January 2016
May 2014
St. Olaf Launches “Avodah”
“Avodah” is a Hebrew word that means both work and worship, and it represents the desire of the journal’s staff to integrate their work as students — learning to be critical thinkers — with honoring God.
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UC Berkeley’s TAUG Hosts Cafe Night
"Each Cafe Night is based on the theme of the journal. This semester's Cafe Night was called "To Know in Part" because the theme of our Spring 2014 issue is Science and Faith."
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January 2013
September 2012
August 2012
Is Anything Worth Believing In? A Review of a Conversation with John Lennox
God could have easily made a universe in which bad things didn’t happen. However, Lennox argues that “the one thing you will not get in an automated, robotic, computerized universe is love, relationship, and so on... In order to have the possibility of love or relationship, you must create the possibility of choice.”
Sarah Banks | The UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 01, Spring 2012
A Review of The Meaning of Life: A Short Introduction
Perhaps we are making the false assumption that the question, “what is the meaning of life?” can have an answer like “what is the meaning of the word ‘apple’?” does. What do we really mean when we ask, “what is the meaning of life?”
Kelly Maeshiro | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 2011
God, Unifier of Mathematical Truths
It is peculiar enough that Christianity was once considered the more elegant worldview, and from this worldview came the rise of modern mathematics.
Willis Zhang | UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 1, Spring 2012
Sacramental Complications: Sufjan Stevens’ “Casimir Pulaski Day”
Sufjan Stevens is adored by the indie music movement, which is often antiestablishment and anti-religious, yet his music honestly handles the grittiness of lived faith. “Casimir Pulaski Day” is the firsthand narration of the death of a loved one within a Christian community.
Tristan Macdonald | 5 College Slant | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 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 2012February 2012
January 2012
Faith and Fiction
The relationship between fiction and faith has had its difficult moments. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was abolished by the Catholic Church only fifty years ago, and there were even recent stories of pastors burning Harry Potter books when the series started skyrocketing in popularity. Clearly the people instituting banned books lists and instigating book burnings believe in the capacity for fiction to corrupt. Curiously, in denouncing fiction’s potentially degrading influence, they are also acknowledging its power.
Stephen Kim | The Yale Logos | Winter 2011
The Four Walls of Our Freedom: Organized Religion and the Happy Life
Why accept an organized religion: don’t you want to think for yourself and come to your own conclusions?
Eduardo Andino | Yale Logos |