November 2018
August 2018
May 2018
February 2018
January 2018

The Numinous and the Natural: Christianity and Environmentalism
The Tragedy of the Commons shows us that the destruction of the environment is an issue regarding not only how people relate to one another, but also how we relate to nature.
Jeffrey Poomkudy | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2017
War and Peace in Christian Tradition
What are some wise insights and necessary points of reflection that we, Christian or not, should take heed of when confronted with violence, war and the question of justice?
Erik Johnson | MIT et Spiritus | Fall 2016December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017

Peace in Toil
The Christian worldview presents a framework for work that resolves many of the issues which arise from Stoicism and Materialism.
Samuel Ching | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016
The Problem of Christ as a Gift
Late 20th century philosopher Jacques Derrida calls into question the very possibility of gift-giving. The aporia of the gift, its dissipation upon coming into presence, presents a problem not only for philosophy, but also for Christianity.
Dan Ju | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2017July 2017
April 2017
March 2017
November 2016
September 2016
July 2016
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
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
August 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
June 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