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

Dr. Russell Moore: An Interview on Politics, Religion, and Liberty

"Given your experience both as a pastor, as a congressional aid, and now as president of an organization that straddles the two worlds, what role do you think Christians have in politics?"

Noah Black | | Fall 2018

Jennifer Frey on Virtue and the Meaning of Happiness

"To me, the interesting question about happiness is this: what might actually fulfill you? What is the highest good you can seek?"

Grace Liu | Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2019

Reading a Liturgy of Confession: Liturgy as Forma Formans

The form worship takes reveals has certain assumptions about how people learn built into it. Reading liturgy from a formalist perspective, one that pays attention to form, reveals much about what those assumptions are.

Caleb Molstad | University of Minnesota Between Cities | 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

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

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

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

More Than Money: Poverty As a Spiritual Problem

"And so poverty as a spiritual problem is what’s going on in the souls of the poor people, and the souls of the people who let poverty continue."

Olugbenga Joseph | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2016

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

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

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

In the Beginning, [Insert Here] Created the Heavens and the Earth

In fact, as an important parallel, the vast majority of Christians in fields of theology have abandoned a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation in favor of a more symbolic and poetic account.

Collin English | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

Engineering for God and Humanity

This past January, I had the opportunity to conduct field research on amputees through a partnership with two of India’s most impactful non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for people with disabilities.

Matthew Chun | 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

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

Faith and Learning

Does Christianity pose a challenge to intellectual inquiry?

Trevor Davis | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 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 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

Loving Jesus Back: Nuns Really Do Get Married

Several women in the community expressed the sentiment to me that their hearts are made to love more than just one man and the children born within one marriage.

Jane Thomas | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 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

Consistency and Subtlety

I have come to learn that the physical campus has great influence on the culture of the student body and its ideologies at the Claremont Colleges.

Amira Athanasios | The Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015

The Relevancy of Quakerism

The guidance of the Quaker Testimonies (simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, service and stewardship) could not be more relevant to today’s oppressive, materialistic, and war-torn world.

Mary Chawaga | Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015

How a Brown Student Grew in His Faith While Living Homeless

Living in the shelter for a year gave Kevin Simmons a passion for giving back and serving others.

Elizabeth Jean-Marie | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | 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

Revisiting the Puritans: Recreation, Community, and the Christian Mind

One of the most significant things that [the Puritans] have left behind, I believe, is the emphasis on a liberal arts education.

Nathaniel Schmucker | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

Invited to Care

There is a tension in the criminal justice system between punishment and rehabilitation. Is it proper justice to educate murderers?

Matthew Harrison | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Fall 2014

Reflections on the Writings of William Jewett Tucker

William Jewett Tucker holds a special place in Dartmouth College history as a graduate of the class of 1861 and as the College’s ninth president.

Sara Holston | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 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

An Interview with Professor Jeffrey Reimer

"[On science and faith:] It’s like living with your brother. You’re different but you’re close, and that’s how conflict can arise too."

Jonathan Chan & Chloe Ng | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2014

St. Olaf College: Lutheran Identity in an Age of Pluralism

According to its mission statement, St. Olaf encourages students “to be seekers of truth, leading lives of unselfish service to others; and it challenges them to be responsible and knowledgeable citizens of the world.”

Darrell Jodock | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2014

Rethinking the Harvard Game

For 6 months away from Harvard I served as a semester missionary at a home for women experiencing crisis pregnancies. Most of these young women were victims of poverty, addiction, exploitation, and sexual assault.

Julie Coates | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013

Poetry and the Redemption Story

We are not academics searching to excavate truth from a divine treatise. Instead we are beings intimately woven into a poem in which God tenderly shows us what to love, how to love, and why we love.

Siqi Cao | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2014

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 2013

The Church Fathers and the Rationality of Christianity: An Interview with Dr. Sara Parvis

Clement of Alexandria complained that his fellow Christians thought of philosophy as some kind of ogre and ran screaming when they heard it.

Dr. Sara Parvis, Chris Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2013

Feminism and Christianity

My non-Christian friends were usually on the pro-professional side, championing women’s rights and equal opportunity. And it was my Christian friends who more often than not announced that they planned to stay at home, citing family values and the calling of motherhood.

Natalie Hejduk | Princeton Revisions | Spring 2013

Created to Serve: The Telos of Work

As a senior, I get asked what one of my close friends calls the “Benjamin Braddock question” rather frequently: “What are you going to do after you graduate?”

Josh Satre | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2013

Meeting God in the Classroom

God takes delight when we take delight in His creation; if we would prefer to study philosophy instead of medicine, Caribbean wildlife instead of law, or Slavic poetry instead of business, we should ask ourselves if that desire comes from God. If it does, maybe He gave us that desire for a reason.

Calvin Jennings | UPenn Common Subjects |

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

Things Worthy to Be Loved

What motivates us anyway? Why ought we to take ownership of our education and explore these “things worthy to be loved”?

Sang Lee | Princeton Revisions |

Work and Worship

Once we realize the all-encompassing nature of God’s provision, there is no work that cannot be seen as a manifestation of God’s kindness to us, and therefore no work that should not spark our gratitude and joy.

Taylor Craig | MIT et Spiritus | Fall 2016

December 2019