May 2018
February 2018
Searching for the Ear of God
I myself reckoned with the reality I faced: I also thought prayer was sort of stupid. It certainly felt stupid, primarily for two reasons.
Jesse Rines | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2017
Order, Disorder, Reorder
Why does work feel like work? Here is the end at the beginning: work is frustrating. It can be extremely satisfying to produce something, but it can be simultaneously excruciating – but what excellence and beauty can come from deep suffering. Early on in the semester, a man named Jeremy Begby spoke at Cornell.[1] He […]
Emani Pollard | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2017
The Power of the Gospel: Experiences of Christian Slaves in the Antebellum South
The “invisible institution” - as historians have referred to slave religion for years – was able to foster organization in the slave community through enslaved spiritual leaders and the secret religious meetings they held.
Luke Julian | Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2017December 2017
October 2017
The Hidden Life of Liturgical Chant in Rachmaninoff’s Music
Rachmaninoff, always inspired by the elder Tchaikovsky, also decided to try his hand at liturgical music, but unlike most of his contemporaries, he found something very affecting about it, and after studying chant in depth, he composed a significant amount for the Church.
Ben Costello | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016
Letting Law Go? A Lutheran Perspective on Law in “Frozen”
By analyzing Elsa’s changing understanding of law, as it relates to her moral duties to her kingdom and to her sister, we hope to show how Frozen can be interpreted through the paradigm of Luther’s conception of law.
Luke Shurson and Alexander Quanbeck | St Olaf Avodah | Spring 2015
God Loves Hip-Hop
Hip-hop will never be a “perfect” platform for God’s message because humans will never be “perfect” vessels for God’s message, yet many of its musicians recognize their God-given blessings and brokenness and are excited to project them into the musical world.
Abigail Rogers-Berner | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2017
Spanish Mass at Harvard
I imagine there are other bilingual students at Harvard who experience these same discouragements at worship services for other faiths. However, this investigation will focus particularly on the experience of Spanish-speaking Catholics.
Marina Spinelli | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2016May 2017
Understanding God Through Modern Rap: Coloring Book
In this series we want to show that the increased tendency of modern rappers to reference Christian themes in their lyrics represents a desire to use the shared experience of African American Christianity as a vehicle to speak about contemporary life.
Damilare Aboaba, Gaired Jordan, and Emani Pollard | Cornell Claritas | Fall 2016
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 2017March 2017
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A Few Thoughts on “the Future”
This problematic tension between one’s desires to make an indelible mark upon the memory of this world and the elusive nature of the future is resolved in a very unexpected way within the Christian tradition.
Viktor Palenyy | UC Berkeley TAUG | Fall 2014
Revisiting the Puritans: Recreation, Community, and the Christian Mind
One of the most significant things that [the Puritans] have left behind, I believe, is the emphasis on a liberal arts education.
Nathaniel Schmucker | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014August 2014
Second Chances
How then can a Christian advocate punishment that never ends and a criminal background that never fades?
Jessica Zou | Princeton Revisions | Fall 2013
Leaving Space to Listen
As such, listening to God requires listening in the most literal sense of the word. When I listen to God, what I do is very similar to what I do before a jazz concert.
Nathan Scalise | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014June 2014
May 2014
UC Berkeley’s TAUG Hosts Cafe Night
"Each Cafe Night is based on the theme of the journal. This semester's Cafe Night was called "To Know in Part" because the theme of our Spring 2014 issue is Science and Faith."
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A Response to Ross Douthat’s Bad Religion
Adopting C.S. Lewis’ concept of love’s responsibility, Ross Douthat harshly criticizes American Christianity in hopes of encouraging a stronger future.
Elena Zinski | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012January 2014
Reflections of a Brown Derby
There are nights when I try to sleep but can’t because I am preoccupied with Derby-related things – our adventures and gigs, the group dynamic, our relationships. These people have managed to occupy a nook in my heart that I never really thought I was willing to share.
Russyan Mark Mabeza | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Fall 2013
On The Book of Mormon: Christianity without Scripture
The Book of Mormon provides a caricature of what religion might look like if it rested only upon its practices and not on the truth of the underlying story.
Shaun Lim | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013December 2013
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 |June 2013
The Stranger: Christianity and the Immigrant Story
“I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” This quote comes from the Gospels, which are based in the ministry of Jesus. When we stop and look at the story of Jesus, we see an understanding of what it means to be a stranger.
by Yared Portillo, with help from Helen Plotkin | Swarthmore Peripateo | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2013
The Creamer Medieval Gallery
In her book Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums, Carol Duncan equates ritual — here defined as sets of practices which induce a transcendent experience — with the experience of viewing art in a museum.
Rachel Himes | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2013, Vol II, Issue II
