August 2018
March 2018
January 2018
December 2017

Lending and Borrowing: A Christian Perspective
This paper will delve further into what the Bible has to say about lending and borrowing, how its interpretation has changed over time, and how it can work in today’s society.
Roy Walker | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2016
What Killed Robert Peace?
Robert Peace’s short and tragic life comes as a shock because many of us assume that poverty can be eradicated with more money, more intellect, more opportunities, and so on
Esther Jiang | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2016November 2017
September 2017

John Calvin and the Case for Refugees
Central to Calvin’s social policy was an intense devotion to the less fortunate in society. However they may present themselves, whether as orphans or widows or refugees, Calvin believed that he had a solemn and God-given duty to care for them.
Noah Black | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2016
Black Families and Labor Markets in the Post-Reconstruction Era
Failure to take the Black family on their own terms and in their own contexts has led many cultural critics to assign blame Black culture for the high poverty and single-motherhood rates that seem to afflict the poor Black community.
Michael Chen | The Wheaton Pub | Fall 2016April 2017
January 2017
October 2016
July 2016
June 2016
August 2014
June 2014

Christianity and the Pursuit of Happiness
From both a Christian angle and a humanist angle, I think happiness is not something we should be striving or aspiring towards, or viewing as the truth.
Christina Kellar | Swarthmore Peripateo |
Subsidiarity, Solidarity, and Social Teaching: A Catholic Perspective on Political Economy
In a statement echoed by President Obama, Francis laments the condition of a socioeconomic order in which “it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points.”
Nicholas Zahorodny | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014
Rethinking the Harvard Game
For 6 months away from Harvard I served as a semester missionary at a home for women experiencing crisis pregnancies. Most of these young women were victims of poverty, addiction, exploitation, and sexual assault.
Julie Coates | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013