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Are Christians merely ignoring the horrible things that the Boston bomber has done in praying for him? Is Rabbi Boteach right to claim that “[T]o show kindness to the murderer,” as the Christians are doing, “is to violate the victim yet again”? Continue reading »
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If we wouldn’t tell our neighbors to constantly compare their lives to everyone else’s and feel inadequate by doing so, why do we ourselves do that? Continue reading »
Founding members discuss Peripateo, a new journal of Christian discourse and artwork at Swarthmore College. Hanna Lehmann '13, Editor-in-Chief, adds, "Through the publication, we aspire to think critically and struggle with ideas of faith, reason, and truth.” Continue reading »
Harvard Ichthus '14 staff Jihye Choi covers the 2013 Augustine Collective retreat, and discusses how the journals are fostering a national movement across colleges. Continue reading »
The Religious Right is made up of people who come at politics from a religious and conservative perspective, and it has proven to be a powerful political movement. In this article, however, I turn to the puzzling question of why religious and political liberals do not have a similarly influential movement. Continue reading »
A large majority of my time this semester has been dedicated to studying constitutional interpretation for my freshman seminar. This has prompted me to think a lot about biblical interpretation, too, and how theories on constitutional interpretation might be applied to the Bible. Continue reading »
Why is there winter? And second, what needs to happen for the life-giving thaw of spring to return? In other words, what is the origin of what is wrong with the world, and what is the solution to it? Continue reading »
Christians are called to be good stewards rather than owners of their material blessings, multiplying them in accordance to their ability. A lively faith requires the investment of both material goods and ability for the benefit of God. Continue reading »
As inherently relational creatures, a state of absolute aloneness frightens most people. Why? Solitude, like nothing else, forces you to confront yourself. Continue reading »
In the three years of reverberations from “The Waste Land,” Eliot still struggled with the same problem, as well as the same solution. He was dissatisfied with despair but simply could not find a better response. Continue reading »
