April 2017
February 2017
January 2017
September 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
Blessed Are the Poor: Debunking the Protestant Work Ethic
Insofar as Christians began to treat wealth earned through hard work as a sign of salvation, they were departing from what had been historically believed and taught.
Roger Yu | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2016
God’s Justice: A Shifting Standard?
If Noah and Abraham were just before God because they were sinless, it would theoretically be possible for any human being at any point in history to be just in the same way.
Dinnie Ee | The Yale Logos | Spring 2016July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
An Interview with Tim Nelson: Christianity and Social Justice
"The pattern of the world is to segregate, to separate, to dominate, for people to try to get as much as they can for themselves."
Karl Johnson | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016
God, Good, and Evil
We must look for a foundation that incorporates within itself the moral laws we look for, not deriving itself from them as the societal laws do.
Samuel Cooper | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016April 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
The Sin of Adam: Two Allegorical Accounts of the Fall
Recovering the literal sense of the Greek hamartia—translated in our Bibles as "sin"—we have "missed the mark."
Erin Kast | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2015March 2016
July 2015
June 2015
Kyrios Christos: The Lordship of Jesus Christ Today
Profession of a “lord” is not merely religious language for adoration on some spiritual plane; it is also a matter of social and political protest.
Michael F. Bird | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
And He Began to Teach Them Many Things
An interview with Professor Matthew Harrison, who previously wrote an article called "Invited to Care" about his calling to teach mathematics to those in prison.
Elizabeth Jean-Marie | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015
Breaking Christians’ Silence on Racism
In the wake of Michael Brown’s shooting in August 2014, there was a noticeable dearth of active, grassroots Christian involvement in the racial conversation in Ferguson, Missouri and the rest of the United States.
Jessica Tong | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015May 2015
April 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
A Catholic Confesses
Confession works even when I don’t expect or believe it will.
Jane Thompson | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
Where is God in History?
There remains one point about the narrative of history that is worth rejoicing over, and that is the power of larger, contextual narratives.
Henry Li | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
For my parents, success has always been defined by score-driven, resume-building standards.
Susanna Im | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2014March 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
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
God’s Sovereignty in the Midst of Depression
Reconciling the Christian hope we are meant to have with the crushing experience of hopelessness, anxiety and sadness we may actually feel can seem like an irresolvable struggle.
Tatianna Kufferath | The Columbia Crown & Cross |
When My Faith Becomes Merely Rules
If my religion were only about me following rules, my faith would be imprisoning and stifling. I’d be guilt-ridden, constantly feeling like I’m not good enough for God.
Cia Mathew | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2014June 2014
Peace in the Unending Storms
I felt so empty clutching the cross I was wearing around my neck and I just remember thinking, ‘I don’t want to keep living this nightmare.’
Meriah Barajas | UC Berkeley To An Unknown God | Spring 2014
Costly Consolation: Freud’s Illusion and Bonhoefferian Grace
Sigmund Freud once wrote that the idea of religion is “born from man’s need to make his helplessness tolerable.”
Paul Escher | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2014May 2014
April 2014
A Papal Perspective on Community
Pope Francis has made much news, in particular, because of his unique approach towards religious and non-religious communities around the world.
Tony Farias | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013
Mourning Into Dancing
It was good and healthy to have time to mourn over the uses of my body that I’ve lost, and it’s a process that comes in waves.
Laura Mallison | The Claremont Ekklesia | Winter 2013
Tunnel Vision
Soon Frankenstein is at the mercy of his ambition, channeling his energies into one creation while ignoring the other—made up of human beings and the earth they inhabit—that he used to love above all else.
Sandy Fox | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2013
The Christian Glutton
At its heart, gluttony comes from distrust. More than an issue of self-control, gluttony is rooted in fear.
Alice Su | Princeton Revisions | Spring 2013March 2014
Reading Marilynne Robinson: Liberation through Tradition
Is it bizarre that a contemporary creative writer would inspire a college student to start reading John Calvin? Absolutely. That’s the magnificence of Marilynne Robinson.
Danielle Charette | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013
String Theory, the Multiverse, and God
It might seem that God and string theory, like Harry and Voldemort, cannot live while the other survives.
Tom Rudelius | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013
The Indispensable Image: Is the Church Really Necessary?
The question that haunts these chapters is: how will the nations come to know the one true God? Will it be through the futility of idols, or through the faithfulness of Israel?
Nick Nowalk | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013February 2014
Faith and Reason
Truth, the great 13th century philosopher Thomas Aquinas insisted, can only ever be one.
Christopher Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012
On 61 Main: An interview with Judy Williams, Healer
The entranceway of the Northern Berkshire Pregnancy Support Center (NBPSC) matched the adjacent storefronts; hollowed out of the main building there was space to unbutton a coat, shift a shoulder bag, or nervously shake off second thoughts before reaching for the door handle.
Bianca Brown | The Williams Telos | Fall 2013
