August 2017
The Year of Mercy: A Retrospective
Before the summer of 2016 began, I remember telling my spiritual director that I felt God wanted to teach me about mercy, especially with my favorite job: counseling a local summer camp for kids.
Michael Miskovski | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2017
Nonviolent Action and the Revolution of the Cross
In fact, in line with this trend of “questioning institutions”, MIT has recently announced a $250,000 award to further encourage “extraordinary civil, non-violent disobedience for the benefit of society.” But why is this all happening?
Matthew Chun | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2017March 2017
January 2017
November 2016
July 2016
Forgiveness: Unjust and Illogical?
How, then, do we address the seeming injustice in forgiveness? Is forgiveness inherently a legitimization of wrong?
Tori Campbell | The Yale Logos | Spring 2016
Forgiveness and Justice
We do not forgive because we seek to appease white America who feels guilt and shame for not speaking out that black lives matter.
Emani Pollard | The Cornell Claritas | Fall 2015April 2016
January 2016
April 2015
March 2015
January 2015
December 2014
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
Second Chances
How then can a Christian advocate punishment that never ends and a criminal background that never fades?
Jessica Zou | Princeton Revisions | Fall 2013
Escaping the Prison of Guilt
It is important to acknowledge the harm that our sins cause, but the depth of one’s guilt should not be a standard for one’s moral worth.
Marcos Martinez | | The Columbia Cross & CrossJuly 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
January 2014
Abundant Life, Abundant Love, and the Empty Tomb
At the empty tomb, I want to ask the same two questions as at the Cross - why is it necessary, and why is it possible?
Nathan Scalise | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013
On The Book of Mormon: Christianity without Scripture
The Book of Mormon provides a caricature of what religion might look like if it rested only upon its practices and not on the truth of the underlying story.
Shaun Lim | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013December 2013
May 2013
August 2012
The Incarnation
Christianity doesn’t preach a distant God who turned a blind eye to mankind, but rather tells of a God who became a man himself. God didn’t simply send a message; He became the messenger. We recall this momentous occasion – the divine incarnation – each year at Christmas.
Jordan Monge | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 2011
The Marriage of Justice and Mercy
Christianity has seeming contradictions like a dog has fleas. This one consistently arises: how can a God of justice be, at the same time, a God of mercy? George MacDonald brings this contradiction to a point: “Those who say justice means the punishing of sin, and mercy the not punishing of sin, and attribute both to God, would make a schism in the very idea of God.”
Andrew Kim | Brown Cornerstone | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2012