The Peculiar Shape of Christian Identity

For Christians, personal identity is story-shaped (not abstract), derivative (not intrinsic), other-centered (not autonomous), and incomplete (not fully available to us in the here and now).

Teal McGarvey and Nick Nowalk | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2016

War of the Words

Which areas on campus are to operate as safe havens for students who want to be surrounded by people who share their views, and which spaces are where respectable discourse and argument is permissible?

Zachary Lee | Cornell Claritas | Fall 2017

Race and/or the Christian Identity?

All Christians share a place in the intersectionality of faith and race, but these identities need not be subject to an “either-or” debate.

Abi Bernard | Cornell Claritas | Fall 2017

Postmodernism and the Paradox of Tolerance

Postmodernism conflates truth and personhood, and in doing so confines the person to a state of perpetual insecurity and vulnerability. It is this fear of violence that prevents modern persons from recognizing the inherent dignity of their peers.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2017

“Scientia Potentia Est”

Scientia potentia est, more commonly known as “knowledge is power,” is an aphorism suggesting that higher forms of knowledge correlate with greater power.

Lauren Hall | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2017

Why Truth Matters: A Christian’s Role in the Pursuit of Knowledge

With these (mostly) postmodern developments, one would think that discerning the truth is a uniquely postmodern conundrum.

Jennifer Schmitt | UMinnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016

Death and Darwinism: A Patristic Approach

The Fall is the means by which Christian theology accounts for the disparity between the purported character of God and the tragic state of our world.

Christopher Iacovetti | The Wheaton Pub | Fall 2015

The Trial of Images

This “physicality” is the key, I think, in understanding the core difference in the way one of the methods is iconic and one is idolic.

Stephen Westich | The Wheaton Pub | Spring 2015

Christianity and Personality: Looking Past Myers-Briggs

The societal struggle to define the proper relationship between logical thought and passionate feeling within the human cognitive process is a recurring topic of discourse.

Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

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

Deconstruction and the Nature of God’s Grace

The Christian Church often either exuberantly embraces postmodernism or rejects it fully. Both of these extremist views show a willingness to put too much hope in human philosophies, a willingness which Saint Paul warns against in Colossians 2:8.

Caroline Suresh | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2013

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

God, Unifier of Mathematical Truths

It is peculiar enough that Christianity was once considered the more elegant worldview, and from this worldview came the rise of modern mathematics.

Willis Zhang | UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 1, Spring 2012

June 2018