January 2017
The Heart of Man is Not Compound of Lies: Redemptive Sacrifice Found in Fictional Literature
Joseph Campbell, a 20th-century scholar of mythology and religion, wrote that myths indicate the universal search for meaning, as well as reflect the journey of each individual.
Lydia Anderson | CalPoly Aletheia | Fall 2016
Restless Seeker: From Absurdism to Hope
Perhaps as Camus had illustrated in the myth of Sisyphus, the struggle itself was enough to fill the heart. Except that with time it was not.
Erjona Topalli | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016July 2016
June 2016
April 2016
November 2015
August 2015
July 2015
The Rhetoric of Worldviews: Narratives of Violence and Peace
On September 16, 2014, an incident occurred at James Madison University (JMU) that soon attracted the attention of national media news outlets.
Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015
Knowing Christ through Musical Worship
I don’t know whether this connection is deep and natural for others, but for me, it has always made sense: God and song, song and God.
Lilian Chow | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2015May 2015
April 2015
February 2015
December 2014
September 2014
Smeared Mascara and Baby Steps
I now believe that as I learned more and more about the nature of God, it became easier for me to be more patient with my sister, to let my guard down and not expect the worst, and to both forgive and forget when things got rocky.
Pauline Goodson | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014
On God and Suffering
Things become distorted when we are suffering, and it takes an understanding of something bigger than ourselves to realign life’s dimensions again.
Monica Perez and Michael Robinson | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2014August 2014
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 & Cross
Radical Generosity: How Christians Fail
According to one set of statistics, Christians give at 2.5% of income per capita, less than the 3.3% of income per capita given during the Great Depression.
Peter Hickman | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013July 2014
Responding to a Mother’s Schizophrenia
My mother is schizophrenic. During her moments of irrationality, I am tempted to curse God for inflicting her with such an illness.
Anonymous | Princeton Revisions | Spring 2009
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 |
Christianity and Personality: Looking Past Myers-Briggs
The societal struggle to define the proper relationship between logical thought and passionate feeling within the human cognitive process is a recurring topic of discourse.
Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014June 2014
Christianity and the Pursuit of Happiness
From both a Christian angle and a humanist angle, I think happiness is not something we should be striving or aspiring towards, or viewing as the truth.
Christina Kellar | Swarthmore Peripateo |
Christ’s Crowning Glory
Most directly, [the symbol of the Crown and Cross] refers to Columbia’s founding as an Anglican college: the fruit of a Christian Church under the British monarch.
Luke Foster | The Columbia Crown and Cross | 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
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
February 2014
January 2014
December 2013
Beautiful Things
In this photography, we strive to re-envision places of function and practicality as places of beauty.
Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2013
Keep Asking
In the absence of a story that connects us to what is going on around us, we find that any sort of yearning for purpose is quickly replaced by a frenzied and arbitrary pursuit of desires. The Christian faith leads us elsewhere.
Roshni Patel | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012November 2013
October 2013
The Personal Journey of a Faith-Filled Scientist
My college pastor once asked me, “What does Christ have to do with chemistry?”
David A. Vosburg | The Claremont Ekklesia | Fall 2014
‘Here We May Love Truly’
On CS Lewis' The Great Divorce: Apart from the fixed reality of Christ, we cannot help but live in our self-constructed unrealities. Yet to find Christ is to find heaven itself.
Shirley Li | The Williams Telos | Spring 2013
Suffering and the Closeness of God
In recent months, a sudden bout of physical and mental illness has forced me to reexamine what it means to believe in God regardless of circumstance.
Howard Chang | The Claremont Ekklesia | Fall 2013August 2013
July 2013
No Fear In Love
Whatever it was, it convinced me that thinking of myself less meant thinking less of myself.
Kristen Fu | UC Berkeley To An Unknown God | 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 |June 2013
How Can the Gods Meet Us Face to Face?
The writer and Christian apologist G.K. Chesterson wrote, “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity,” and Till We Have Faces is this sort of necessary fiction that doesn’t only alter our perspective but has the power to call into question who we are and what we live for.
Micaela Walker | UC Berkeley To An Unknown God | Volume 6, Issue 1, Spring 2013
Eternity
I am afraid of death. I don’t mean in the buried-six-feet-under sense. Rather, I am afraid of dying by way of the American dream: to wake up some day in a life so comfortable that I have forgotten my dreams.
Shirley Li | The Williams Telos | Issue 9, Spring 2013May 2013
March 2013
Eliot’s Early Poetry and the Search for a Saving Faith
In the three years of reverberations from “The Waste Land,” Eliot still struggled with the same problem, as well as the same solution. He was dissatisfied with despair but simply could not find a better response.
Will Hogan | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012, Volume 7, Issue 1
Secular Ethics Find Cohesion In Christ
A Christian ethic derived from the Bible can incorporate each perspective in some fashion: existentially, we seek the inner satisfaction of living as God designed us to live; normatively, this design is based on God’s authoritative word and law; and situationally, we seek to obey God by finding opportunities to advance his kingdom.
Willis Zhang | UPenn Common Subjects |February 2013
January 2013
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
Sacramental Complications: Sufjan Stevens’ “Casimir Pulaski Day”
Sufjan Stevens is adored by the indie music movement, which is often antiestablishment and anti-religious, yet his music honestly handles the grittiness of lived faith. “Casimir Pulaski Day” is the firsthand narration of the death of a loved one within a Christian community.
Tristan Macdonald | 5 College Slant | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2012
Mustard Seed Faith
Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon which describes our tendency to seek out information that confirms our opinions and beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts what we believe. I take a lot more time on each page when I’m reading C.S. Lewis compared to Richard Dawkins.
Andy Morgosh | The Williams Telos | Spring 2012
