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November 2016
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June 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
Approaching a Christocentric View of Wealth
To the casual onlooker skeptical of the Catholic Church’s wealth, the concern is not how beautiful their churches are, but the cost at which they were built.
Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
February 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
Wealth in the Church
Does a capitalist society create paradigms that are contrary to Christ’s message? Interview with Yale history and religion professor Carlos Eire.
The Yale Logos | The Yale Logos | Fall 2015September 2015
August 2015
Social Justice and the Eucharistic Life
Although the Church was not the source of the injustices in their community, they believed those who were wasteful or did not give freely exacerbated the suffering of others.
Monica Mikhail | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2015
Scriptural Interpretation: A Second Look at the Blanchard v. Rice Debate
The years leading up to the Civil War saw abolitionists and supporters of the antislavery movement clashing with proslavery Americans over specific scriptural passages related to slavery.
Sara Holston | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015July 2015
June 2015
April 2015
January 2015
Finding Freedom in Constraint
Some non-Christians are often shocked at how incredibly limiting these principles seem, yet they fail to recognize how much we agree with them on this point.
Marcos Martinez | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2014
Confessions of an Economics Concentrator
I confess that I study economics, and that I sometimes think about becoming a Wall Street financier. I also confess that I am a Christian, and that I often think about becoming a pastor.
Peter Hickman | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014August 2014
Screwtape on Prefrosh
Unseat the desire for truth in your patient and replace it with a desire for academic respect, and your job is half done.
Judith Huang | The Harvard Ichthus | Summer 2011 - Special issue for the incoming class of 2015
Radical Generosity: How Christians Fail
According to one set of statistics, Christians give at 2.5% of income per capita, less than the 3.3% of income per capita given during the Great Depression.
Peter Hickman | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013July 2014
Responding to a Mother’s Schizophrenia
My mother is schizophrenic. During her moments of irrationality, I am tempted to curse God for inflicting her with such an illness.
Anonymous | Princeton Revisions | Spring 2009
Jesus and Women: Rebelling against Misogyny
The gospels tell of Jesus' extraordinary conduct towards women, which takes on a radical nature when considered in the context of the oppressive environment for women in the Ancient Middle East.
CJ Curtis | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013June 2014
Subsidiarity, Solidarity, and Social Teaching: A Catholic Perspective on Political Economy
In a statement echoed by President Obama, Francis laments the condition of a socioeconomic order in which “it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points.”
Nicholas Zahorodny | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014
Intelligence and Dogma: A Letter from a Sheep
One study found that, even when controlling for sex, race, education, earnings, and religion, more intelligent children are significantly more likely to grow up to be atheist seven years later.
Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013April 2014
A Nasty, Dreadful Thing
I realized far too late that I should have not only given him, my brother, the eighty dollars, but twenty dollars more than he asked for.
Henry Li | The Harvard Ichthus |
The Pain of Privilege
Because of this privilege, there are generally two ways Christians at Berkeley come to grips with this reality: the path characterized by guilt and the path characterized by obligation.
David Park | UC Berkeley TAUG | Fall 2013February 2014
October 2013
August 2013
The Messy Theology of Justice
Love is not about the show and discipline of religious habits, but about the raw, arduous, and messy everyday work of justice.
Hana Lehmann | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2013
Christianity and the Gaze
The problem for Christians is thus the problem of invisibility, which empire exacerbates, for in empire, that which is unsightly is exported from the collective imagination.
Kelly Maeshiro | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012June 2013
March 2013
January 2013
Whom Are We Friends with and Why?
As the ancient philosophers recognized the ease with which we can settle for less from our relationships, the current cultural context challenges us, diverts us from what it means to have a true friend and be one.
Hannah Jung | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012, Volume 7, Issue 1
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