August 2014
July 2014
St. Olaf College: Lutheran Identity in an Age of Pluralism
According to its mission statement, St. Olaf encourages students “to be seekers of truth, leading lives of unselfish service to others; and it challenges them to be responsible and knowledgeable citizens of the world.”
Darrell Jodock | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2014
Jesus and Women: Rebelling against Misogyny
The gospels tell of Jesus' extraordinary conduct towards women, which takes on a radical nature when considered in the context of the oppressive environment for women in the Ancient Middle East.
CJ Curtis | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013April 2014
The Pain of Privilege
Because of this privilege, there are generally two ways Christians at Berkeley come to grips with this reality: the path characterized by guilt and the path characterized by obligation.
David Park | UC Berkeley TAUG | 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
The Friend Who Went
I am still in my own healing process, although it has been a little over five and a half years since my cousin’s death.
Raquel Rodriguez | The Williams Telos | Fall 2013March 2014
February 2014
Religious but Not Spiritual
I don’t feel a spiritual energy, a spiritual connection, or a spiritual anything – especially when held in tension with the concrete, empirical, and measurable.
Michael Toy | Princeton Revisions | Fall 2013
Behold, I Stand at the Door
I am speaking up because I want Christians who think that there are no rapists in their midst or that sexual violence is an issue that only affects certain kinds of people to realize how different the truth looks.
Quitterie Gounot | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013
The Church Fathers and the Rationality of Christianity: An Interview with Dr. Sara Parvis
Clement of Alexandria complained that his fellow Christians thought of philosophy as some kind of ogre and ran screaming when they heard it.
Dr. Sara Parvis, Chris Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2013January 2014
Love Your Enemies: A Radical Call to Christian Pacifism
“But!” you cry – I can almost hear it now – what about saving society from criminals, and children from murderers, and Europe from Hitler, and America from the Terrorists? In sum, what about all the innocent people whom we have a duty to protect from the evildoers?
Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2013
Tolerance and Social Hope
Both the left and the right are unhappy with tolerance. No one wants to tolerate because that implies being loose with one’s values; no one wants to be tolerated because that means being regarded as deficient in some way.
Jonathan Lin | Princeton Revisions |September 2013
August 2013
Why Wait? An Analysis of Christian Ethical Perspectives on Premarital Sex
The traditional Christian injunction against premarital sex, writes C. S. Lewis, “is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it is now, has gone wrong."
Teng-Kuan Ng | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012
The Messy Theology of Justice
Love is not about the show and discipline of religious habits, but about the raw, arduous, and messy everyday work of justice.
Hana Lehmann | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2013
Christianity and the Gaze
The problem for Christians is thus the problem of invisibility, which empire exacerbates, for in empire, that which is unsightly is exported from the collective imagination.
Kelly Maeshiro | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012June 2013
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February 2013
On the Trinitarian God, Friendship and the Wonder of Creation – An Interview with Father James V. Schall
"You have taught college undergraduates for many years. What are the basic questions of meaning and purpose that every liberal arts student should consider?"
Christopher Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012, Volume 7, Issue 1
Aquinas on Everyday Emotions
As we understand ourselves and see extreme emotions in the light of many everyday impulses, we need to cultivate emotions that align with our intellect, reason, and that most fundamental desire, the desire that God implemented within us for Himself.
David Nolan | The Williams Telos | The Williams Telos, Fall 2012, Issue 8
