October 2019
September 2019
July 2019
The Life of Faith in Reason: A Hegelian Perspective
Faith is a calculated step in reasoning when gaps in our understanding are present.
Philipp Hauser | Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2019
Social Science and Other Miraculous Signs
Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now doesn’t cite selfish genes to prove God’s irrationality. It cites social-scientific data to prove God’s irrelevance.
Lauren Spohn | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2019February 2019
January 2019
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
Faith in a Crowded Space
Yet most important to Dante, beyond the universe’s organization and population, is the fact that he was connected to it, and that the whole thing was powered by love.
Tess Fitzsimmons | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017
The Great Unseen
Both L’Engle’s work and the Bible are based in stories, but using the term 'stories' doesn’t imply falsehood.
Abigail Bezrutczyk | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2018May 2018
March 2018
On Faith and Docility
The docile spirit is embodied in St. Anselm’s motto, fides quaerens intellectum—faith seeking understanding.
Greg Brown | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2015
Conversations that Change Minds
How can we facilitate meaningful dialogue between people with differing ideological beliefs?
Ronald Davis | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2018February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
Proving the Existence of God: Defending Descartes’ Causal Argument
Descartes’ work offers an enlightening perspective on the commonly spouted claim that Christianity is a game of blindness.
Jessica Tong | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2016
In Pursuit of Morality
The indicative and imperative grammar moods convey the fundamental truth in Christianity that how a person becomes more moral is through the foundational work of God transforming the person.
Joshua Jeon | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2016October 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
Reckless Faith: Pursuing God at Any Cost
During my final year at Middlebury, I was asked by Professor Gebarowski-Shafer to give a brief presentation on Pentecostalism in Korea and hold a question and answer session for her Global Pentecostalism class.
David Park | The Middlebury Vine | Fall 2016
The Purpose of Prayer: Secular Misconceptions and the Reality of Grace
Right off the bat, Jesus addresses God as “our Father.” This quickly establishes that prayer is relational, personal, and even familial.
Madeline Killen | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016February 2017
Theology of Terrorism: Exploring the Roots of Religious Violence
Unfortunately, the question of what “terrorism” actually means is a surprisingly difficult one, considering its near-constant use by the media today.
Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2016
Prophecy, Progress, and Repentance: The Role of the Individual in Human History
Therefore, prophecy is primarily concerned with what may occur if the errant currents of the present are allowed to flow unaltered into the local or temporally proximal future.
Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016December 2016
November 2016
September 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
The Christian Faith
One way God manifests His nature in us is through our rationality.
Irving Nestor | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016June 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
February 2016
January 2016
December 2015
October 2015
September 2015
The Call to Love
By saying that God must be loved with the entire mind, Jesus suggests that interpretations of scripture by faith or by logic need not contradict each other.
Trevor Davis | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 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 2015
The Religious Beliefs of Scientists
At first glance, there seems to be no doubt that scientists as a whole affiliate less with religion than the general public.
Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 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 2015August 2015
The Good News
One of the primary tenets of Christianity is that we are obligated to spread the “good news”—in other words, the Gospel. But what is this good news?
Elizabeth Jean-Marie | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015
Examining Moral Failure in the Bible
When many skeptics critique biblical figures such as David, Abraham, or Moses, they do so with the assumption that any evidence that compromises these figures’ moral authority compromises the Bible’s authority.
Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015May 2015
A House Built on Sand: Spirituality and Intellectual Honesty
College can be a great place to seek a faith that is both communal and individual, brought on by sincere reflection rather than indoctrination.
Pieter Hoekstra | Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015
Harvard Ichthus Answers 200 Questions About God At Texts-4-Toasties
"Forty students volunteered to deliver toasties, answer questions [about Christianity], cook, and man the computers in our three stations in Thayer Basement, a Pfoho kitchen, and the Leverett Rabbit Hole."
Augustine Collective | The Harvard Ichthus |
Mathematizing the Mind
A history of uncertainty in the field of Mathematics reveals ways we might scrutinize our own philosophies and faiths through a conventionally “rational” lens.
Hong Suh | The Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015
