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

Veritas Forum: Selfish Genes, Generous Soul?

Columbia Prof. Hughes then asked UNC Chapel Hill Prof. Sethupathy how there could be no evidence of God. The universe, to Hughes, didn’t seem to require a God.

Crystal Ren | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2015 (blog)

Veritas Forum: Satisfaction and the Good Life

In this particular Veritas Forum, Dr. Tim Keller, prolific Christian author and founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, represented the Christian faith, and Professor Mark Lilla, intellectual historian at Columbia University, represented a secular worldview.

Nathan Barlow | The Columbia Crown and Cross | Fall 2016 (blog)

Quasars, Pulsars, Black Holes, and God

In addition to the idea of causality, the seemingly inexplicable order and structure of the universe puzzled me.

Isaac Bautista | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2015

Fare Forward Essay Contest 2015 Winner: Emily Lau

The winner of Fare Forward Essay Contest 2015 is Emily Lau '17 of The Columbia Crown & Cross, for The Desire for a Relational God Behind Kurt Vonnegut's "EPICAC."

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Knowing Christ through Musical Worship

I don’t know whether this connection is deep and natural for others, but for me, it has always made sense: God and song, song and God.

Lilian Chow | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2015

The Veracity of the Gospels

Questionable historicity and copying practices are listed as reasons why students should not believe that the Gospels give us a legitimate view of Christ.

Titus Willis | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2015

Education for Liberty

I believe the Core actually holds out a unique and precious kind of liberty, one far richer than the typical, tired myth about college.

Luke Foster | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2013

God’s Sovereignty in the Midst of Depression

Reconciling the Christian hope we are meant to have with the crushing experience of hopelessness, anxiety and sadness we may actually feel can seem like an irresolvable struggle.

Tatianna Kufferath | The Columbia Crown & Cross |

Christ’s Crowning Glory

Most directly, [the symbol of the Crown and Cross] refers to Columbia’s founding as an Anglican college: the fruit of a Christian Church under the British monarch.

Luke Foster | The Columbia Crown and Cross | Spring 2014

Remember November

While researching for this article, I ventured into internet forums to read what others who have considered suicide have written about their suicidal feelings, and found my sentiments echoed. Many say that if just one person cared it would make them go on living, or that they have been hurt by those whom they love.

Linda Kang | UPenn Common Subjects | Spring 2013

February 2018