October 2013
September 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
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
