May 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 2017March 2018
February 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
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 2017January 2018
December 2017
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 2016October 2017
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 2016September 2017
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 2016August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
April 2017
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 2016March 2017
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 2016October 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 2016September 2016
August 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 2016July 2016
June 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 2016May 2016
April 2016
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 2015March 2016
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 2015February 2016
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 2015January 2016
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 |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 2015May 2015
March 2015
Blessed Endurance
The Book of Job was one that I found initially too intimidating to read and I misconstrued it as merely a story about suffering.
Stephanie Yom | UC Berkeley TAUG | Fall 2014
Strangers in a Strange Land
What exactly does it mean to “seek the welfare of the city”?
Lisa Ann Yu | UC Berkeley TAUG | Fall 2014February 2015
September 2014
July 2014
Following Christ Home
I tearfully explained my dilemma to my youth pastor over the phone. He listened, then said, “I think you should go home.”
Kathryn Wu | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014
When Shiny Plastic Jesus Ain’t Enough
This Jesus—the one I met in South Los Angeles—saw those on the streets whom I had overlooked because they made me uncomfortable.
Caitlin Hynes | Claremont Ekklesia | Winter 2013