never quite known peace by Ally Tillema - 26 / Carissimi Frater by Gabriella Soerens - 29 / Converse by Jaelyn Fleener - 33 / Yawn by Camila Macias - 36 / Hand in Water by Jaelyn Fleener - 38
Openings, vol. 1 (2023)

Bill Boerman-Cornell

Literary Arts: 6 - Shuddering by the Fire - Bill Boerman-Cornell / 10 - Shimmer in the Glade - Elizabeth Peterson / 18 - Unknown Answers - Lauren Cox / 32 - The Power of a Hymn - Sarah Kroese / 34 - That Rat - Jonah Mudlaff / 38 - Taking Life, One Stride at a Time - Erica Nurczyk / 43 - The Monsters - Sarah Kroese / 44 - Untitled - Alyssa Kuehl

Visual Arts: 9 - Great Smoky Mountains - Deividas Taras / 17 - Strawberry Girl - Mia Diaz
Openings, vol. 2 (2023)

Bill Boerman-Cornell

Literary Arts: 6 - Dead as the Desert - Elizabeth Peterson / 18 - A DQ Love - Emilie Lindgren / 26 - Poem - Jayley Fairgreives / 28 - Sleeper - Jonah Mudlaff / 40 - When We See Ourselves Bleed - Njoki Mukuria / 42 - All the things you can do when you cut class - Dr. Sierra’s ENGL 356 Class / 44 - Ars Poetica - Trinity Curley / 45 - Control - Alyssa Kuehl

Visual Arts: Cover - Jonah Mudlaff - “Hopeful Future 2” / 17 - Viva La Vida - Karla Rosales / 27 - Glacier Bay - Deividas Taras / 43 - Indy - Mia Diaz
Openings, vol. 3 (2023)

Bill Boerman-Cornell

Literary Arts: 6 - Snuffed Out - Elizabeth Peterson / 20 - Fourth Reich - Nick Morrison / 30 - Found - Njoki Mukuria / 32 - Awake - Samantha Hoffman / 34 - Don’t Be Fooled - Njoki Mukuria / 42 - Ars Poetica - Abby Tillema / 44 - The Heart’s Lament - Alyssa Kuehl /

Visual Arts: 33 - Hopeful Future 2 - Jonah Mudlaff / 43 - Hopeful Future 1 - Jonah Mudlaff / Cover - Jonah Mudlaff - FLORA
Openings, vol. 4 (2023)

Bill Boerman-Cornell

Literary Arts: 6 - Into the Fog - Ava Kelly / 13 - Paloma - Abby Tillema / 24 - Ars Poetica - Trinity Curley / 25 - Control - Alyssa Kuehl / 26 - The Wind - Morgan Meinders / 28 - The Forest - Isabelle Neibert / 34 - Prose Poem - Trinity Curley / 35 - Icarus - Samantha Hoffman / 36 - Powerlines - Ren Amador / 37 - Phoebe and Natasha - Anonymous

Visual Arts: 12 - Obuelo’s Puerto Rico - Mia Diaz / 23 - Lalis y Ojitos - Mia Diaz / 33 - FLORA - Jonah Mudlaff / 36 - Powerlines - Ren Amador
Openings, 2018

Trinity Christian College

LITERATURE CONTENT: 1 - Running Away in Time for Dinner by Leah Taylor / 4 - Polar Opposites by Sarah Kliora / 12 - Waiting by Latifah Williams / 13 - For Good This Time by Kezia TenHaken 17 - Rude Recollections by Kailah Price / 28 - redemption by Bethany Dadisma 29 - Girl by Jessica Slinkman / 34 - In the Dusk of Addison and Leavitt Streets (one September night in traffic) by Curtis Taylor, In Memoriam

VISUAL CONTENT: Cover Photo by Pierce Cruz / 9 - Jade by Clarine Sukamto / 16 - Sweeties Don't do Sweets by Yeonji Choi / 23 - by Palette Maggie Talsma / 26 - Photograph by Andrea Taylor / 32 - taking out the trash by Abigail Smith / 36 - Still Life Alex Lauriano
Openings, 2017

Trinity Christian College

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 - Children's Hour by Mark Jones / 2 - Home by Jessica Slinkman / 4 - The Holy Sacrament of Campfires by Bill Boerman-Cornell / 9 - Catechism Class by John Terpstra / 12 - Dysphoria by Nina Hamilton / 15 - Brian by Alexander Kohrs / 40 - Better to be a Bird than a Fish by Matthew Koerner / 50 - Dawn: A Play in One Act by Esther Sullivan
Openings, 2015

Trinity Christian College

Literary Arts: 5 - Windowsill by Adam Krestan / 6 - In Silence I Sit by Jaclyn Feddes / 8 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Breaking Up by Anna Phillips / 11 - Night Bus by John Terpstra / 16 - Maybe Then (Explicit Catharsis) by B. S. Wegner / 18 - The Sacrament of Building Tree Forts by Bill Boerman-Cornell / 20 - Hearts In His Hands by Faith Lorenz / 26 - Chrysalis by Esther Sullivan / 27 - Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis) by Jeff Tigchelaar / 29 - Zombie by Kylla Pate / 30 - Don't Let Your Kids Play on Train Tracks by Zachery Jones / 36 - Valediction for the Dungeon Master by Mark Jones

Visual Arts: 7 - Paper Sculpture #3 by Andrew Holmes / 13 - Self Portrait by Emily Dykstra / 17 - bad sig11als by James De Vries / 19 - Shostakovich by Hannah Dykstra / 28 - I brackets I by Megan Vandermeer / 35 - Giving Tree by Mackenzie Cleary
Openings, 2014

Trinity Christian College

Literary Arts: 4 - Untitled by Prof. Aron Reppmann / 5 - Silence by Esther Sullivan / 6 - Grandpa Harry (1893-1982) by Bill Boerman-Cornell / 9 - Pull, Push by Samuel Fradette / 11 - You and Me by Ethan Holmes / 12 - A Report on Love and Wrestling by Jeff Tigchelaar / 14 - Interview with an English Professor by Anna Phillips / 17 - Wearing Pencils by John Terpstra / 20 - The Artist by Jaclyn Feddes / 23 - Wildfire by B. S. Wegner / 24 - Limbo by Mikhail Ferreria / 27 - North and South by Andrew Blok / 28 - Clerihew by Trinity Faculty

Visual Arts: 10 - Untitled by Mackenzie Cleary / 13 - Untitled by Chris Colvin / 18 - Misadventures of an Absentminded Artist by Hannah Dykstra / 22 - Untitled by Andrew Holmes / 25 - The Letter by Kayleigh Rodewald / 26 - The True Oxford by Brittany Miedema
Openings, Spring 2013

Trinity Christian College

Visual Arts: Infinitesimal by Sarah Jasperse - 3 / Greek Layouts by Melissa Conrad - 9 / Fruit Bowl by Jessica Timmermans - 12 / Vans Billboard by Danielle Truckenmiller - 16 / Spear Bearer and Aphrodite by Jonathan Engbers - 21

Literary Arts: Conversations #1 (or planetary parallels) by Ethan Oliver Holmes - 1-2 / Luke by on composing a gospel by Bill Baerman-Cornell - 4-6 / Tiramisu by Vanessa Noonan - 6-8 / thoughts on a winter night by Sara Henreckson - 10 / Journey to Heaven by Chad Westenbroek - 11 / A Picture is Worth a T housand Words by Holli Moote - 13-15 / New Year by Good Work by John Terpstra - 16-17 / I Write to You by Brandin Wegner - 18 / Wicked Psalms (excerpt) by Tara Requa - 18-20 / A Physical Book by Andrew Blok - 22
Openings, 2012

Trinity Christian College

Visual Arts: Drawing - Reflecting by Kaitlyn VanDellen - 3 / Graphic Design - Ubuntu by Karlie Monsma - 7 Manifest Destiny by Melissa Peterson - 15 / Painting - Sunset by Alissa VanderWilt - 6 / Photography - Clementine Blues by Anna Flier - Cover / Fotosharp by Melissa Conrad - 6 / Backflip by Brittany Rucin - 1O / Color Blind by Katherine Stachula - 11 / Foggy by Sarah Jasperse - 12-13 / Sleeping Roommate by Steve Martinez - 19 / If You Build It by They Will Come by Brady Davidson - 20-21 / Tattoo by Michael Hume - 25

Literary Arts: Creative Non-fiction - Grandma's Last Christmas: A True Story by Nick Fiala - 8 / The Master Craftsman by Zak Hood - 26 / Fiction - Permanence of the Supernova by Hartrick Vander Ploeg - 4 / Excerpts from "Now by Then by and Forever," Kathy Nimmer - 22 / Flash Fiction - Disillusioned by JezLayman - 3 / Poetry - The Plagiarist: An Original Poem by Jennie Hill - 2 / Alex by Anna Gesch - 2 / Sweyn Forkbeard by Manny Vega - 14 / The Realization by Summerlyn Blake - 14 / One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds by Jeff Tigchelaar - 15 / Bless the Lord: A Communally Refracted Reading by Dr. Bill Van Gronigen, Dr. Craig Mattson, Dr. Mary Lynn Colosimo, Cini Bretzlaff-Holstein, and Dr. Aron Reppmann - 16-18 / going home/coming back by Marissa Carpenter -27
Openings, 2011

Trinity Christian College

Poetry: 2 - Easter Pantoum by John Terpstra / 2 - My Mother's Garden by Camille Villegas / 2 - Slipping by Monica Brands / 3 - Gift from a Guide Dog by Kathy Nimmer / 5 - Something by Something Else by Marissa Carpenter / 11 - Punctuating your life's sentence at retirement (for Nelvia Brady). Dr.Aron Reppmann / 12 - Untitled by Vanessa Noonan / 13 - Nerve by Teryn Leaper / 14 - Fran by Natalia Wegrzyniak / 15 -Anorexia by Libby Dykstra / 16 - Bacon Raised by Jeff Tigchelaar / 17 - Gino by Erika Huizenga / 23 - I Pray This to You by Kenyatta Bivens / 24 - Disconnected by Ashley Veurink / 25 -Three Months (and Four Days) by Bethany Eizenga

Fiction: 18 -The Damsel by Jez Layman

Visual Arts: Cover - Untitled by Melissa Conrad / 5 - Untitled by K. C. Roller / 9 - Reflections by Kristen Tamminga / 10 - Book Object Series by Abby Christensen / 10 -An Incredibly Sweet Deal by Emily VanHoff / 10 - I have fear by Melissa Peterson / 13 - Untitled by Chelsea Konyndyk / Back Cover - Untitled. Karlie Monsma

Creative Non-Fiction: 4 - Singing for my Grandfather and the Monks by Andrew Blok / 6 - Between Here and the Sun by Kailyn Baum / 8 - What Kills by Jason Gerringer / 22 - I have seen always, at least, two things by Carrie Timmermans
Openings, Spring 2010

Trinity Christian College

Non-Fiction: 2 - Nicole Hill, Once More to the Cabin / B - Carrie Timmermans, Worn Hope / 12 - Galina Ivanova, Stories / 16 - Sarah Hoeksema, January

Poetry: 3 - Maribel Melendez, La Verdad Es Simple (The Truth Is Simple) / 4 - Bill Boerman-Cornell Grandpa Reading / 5 - Rebecca Kischkel, Power of Cymbals / 7 - Krista Mancini, Aristocracy in Denial / 10 - Kevin Kenealy, The Little Boy and His Chinese Dragon / 11 - Brittani Moore, Mother's Song / 11 - Deb Swets, Trapped in the Wrong Meter

Fiction: 6 - Russ Vitrano, Second Wind / 14 - Marissa De Haan, Silver Strand

Visual Arts: Cover - Jesse Van Maanen, The Way Down / 2 - Kailyn Baum, 48th and Sheldon / 5 - Sophia Briseno, It's A Beautiful Day / 9- Kailyn Baum, Untitled Coffee Progression / 10 -Abby Christensen & Emily Van Hoff, Untitled / 11 - Emily Van Hoff, Untitled / 13 -Alex Ver Straate, Untitled / 15 - Jillian Sheehan, Commute / 17 - Kristen Tamminga, I'm Free / Back Cover - Melinda Hegeman, Alphabet
Openings, Autumn 2008

Trinity Christian College

Piano by Danielle Barnes - Cover / Ginko by Ellen Gabrielse - 1 / Book of Leaves by Karl Gunst - 1 / Cottonball Clouds by Kara Eisenga - 1 / Layers by Kathy Nimmers - 2 / Withstanding in Grace by Sammi Weisfuss - 3 / Thy Word, Not Mine by Amanda J. Haan - 4 / Genesis by John Terpstra - 5 / Servant by Rebecca Vander Wilt - 5 / Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself by Allison Backous - 6 / Referee in Psychology by Pete Post - 7 / Phantom by Katelyn Conerty - 8 / Snapshot by Bonnie Boer - 8 / Amnesiac by Kailyn Baum - 9 / Remembering Grandpa: Memoirs of a Time #1 and #2 by Danielle Barnes - 9 / Thoughtful Respite by James Kauzlaric - 10 / Night by Debbie Fisher - 10 / When Ted Was Young by Sid Bakker - 11 / Classified Information by Natalia Wegrzyniak - 11 / Social Dexterity and a Practiced Smile by Bethany Lotterman - 12 / Winter Tree by Kara Eisenga - Back Cover