April 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
December 2013
November 2013

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
July 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
Grasping for Grace: The Strangeness and Difficulty of Faith in T.S. Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday”
Instants of intellectual ecstasy are close to what the Romantics meant when they contemplated the Sublime, which Edmund Burke classified as the “strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.”
Danielle Charette | Swarthmore Peripateo | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2013
Language and Its Uses: The Difficulty in Communicating with a Heavenly God
Scripture is littered with evidence that our voices — our interaction with God through language — have divine importance and implication.
Gabriel Brotzman | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2013 Volume II Issue IIJune 2013
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December 2012
August 2012

A Review of The Meaning of Life: A Short Introduction
Perhaps we are making the false assumption that the question, “what is the meaning of life?” can have an answer like “what is the meaning of the word ‘apple’?” does. What do we really mean when we ask, “what is the meaning of life?”
Kelly Maeshiro | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 2011
In Praise of Wonder
To believe Jesus’s words seems to simultaneously require foolishness and faith. In novelist Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy, it’s an old and learned priest who, when asked for his opinion on a miracle, smiles and says, “I don’t believe it’s possible. I do believe it happened.”
Inez Tan | The Williams Telos | Spring 2012