Highlights from the Annual Retreat 2018

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

4 Take-Aways from the Veritas Forum: Does Science Point to Atheism?

Both panelists agreed on the constant thirst for truth present in both science and religion, and the “obvious tension” in their differences.

Monica Perez | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015

Committing Amidst Shopping

Let us not be too hasty to accept society’s definition of love as being uninhibiting.

Nicholas Chuan | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Fall 2015

An Interview With Professor Susan Ashbrook Harvey

"Simply out of interest, I took Ancient Greek my freshman year. It transformed my life!"

Justin Sohn | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Fall 2015

How a Brown Student Grew in His Faith While Living Homeless

Living in the shelter for a year gave Kevin Simmons a passion for giving back and serving others.

Elizabeth Jean-Marie | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015

And He Began to Teach Them Many Things

An interview with Professor Matthew Harrison, who previously wrote an article called "Invited to Care" about his calling to teach mathematics to those in prison.

Elizabeth Jean-Marie | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015

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 |

On God and Suffering

Things become distorted when we are suffering, and it takes an understanding of something bigger than ourselves to realign life’s dimensions again.

Monica Perez and Michael Robinson | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2014

Re-meeting God

According to the Gospel, God doesn’t want to be on stage all the time. He wants to come down and be with the audience.

Mitch Akutsu | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2014

Eggshells

What is home? My parents immigrated to the States from South Korea, I was born and raised in California, I go to university in Rhode Island, and I am now studying abroad in Dublin, Ireland.

Clare Kim | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2014

Reflections of a Brown Derby

There are nights when I try to sleep but can’t because I am preoccupied with Derby-related things – our adventures and gigs, the group dynamic, our relationships. These people have managed to occupy a nook in my heart that I never really thought I was willing to share.

Russyan Mark Mabeza | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Fall 2013

The Didion Conundrum

It’s clawing and creeping and unavoidable, and you become so exhausted and feel so generic in your depression that no one speaks of it. No one speaks of the [sophomore] slump.

Margaret Nickens | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2013

On Mystical Obedience

You’re telling me that God’s commands are not burdensome while I’m struggling to go even half of a day without breaking one? How can you say that his commands are not burdensome when our desires and our wills conflict with his commands?

Andrew Kim | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2013 Volume II Issue II

AC Featured in the Ivy League Christian Observer

Harvard Ichthus '14 staff Jihye Choi covers the 2013 Augustine Collective retreat, and discusses how the journals are fostering a national movement across colleges.

Jihye Choi | The Ivy League Christian Observer | Spring 2013

Highlights from the Annual Retreat 2013

This year's retreat was held in Boston, MA from February 1st-2nd. Over 120 students from more than 15 colleges attended to learn more about running Christian journals on their campus, and to hear speakers John Lennox and Michael Lindsay discuss faith, vocation, and the academy. Student feedback and photos now up!

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Does It Matter That They’re Christian?

Summary: Mumford & Sons, like many Christian bands on mainstream charts, don’t want their album to be taken as religious or as a “Christian statement.” This begs the question, does it even matter that they’re Christian?

Elizabeth Jean-Marie | The Brown Cornerstone | Vol II Issue I, Fall 2012

An Interview with Professor Glenn Loury

Brown University economist Dr. Glenn Loury’s conversion opened his eyes to the reality and necessity of spiritual transformation and to the inadequacy of any purely secular attempt to model human moral behavior.

Philip Trammell | The Brown Cornerstone | Vol. II Issue I, Fall 2012

The Unshakable Beautiful

I suppose a great deal of my notions, such as the conviction that humans have souls, come down to the way that I experience art, the way that it elicits such singular feelings, feelings deep enough to be ancient, craggy, earthen.

Austin Lillywhite | The Brown Cornerstone | Volume I, Issue I, Spring 2012

The Marriage of Justice and Mercy

Christianity has seeming contradictions like a dog has fleas. This one consistently arises: how can a God of justice be, at the same time, a God of mercy? George MacDonald brings this contradiction to a point: “Those who say justice means the punishing of sin, and mercy the not punishing of sin, and attribute both to God, would make a schism in the very idea of God.”

Andrew Kim | Brown Cornerstone | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2012

February 2018