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

Aching Desires

The more compelling idea is how closely together Augustine links a horrible act with good desires – desires for love, comfort, security, and justice.

David Bussell | UNC To the Well | Fall 2018

Living in a Secular Age

In the end, secularity is a broadening of people’s experiences with where they locate meaning. From this lens, secularity doesn’t look so much like a good or bad thing, but more as an opportunity.

Noah Black | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2017

Porn is Not Private: Why Viewing Pornography Perpetuates Injustice

If we have the social conscience to denounce the lies of sexual objectification or normalizing violence, we cannot let pornography get away with the same ideas.

Brandon Wright | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2016

The Dilemma of Faith in a Secular Age

Likewise, ours is an age in which believers and non-believers alike struggle with doubt about whether our beliefs are indeed the right ones.

Micaela Walker | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016

Augustine Collective Featured in Comment Magazine

James K. A. Smith, author of You Are What You Love and Editor-in-Chief of Comment, on The Augustine Collective in the Spring 2016 issue.

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Review of How (Not) to be Secular by James K. A. Smith

How (Not) To Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor is what the author himself, James K. A. Smith, calls “your hitchhiker’s guide to the present.”

Nicholas Chuan | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Fall 2015

Fare Forward Essay Contest 2016

Fare Forward's second essay contest, in conjunction with the Augustine Collective, is now open. All entries must be received by December 31, 2016.

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Fare Forward Essay Contest 2015

Fare Forward's first essay contest, in conjunction with the Augustine Collective, is now open. All entries must be received by December 1, 2015.

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Highlights from the Annual Retreat 2015

Over 95 students from 15 colleges attended to hear keynote speaker James K. A. Smith (Calvin College) discuss how magazines create communities that can change the culture.

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I Believe in Magazines: Proverbs for Publishing

"Because magazines are literally periodical, they create an ongoing community—readers, writers, editors, benefactors. And only communities can change cultures."

Augustine Collective | James K.A. Smith | January 2015

June 2019