Vocation and the Student

One of the clearest and most incisive indictments of careerism (though he never uses that specific term), was made by W.H. Auden in a speech, “Vocation and Society” to undergraduates at Swarthmore.

James Sutton | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2018-Spring 2019

Augustine Collective Leaders Retreat 2018

Highlights from the Leaders Retreat, April 13-15, 2018

Twenty-eight students representing the core leadership from 15 journals convened in the greater Boston area to share ideas, grow intellectually, and build community together.

Augustine Collective | Augustine Collective | April 13-15, 2018

Leavening and Life after Swarthmore

It turns out that rootedness isn’t actually a function of how long you stay in one place. It has to do with how you live when you’re there.

Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2015

Highlights from the Annual Retreat 2018

With over 220 students and alumni from more than 20 colleges in attendance, this year's retreat was by far our largest yet!

Augustine Collective | Augustine Collective News | January 19-20, 2018

Wet Feet: Navigating the Intellectual and Practical

Long run solutions without short run help do nothing for the people who are actually suffering from systemic problems right now.

Nathan Scalise | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2015

Harvard Ichthus Answers 200 Questions About God At Texts-4-Toasties

"Forty students volunteered to deliver toasties, answer questions [about Christianity], cook, and man the computers in our three stations in Thayer Basement, a Pfoho kitchen, and the Leverett Rabbit Hole."

Augustine Collective | The Harvard Ichthus |

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 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 |

A Papal Perspective on Community

Pope Francis has made much news, in particular, because of his unique approach towards religious and non-religious communities around the world.

Tony Farias | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013

Reading Marilynne Robinson: Liberation through Tradition

Is it bizarre that a contemporary creative writer would inspire a college student to start reading John Calvin? Absolutely. That’s the magnificence of Marilynne Robinson.

Danielle Charette | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013

Behold, I Stand at the Door

I am speaking up because I want Christians who think that there are no rapists in their midst or that sexual violence is an issue that only affects certain kinds of people to realize how different the truth looks.

Quitterie Gounot | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013

More Than Words

As an American I have been taught implicit and explicit lessons my whole life on what to order my life around, from family, to education, wealth, acceptance, etc. And while all of these things are good things, they all miss the point.

Tiffany Barron | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2013

Created to Serve: The Telos of Work

As a senior, I get asked what one of my close friends calls the “Benjamin Braddock question” rather frequently: “What are you going to do after you graduate?”

Josh Satre | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2013

The Messy Theology of Justice

Love is not about the show and discipline of religious habits, but about the raw, arduous, and messy everyday work of justice.

Hana Lehmann | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 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

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

If we wouldn’t tell our neighbors to constantly compare their lives to everyone else’s and feel inadequate by doing so, why do we ourselves do that?

Christina Keller | Swarthmore Peripateo | Volume 1, Issue 1

The Story of Peripateo in the Swarthmore Gazette

Founding members discuss Peripateo, a new journal of Christian discourse and artwork at Swarthmore College. Hanna Lehmann '13, Editor-in-Chief, adds, "Through the publication, we aspire to think critically and struggle with ideas of faith, reason, and truth.”

| The Swarthmore Daily Gazette |

Highlights from the Annual Retreat 2013

This year's retreat was held in Boston, MA from February 1st-2nd. Over 120 students from more than 15 colleges attended to learn more about running Christian journals on their campus, and to hear speakers John Lennox and Michael Lindsay discuss faith, vocation, and the academy. Student feedback and photos now up!

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December 2019