November 2018
Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home by Pope Francis
The wide scope of topics that this document covers conveys the fact that we do not live in isolation; all of our actions subsequently influence others; environmentalism relates to the economy as much as it does to planting trees.
Anne Marie Crinnion | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017
Aching Desires
The more compelling idea is how closely together Augustine links a horrible act with good desires – desires for love, comfort, security, and justice.
David Bussell | UNC To the Well | Fall 2018
White as Snow: A Comparison of Two Prayers of Repentance
By examining two famous prayers of repentance, that of the fictional King Claudius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and that of the historical King David in Psalm 51, I hope to shed light on what repentance is and what it is not.
Paul Jeon | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2018October 2018
Let us Love and Sing and Wonder
How did hymns come about and how have they changed through history? Why were they significant and how are they relevant today?
Richard Ibekwe | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2018
Faith and the Invisible: Taking the Leap
Reason allows us to consider the visible world around us, and to decide what to believe about reality. Faith enables us to take the leap into believing it.
Hailey Scherer | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2018
Strength in Weakness: A Call to Authentic Vulnerability
We learn early on that we should always appear as if everything is fine all the time. The demand to be effortlessly perfect leaves no room for openness about our struggles or imperfections.
Sarah Proctor | Duke Crux | Fall 2018
The Strange Persistence of Guilt: A Q&A with Wilfred McClay
"Guilt is a key aspect of what might be called our moral nervous system. It alerts us to our failures, and pushes us to make them right in some way."
Lynette Long | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2017September 2018
A Clash in the Cosmos: Reflections on Madeleine L’Engle’s Classic Novel
A Wrinkle in Time might open with an ominous dark and stormy night, but the novel goes on to triumphantly remind us that love and light will ultimately prevail.
Naomi Kim | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2018
The Myth of Pure Objectivity: A Retrospective from 2011
If my asserted values permit more harm to the environment than yours allow, what are we to do? Why should I listen to you?
Lee Farnsworth | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2018
Justice in Pain, Suffering, and Silence
Throughout Martin Scorsese's Silence, we begin to question why God allows pain for even those seeking to work for God or in the very least let us hear His voice instead of just silence.
Bryan Lee | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2018
The Picture of Gray Pleasure
Solomon, son of Israel’s King David, lived hundreds of years before the fictional Dorian Gray, yet his life looked very similar.
Abi Bernard | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2018
Who is God?
The Old Testament is a combination of books that predict, point to, and await the arrival of God in the flesh, and the New Testament is the documentation of God’s appearance and life on earth.
Armen Festekjian | | Fall 2017August 2018
Against (Our Own) Heresies
[Heresy] starts with a narrow selective reading of scripture that is then over-emphasized and serves as a tangential point for one’s own desires.
Erik Johnson | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2018
An Interview with Jonathan Moo
"I think the reason Christians care for creation can be summarized by loving God and loving our neighbor, and in the process discovering who we were created to be."
Siobhan McDonough | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017
Give Just A Thought
But truthfully, one cannot be wholeheartedly empathetic without spending quality time with a person currently or formerly having experienced homelessness.
Jade Thompson | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2018
An Interview with Illustrator, Author, and Professor, John Hendrix
"Looking at a lot of your art and illustration, sometimes your palette and creative choices can be a bit gruesome. What role does this play in your art, and do you think it comes from your faith or somewhere else?"
WashU Kairos Editorial Team | The WashU Kairos | Spring 2018
What Did Jesus Say About Ethnocentrism?
For brevity, I’ll also focus on only one component of racism, called ethnocentrism: the belief that one’s own ethnic culture is superior and/or favored by God.
Sam Elder | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2018
Discovering God: Plantinga and the Sensus Divinitatis
Reid argues that there are certain ideas, namely those which our nature leads us to believe, that we must accept as true. Those beliefs can be considered to be basic, the foundations of our further knowledge.
Jeffrey Poomkudy | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2018
The Lovely Embrace of Pain
Another principle characteristic of Lucretius’ view is that it ultimately seeks painlessness. For this purpose, Lucretius urges isolation. However, there are two critical issues with this goal-orientation.
Jamie Har | Cornell Claritas | Fall 2017
Scientias Religionis
In this article I hope to shed some light on those areas in which behavioral biology actually has a lot to say about the religious experience.
Hailey Reneau | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017
Is Tolerance Enough?
As we look closer at the definition of “tolerance,” we begin to understand why it may be a rather imperfect word, inadequate to face the current climate.
Grace Liu | Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2018July 2018
DAMN: Kendrick Lamar’s Radical Lament
Kendrick Lamar is currently one of the world’s most talented lyricists, a generational storyteller, and a Christian grappling with eternal condemnation.
Kion You | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2018
Are We Ready for a Renewed Sexual Ethic?
According to the mores of contemporary sexual ethics, both Grace and Ansari were playing by the rules.
Sean Kim | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2018
God’s Heart Towards Individuals With Disabilities
Most of us believe that inclusion of individuals with disabilities matters. However, Christianity takes this belief a step further and in a different direction.
Mimi Cole | Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2018
Friend of Sinners
Jesus was known to be a friend of sinners, and his life has encouraged me to do the same in my work within the criminal justice system–to befriend them, encourage them, and find them worthy of healing, rehabilitation, and forgiveness.
Brittany Krippner | CalPoly Aletheia | Spring 2018
A Tale of Two Evangelicalisms: A Q&A with Randall Balmer
"Some have disavowed the label [evangelicalism], arguing that it is now “a tribal rather than a credal description.” When did this shift in how the term is understood take place?
Luke Dickens | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2018
Faith in a Crowded Space
Yet most important to Dante, beyond the universe’s organization and population, is the fact that he was connected to it, and that the whole thing was powered by love.
Tess Fitzsimmons | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017
The Great Unseen
Both L’Engle’s work and the Bible are based in stories, but using the term 'stories' doesn’t imply falsehood.
Abigail Bezrutczyk | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2018
Why Politics?
Have we limited the church’s full support of Christians in “secular” fields, diminishing their calling as ambassadors in “secular” spheres of society?
Isabella Chow | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2018June 2018
May 2018
The Ones Who Walk Away: Social Justice, Shame, and the Church
Le Guin’s story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," won the 1974 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, with many readers interpreting it as an allegory about societal injustices that are seen but remain unaddressed.
Miles Woodhull | | Spring 2018
Highlights from the Leaders Retreat, April 13-15, 2018
Twenty-eight students representing the core leadership from 15 journals convened in the greater Boston area to share ideas, grow intellectually, and build community together.
Augustine Collective | Augustine Collective | April 13-15, 2018
Kenosis: A Response to a Stratified, Self-Centered Society
We are finite beings, and the magnitude of human suffering at the hands of systemic oppression is enormous. Trying to change the world can be like trying to put out a forest fire with a squirt gun.
Lydia Anderson | CalPoly Aletheia | Spring 2018
Chaos
With mathematics properly contextualized, I want to enliven a small section of the discipline that is relatively young called chaos theory. Specifically, I want to examine the theory with a focus on the metaphysical problem of determinism.
Taylor Parra | Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2017
War of the Words
Which areas on campus are to operate as safe havens for students who want to be surrounded by people who share their views, and which spaces are where respectable discourse and argument is permissible?
Zachary Lee | Cornell Claritas | Fall 2017April 2018
All Good Work
Is there any overarching truth about what makes work meaningful that always holds, regardless of where we are or what our jobs are?
Tammy Chang | Stanford Vox Clara | Winter 2018
Revisiting Biblical Claims on Generational Punishment
When humans sin, they affect other people to whom they are connected. Thus, must Christians sit down and repent for their ancestors’ sins?
Joshua Lee | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2016March 2018
Who Do You Say That I Am? – Pseudo-Dionysius on the Divine Names
In brief, the problem of understanding the divine names is the problem of discovering how a superhuman significance could possibly dwell within a language that has developed squarely within the boundary lines of human realities and human concerns.
Nicholas Zahorodny | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2015
On Faith and Docility
The docile spirit is embodied in St. Anselm’s motto, fides quaerens intellectum—faith seeking understanding.
Greg Brown | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2015
Consider Creation
As both a Christian and a long-time lover of nature, this article will seek to present why Christians should promote environmental stewardship.
Marta Galambos | Cal Poly Aletheia | Spring 2018
Leavening and Life after Swarthmore
It turns out that rootedness isn’t actually a function of how long you stay in one place. It has to do with how you live when you’re there.
Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2015
A Call to Work
Through examining the biblical notions of calling and vocation, we will see how these seemingly opposites – a longing for something grand and the reality of the mundane – actually complement each other.
Elizabeth Schmucker | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2017
Conversations that Change Minds
How can we facilitate meaningful dialogue between people with differing ideological beliefs?
Ronald Davis | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2018February 2018
Searching for the Ear of God
I myself reckoned with the reality I faced: I also thought prayer was sort of stupid. It certainly felt stupid, primarily for two reasons.
Jesse Rines | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2017
Review: C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce
C. S. Lewis’ work builds on the tradition of previous works to insert his perspective into the existing debate about the nature of the afterlife.
Sara Holston | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2016
History’s Jesus: An Exploration of Historical Analysis
Scholars have developed a number of criteria to inform an accurate reconstruction of the historical Jesus. Among Ehrman’s preferred methods are independent attestation and the principle of dissimilarity.
India Perdue | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2017
The Greater Miracle
Hume says that because experience is infallibly linked to natural reality, testimony cannot cast even a shadow of doubt on sensory information, and the two cannot epistemically oppose each other.
Hope Chang | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2016
Highlights from the Annual Retreat 2018
With over 220 students and alumni from more than 20 colleges in attendance, this year's retreat was by far our largest yet!
Augustine Collective | Augustine Collective News | January 19-20, 2018
Standing United: A Rhetoric Major’s Reflection
Although nothing is necessarily wrong with standing against something that is wrong, the implications of the word “against” reiterates the divided and polarizing environment we are looking to transcend.
Victoria Lai | UC Berkeley TAUG | Fall 2017
Order, Disorder, Reorder
Why does work feel like work? Here is the end at the beginning: work is frustrating. It can be extremely satisfying to produce something, but it can be simultaneously excruciating – but what excellence and beauty can come from deep suffering. Early on in the semester, a man named Jeremy Begby spoke at Cornell.[1] He […]
Emani Pollard | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2017