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Augustine Collective Journals in the New York Times
Several member journals of the Augustine Collective were mentioned in a January 16, 2016 New York Times op-ed on evangelical students on secular campuses.
Augustine Collective | Augustine Collective |
The Problem of Evil: An Ichthus Roundtable
In addition to our own thoughts, we provide links to a wide variety of pieces on the problem of evil by professional philosophers.
The Harvard Ichthus Staff | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015December 2015
Loving Jesus Back: Nuns Really Do Get Married
Several women in the community expressed the sentiment to me that their hearts are made to love more than just one man and the children born within one marriage.
Jane Thomas | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015
How to Agape Love
The primary vocation of every person is to love, to strive for an agape love that extends beyond a philia love.
Marina Spinelli | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015November 2015
September 2015
Stop Freaking Out About Your Job
But your specific variety of work does not define you. And the more you think that it does or should, the more you dig yourself into a pit of anxiety and self-pity.
Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015
How Christians Navigate College and Career
I talked with six Christian seniors at Harvard, each with varying concentrations and potential career paths, to understand how Christians at Harvard think about their faith, academics, and future careers.
Brooke Dickens | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015
On “Love III” by George Herbert
Love is gentle and kind, quietly observant of the persona’s hesitancy, and his questioning is not interrogative but “sweet."
Judith Huang | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2015
The Abortion Doula Paradox
I would not for a minute occlude the compassion and self-sacrifice that abortion doulas freely display, nor can I deem their actions good in light of how their work undercuts specific potential for human life.
Veronica Wickline | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2015August 2015
July 2015
This Fine-Tuned Universe
The fact that our universe is life-permitting doesn’t give us evidence for the Many Universe Hypothesis. It does, however, give us evidence for a fine-tuning God.
Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2015 blog
Review of The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
Science and religion may never ever get back together in the same way, but Dolnick reminds us that in the not-so-distant past, they were once brothers.
Jordan Monge | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2015 blogJune 2015
Kyrios Christos: The Lordship of Jesus Christ Today
Profession of a “lord” is not merely religious language for adoration on some spiritual plane; it is also a matter of social and political protest.
Michael F. Bird | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
The Trial of God
[In The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky,] the Grand Inquisitor points his finger at Christ and sentences him to death: “To-morrow I shall burn Thee. Dixi.”
Daniel Kang | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2015May 2015
Confession as Freedom
I would suggest that, logically, those who are the most enslaved are those who don’t even know that they’re slaves.
Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
Harvard Ichthus Answers 200 Questions About God At Texts-4-Toasties
"Forty students volunteered to deliver toasties, answer questions [about Christianity], cook, and man the computers in our three stations in Thayer Basement, a Pfoho kitchen, and the Leverett Rabbit Hole."
Augustine Collective | The Harvard Ichthus |
Squirming in the Pew: A Confession
The issue is that we, as post-Emergent Church Worshipers, seem to view corporate worship as dependent upon our emotional response to it.
Brynn Elliot | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014April 2015
A Catholic Confesses
Confession works even when I don’t expect or believe it will.
Jane Thompson | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
Where is God in History?
There remains one point about the narrative of history that is worth rejoicing over, and that is the power of larger, contextual narratives.
Henry Li | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014March 2015
February 2015
December 2014
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September 2014
The Alternative Lens of Revelation
As responsible thinkers in this society, then, it is important to endeavor to read [the book of Revelation] responsibly, keeping to the message as truly as we can.
Shaun Lim | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2013
The Rebellion of Faith
Christians do not know concretely how God will produce a favorable outcome from difficult situations, but they trust in Him because of evidence supporting His promise to do so and His overall track record throughout the Bible.
Brionna Atkins | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2013August 2014
The Westboro Baptist Church: Rebellion Gone Wrong
Simply put, the WBC expresses hate towards groups that do not adhere to their teachings and stances.
Daniel Abarca | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2013
Screwtape on Prefrosh
Unseat the desire for truth in your patient and replace it with a desire for academic respect, and your job is half done.
Judith Huang | The Harvard Ichthus | Summer 2011 - Special issue for the incoming class of 2015
Radical Generosity: How Christians Fail
According to one set of statistics, Christians give at 2.5% of income per capita, less than the 3.3% of income per capita given during the Great Depression.
Peter Hickman | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013July 2014
The Great Commission
I will argue that throughout history the church has consistently been successful in making disciples of all nations, but the behavior of self-identified Christians in modern America are not radically different than the population at large.
Aaron Gyde | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013
Jesus and Women: Rebelling against Misogyny
The gospels tell of Jesus' extraordinary conduct towards women, which takes on a radical nature when considered in the context of the oppressive environment for women in the Ancient Middle East.
CJ Curtis | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013June 2014
Intelligence and Dogma: A Letter from a Sheep
One study found that, even when controlling for sex, race, education, earnings, and religion, more intelligent children are significantly more likely to grow up to be atheist seven years later.
Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013
Rethinking the Harvard Game
For 6 months away from Harvard I served as a semester missionary at a home for women experiencing crisis pregnancies. Most of these young women were victims of poverty, addiction, exploitation, and sexual assault.
Julie Coates | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013May 2014
April 2014
A Nasty, Dreadful Thing
I realized far too late that I should have not only given him, my brother, the eighty dollars, but twenty dollars more than he asked for.
Henry Li | The Harvard Ichthus |
The Blood of the Martyrs
Perpetua’s account [of martyrdom] is especially remarkable, because it is one of the few authentic voices of women from the Roman Empire.
Margaret Eichner | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013March 2014
Constantinople Captured! Ambition, Violence, and the Disunity of Christianity
How did Christians – who believe in peace – succumb to violence in this episode, and how do human failings affect the unity of Christians? Let us first consider the historical event.
Margaret Eichner | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013
String Theory, the Multiverse, and God
It might seem that God and string theory, like Harry and Voldemort, cannot live while the other survives.
Tom Rudelius | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013
The Indispensable Image: Is the Church Really Necessary?
The question that haunts these chapters is: how will the nations come to know the one true God? Will it be through the futility of idols, or through the faithfulness of Israel?
Nick Nowalk | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013February 2014
January 2014
Love Your Enemies: A Radical Call to Christian Pacifism
“But!” you cry – I can almost hear it now – what about saving society from criminals, and children from murderers, and Europe from Hitler, and America from the Terrorists? In sum, what about all the innocent people whom we have a duty to protect from the evildoers?
Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2013
On The Book of Mormon: Christianity without Scripture
The Book of Mormon provides a caricature of what religion might look like if it rested only upon its practices and not on the truth of the underlying story.
Shaun Lim | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013December 2013
A Religious Animal?
How to understand the story of the Fall while accepting that death, too, was there from the beginning of life on earth?
Stephen Mackereth | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013
Keep Asking
In the absence of a story that connects us to what is going on around us, we find that any sort of yearning for purpose is quickly replaced by a frenzied and arbitrary pursuit of desires. The Christian faith leads us elsewhere.
Roshni Patel | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012
