Vocation and the Student

One of the clearest and most incisive indictments of careerism (though he never uses that specific term), was made by W.H. Auden in a speech, “Vocation and Society” to undergraduates at Swarthmore.

James Sutton | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2018-Spring 2019

Everything Else Thrown In: C.S. Lewis on Identity

Given Lewis’s conversion experience, then, what distinguished his curiosity from cynicism? How did he draw a conclusion into which he could invest his identity?

Kara Anderson | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2019

The Soul’s Hunger: Our Physical Appetites as More than Physical

Yet pursuing “food, cheer, and song” means something different. Valuing these means cherishing vulnerability, family, and community.

Zachary Lee | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2019

The Place of Belief in a Pluralistic World

A speaker was coming to UNC who had been an anti-protester at Charlottesville’s Unite The Right rally in August of last year, and my friend and I began a conversation about what ideologies should not be tolerated in society.

Brodie Heginbotham | UNC To the Well | Fall 2018

Towards a Stained-Glass Home: Diaspora and the Goodness of WashU

I long for a true home where I can rest and belong in a deep, abiding way that enfolds and transcends all my identities, experiences, values, and relationships. I haven’t found that yet, but I long for it with all my heart.

Miles Woodhull | The WashU Kairos | Fall 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

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

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

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 2018

Augustine Collective Leaders Retreat 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

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 2017

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

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

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

Redeeming Rest

With a more robust view of time, we can rest as well as work because both add qualitative value to our lives.

Elizabeth Schmucker | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2016

The Strongest Argument Against Christianity

I think that the strongest argument against Christianity can be made by comparing modern Christians with the Bible.

James Frederick | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016

What Killed Robert Peace?

Robert Peace’s short and tragic life comes as a shock because many of us assume that poverty can be eradicated with more money, more intellect, more opportunities, and so on

Esther Jiang | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2016

An Interview with Professor John Inazu

"Well, I think of pluralism in two ways: one is a descriptive fact about the world: we have deep and irresolvable differences between us, and so the question is, what do we do with them?"

Washington University in St. Louis Kairos Staff | Washington University in St. Louis Kairos | Fall 2017

Spanish Mass at Harvard

I imagine there are other bilingual students at Harvard who experience these same discouragements at worship services for other faiths. However, this investigation will focus particularly on the experience of Spanish-speaking Catholics.

Marina Spinelli | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2016

Boundaries

We invite you to look for the beauty that boundaries can create and to heal the wounds cut by divisive boundaries.

Laura Clark | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016

Porn is Not Private: Why Viewing Pornography Perpetuates Injustice

If we have the social conscience to denounce the lies of sexual objectification or normalizing violence, we cannot let pornography get away with the same ideas.

Brandon Wright | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2016

The Weariness and Work of Sloth

Sloth is farther reaching, more insidious, and better at hiding than laziness, arising from a deep emptiness or lack, and can exhibit itself as laziness, but also, counter-intuitively, as excessive busyness.

John Nystrom | The Cornell Claritas | Spring 2017

Insights from Professor Chuck Huff

"Do you have any particular examples from your classes where people have really thought through or wrestled with the issues of religion and science?"

Avodah Editorial Staff | St Olaf Avodah | Spring 2015

Do Ethnic Communities Have a Place in Christianity?

When I was exposed to different faith traditions and practices in college, I found myself doubting aspects of my home church that I had previously been so fond of.

Amos Jeng | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2017

The Integration of Modern Psychology and the Philosophical Virtues in the Christian Worldview

A psychological professional who is truly concerned for an individual’s well-being ought to awaken them to a sense of their human dignity, to help them recognize disorders in their lives, and to accompany them along the path of healing and self-discovery.

Blake Tamez | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2016

Postmodernism and the Paradox of Tolerance

Postmodernism conflates truth and personhood, and in doing so confines the person to a state of perpetual insecurity and vulnerability. It is this fear of violence that prevents modern persons from recognizing the inherent dignity of their peers.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2017

Reconciling Faith and Reason

Biblically, faith is defined as “confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” It is noteworthy that in both definitions of faith mentioned, there involves a certain element that extends beyond human perception.

Sarah Liu | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

The New Dartmouth: From Sacred to Secular

Regardless of the worldview one ascribes to, consideration of the full range of motivations for, and the ensuing effects of, the secularization of Dartmouth is required to fully understand its significance in Dartmouth’s history.

Sara Holston | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

On the Dignity of Sex

I myself have felt resentment and bitterness towards notions of “purity” and “chastity,” and rejected them as highly antiquated concepts that only objectified people.

A. S. Bethel | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2017

An Interview with Prof. Anand Gnanadesikan

"Dealing with uncertain environmental problems, where we only see part of the system, has helped me appreciate what we do in a faith sense."

Gabrielle Moss | The Johns Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

Highlights from the West Coast Retreat 2017

The 2nd Augustine Collective West Coast Retreat was held in Cambria, CA from March 3rd-4th, 2017.

Augustine Collective | Augustine Collective |

Revisiting the Concept of Scientism: An Interview with MIT Professor Dr. Ian Hutchinson

"Historically, Christianity was in many respects a fertile philosophical and theological environment in which science, as we know it, got going."

Anelise Powers | CalPoly Aletheia | Fall 2016

Rediscovering Aristotle, Aquinas, and Classical Theism: an interview with Edward Feser

A former atheist, Dr. Feser converted back to the Catholicism of his youth after an extensive study of St. Thomas Aquinas’ thought and philosophy.

The Dartmouth Apologia | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

Review: Can We See Through Others’ Eyes?

I have noticed how little current scholarship in religious studies takes the perspective of religious practitioners into account.

Jeff Cross | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016

Revisiting the Life of Martin Luther King Jr.: Perspectives for Today’s Challenges

Dr. King recognized that the question of racism and civil rights was tearing America apart, and he knew that only love as illustrated by the gospel could provide a viable solution.

Andrew Shuffer | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

The Trinity of Physics, Christianity, and Life

I have come to think that science and religion are complementary pictures of truth, answering the questions of ‘how?’ and ‘why?’

Vitaly Andreev | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016

Why Truth Matters: A Christian’s Role in the Pursuit of Knowledge

With these (mostly) postmodern developments, one would think that discerning the truth is a uniquely postmodern conundrum.

Jennifer Schmitt | UMinnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016

The Christian Faith

One way God manifests His nature in us is through our rationality.

Irving Nestor | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016

Who Tells Your Story?

Last month, Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the Broadway hit musical Hamilton, sent off Penn’s class of 2016 by sharing two stories from his own life.

Connie Miller | UPenn Locust Walk | Spring 2016

A Compass, A Bridge, and a Covenant

The Penn Christian journal is re-launching under the name Locust Walk, falling into step with the brick-paved path that takes students through three communal points – a compass, a bridge, and a covenant.

Esther Jou | UPenn Locust Walk | Spring 2016

Redeeming the Economy

Our economy is fallen, but so beautiful was God’s original plan that the clear fingerprint of His design is visible even today.

Ryan Mather | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016

Three Reasons Why Love is Active

God's love is not always comfortable, but it is perfect. It is corrective, disciplinary, challenging - it is reactionary.

Dedzidi Ladzepo | The Cornell Claritas | Fall 2015

The Suspense of Faith

But the doubt expressed by Arnold and Russell is not limited to those who decide finally to reject god.

Karl Johnson | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016

What God Expects: The Paradox of the Standards of the Christian Community

Therefore, the standard to be Christian and to become part of the Christian community is to understand this paradox: we cannot achieve God’s standards.

Cindy Wu | The Cornell Claritas | Fall 2015

Faith and Learning

Does Christianity pose a challenge to intellectual inquiry?

Trevor Davis | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015

The Implications of Naturalism and the Problem of Divine Hiddenness

An interview with Dr. Michael Rea, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, who specializes in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.

The Dartmouth Apologia Staff | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015

Wet Feet: Navigating the Intellectual and Practical

Long run solutions without short run help do nothing for the people who are actually suffering from systemic problems right now.

Nathan Scalise | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2015

From Gut Feelings to Natural Law

While most people believe in some sense of right and wrong, they may not understand why these values are constructed this way.

Christopher Kymn | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015

Interview with Andy Crouch: Culture Making

Every human culture is distorted— it makes possible the things that should be impossible, and it makes impossible the things that should be possible, such as knowing your neighbor.

Esther Jiang | The Cornell Claritas | Fall 2015

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 |

December 2019