Enjoy the April 2025 edition of the Come & See journal...click on the image above.

Click on the images above to review the first three issues of Come & See!

What is Come & See? Come & See was a student's idea with the ultimate goal being to create a community of creative students and provide an outlet for inspiration. As a way to achieve this goal, the Come & See Club produced a regularly-published, digital (and possibly printed) journal that will capture and celebrate the beauty of Crusader creativity that is produced outside of the classroom. What do students create when they aren't creating for a grade? When they just wish to create? Those pieces will be submitted for consideration by the Come & See Curation Committee and then published.

How will Come & See be published? Come & See will be published digitally using a digital publishing option called Issuu. It is also likely that Come & See will enjoy at least one print publication per year as well.

When will Come & See be published? We are presently working towards publication of the fifth issue of Come & See in August 2025. (Submissions are due to ComeandSee@ncsaz.org by Friday, August 22nd, 2025. If you miss that date, don't fret! We'll be working towards another issue, issue #6, shortly after that.

Who can submit? Come & See submissions are accepted from all 6th through 12th grade NCS on-the-ground, NCS Online, NCS Flex, and NCS Partner School students.

What sort of creativity can be submitted? A journal designed for the celebration of creativity probably should not limit the types of submissions! If you have something that you would like to submit that could work in a digital and/or print format, please submit! Generally, we will be looking for creative writing, painting, photography, drawings, video, memes, comics, digital art, and more.

How do I submit? All submissions should be sent via email: comeandsee@ncsaz.org. The deadlines for submission for our March 2025 issue is March 14, 2025. But, after that deadline passes, we will immediately begin working towards collecting submissions for our next issue.

What if my creativity is on the "edgy" side? In a great book titled, "A Thomas Jefferson Education", Oliver DeMille classifies artistic expression in one of four ways: whole, broken, bent, or healing. Dr. Roger Erdvig, in his book "Beyond Biblical Integration" illuminates DeMille's four domains of artistic expression this way: "Whole literature demonstrates a life lived consistent with Kingdom principles. While it may be fraught with difficulties, it is the truly good life--the life to be desired. Wise choices are prized and celebrated, and readers can get caught up in seeing life work out the way God designed. Broken stories show the tragic consequences of unwise living, casting them as clearly undesirable. They don't sanitize sin or living outside of a Biblical worldview, but they don't celebrate it either. Bent books put sin and anti-God themes on display, but they celebrate the sin, not showing its deceptive nature and ugly results. Finally, healing books are most often either whole or broken books in which the reading is 'profoundly moved, changed, or significantly improved by his reading experience' (Demille, 2000, p. 74). In most cases, we should focus on healing, whole, or broken stories and forgo spending much time with bent ones." This way of considering art can be applicable within so many forms of expression. In the case of Come & See, we would be looking for healing, whole, or broken artistic expression--we would work to avoid the bent.