May 2017
Augustine Collective Alum Obasi Shaw ’17 Awarded Honors for Rap Thesis at Harvard
Entitled “Liminal Minds,” the album combines such influences as Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper and Geoffrey Chaucer to portray contemporary black life in America. Shaw is the first in Harvard's history to submit a rap album for the senior thesis project.
Augustine Collective News | Augustine Collective | Spring 2017
The Purpose of Prayer: Secular Misconceptions and the Reality of Grace
Right off the bat, Jesus addresses God as “our Father.” This quickly establishes that prayer is relational, personal, and even familial.
Madeline Killen | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016April 2017
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Is Genesis 1 Really About Creationism?
A quick confession: I used to be really, really creationist.
Colin Aitken | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016
Bread Alone: Earth, Heaven, and Politics in the Wilderness
Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor takes a materialistic approach to religious life because of the materialism of political life.
Phil Jeffery | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2015April 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
Medieval and Modern Meet: Advent
As a Christian scholar, I read the medieval texts that are my primary area of study with a curious double vision.
Kathryn Mogk | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016
Edwards and Thoreau: Typologies of Lakes
In composing their accounts of lakes, Jonathan Edwards and Henry David Thoreau drew from different sources and operated out of clashing ideological frameworks.
Sarah Boss | The Wheaton Pub | Fall 2015January 2016
Fare Forward Essay Contest 2015 Winner: Emily Lau
The winner of Fare Forward Essay Contest 2015 is Emily Lau '17 of The Columbia Crown & Cross, for The Desire for a Relational God Behind Kurt Vonnegut's "EPICAC."
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Jesus and the Problem of Myth
In particular, the idea of a righteous man/god who is sacrificed in order to atone for the transgressions of a nation is present in many cultures.
Max Graham | The Yale Logos | Fall 2015
The Problem of Evil: An Ichthus Roundtable
In addition to our own thoughts, we provide links to a wide variety of pieces on the problem of evil by professional philosophers.
The Harvard Ichthus Staff | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015November 2015
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The Desire for a Relational God Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s “EPICAC”
The story is ostensibly a sad tale of a short-lived machine exploited by humans, yet it is also a story about a creature yearning to connect with what it perceives as a higher order of beings.
Emily Lau | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2015
You Be the Judge: Shakespeare’s Moral Universe
There is, however, a fundamental difference between the approach of Milton and Dante on the one hand and Shakespeare on the other.
Danielle D’Souza | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015
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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Review of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal
"A seemingly happy life may be empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause."
Chenchen Li | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015June 2015
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Affliction Furthers the Flight in Me
Inspired by the story of the resurrection, 17th century English poet George Herbert wrote his short poem “Easter Wings.” The poem beautifully recreates the restorative power of Christ’s resurrection.
Chih McDermott | The Williams Telos | Fall 2013
A Postmodern Unity
It is not that of two people who describe their experience with God slightly differently, one must be in error. Rather, the nature of one’s experience with God will be different.
David Paiva | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013
Gendered Grace in the Book of Isaiah
The real beauty of Isaiah’s strategy is how he declaws the female stereotypes of weakness and promiscuity and proceeds to deflect their stigma upon the very males that perpetuated them.
Sarah Durham | The Columbia Crown and Cross | Spring 2014
The Crownless Again Shall Be King
We believe that the Christian faith can contribute much to an academic life. We’re also convinced that the ideas and diversity of a university can enrich the life of faith.
The Columbia Crown & Cross Editorial Board | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2014
Poetry and the Redemption Story
We are not academics searching to excavate truth from a divine treatise. Instead we are beings intimately woven into a poem in which God tenderly shows us what to love, how to love, and why we love.
Siqi Cao | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2014April 2014
A Nasty, Dreadful Thing
I realized far too late that I should have not only given him, my brother, the eighty dollars, but twenty dollars more than he asked for.
Henry Li | The Harvard Ichthus |
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 2013March 2014
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A Response to Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason
Thomas Paine, a famed Revolutionary political activist and Founding Father, is also remembered for his attempts to expose Christianity as a fraud in his pamphlet Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology.
Suiwen Liang | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012
Symbols of God
But how are symbols to be used when the divine—whether as God the Father, the divine aspect of Christ, or the Holy Spirit—is as St. John of Damascus puts it: “uncircumscribed and unable to be represented?”
Rachel Himes | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2013October 2013
Why Jesus?
J.R.R. Tolkien has undoubtedly captivated the heart of many in his Middle Earth saga, The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s ability to resonate with his audience lies in his tale’s appeal to human nature itself.
Mako Nagasawa | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012
On Money
We accept Paul’s claim that the love of money is the root of all evil, but we know that that verse does not entail us to shun money itself as an evil. Money, at the end of the day, is also part of His Creation, and all things were created for His glory.
Richard Lee and April Koh | The Yale Logos | Winter 2012September 2013
Silver Spoons: Les Misérables and the Power of Grace
Through the bishop’s actions, Valjean directly experiences the power of godly grace, and is confronted with a serious question: How am I to respond?
Nigel Brady | The Claremont Ekklesia | Fall 2013
Meeting God in the Classroom
God takes delight when we take delight in His creation; if we would prefer to study philosophy instead of medicine, Caribbean wildlife instead of law, or Slavic poetry instead of business, we should ask ourselves if that desire comes from God. If it does, maybe He gave us that desire for a reason.
Calvin Jennings | UPenn Common Subjects |August 2013
The Didion Conundrum
It’s clawing and creeping and unavoidable, and you become so exhausted and feel so generic in your depression that no one speaks of it. No one speaks of the [sophomore] slump.
Margaret Nickens | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2013
On Writing
In writing—in any creative act—we image our God, who spoke each minute detail of the world into existence, and in taking time to craft story out of words, we affirm the inherent value of embodied life that Christ so beautifully redeemed through the Incarnation.
Debbie Knubley | The Wheaton Pub | Fall 2012July 2013
My Chains Are Gone
Soon, though, I caught myself identifying and sympathizing with [Milton's] Satan. It was, at first, a very disconcerting realization. And yet, the more we read, the more I reflected that I was familiar with Satan’s Hell.
Chih McDermott | The Williams Telos | Spring 2013
You Have Not Spoken of Me What Is Right: The Brothers Karamazov and the Book of Job
Dostoevsky told his wife that Job was one of the earliest books to make a “deep impression in [his] life,” and its influence on his work is far-reaching.
David Truschel | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2013, Volume 7, Issue 2