Strength in Weakness: A Call to Authentic Vulnerability

We learn early on that we should always appear as if everything is fine all the time. The demand to be effortlessly perfect leaves no room for openness about our struggles or imperfections.

Sarah Proctor | Duke Crux | Fall 2018

Against (Our Own) Heresies

[Heresy] starts with a narrow selective reading of scripture that is then over-emphasized and serves as a tangential point for one’s own desires.

Erik Johnson | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 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

Veritas Forum: Satisfaction and the Good Life

In this particular Veritas Forum, Dr. Tim Keller, prolific Christian author and founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, represented the Christian faith, and Professor Mark Lilla, intellectual historian at Columbia University, represented a secular worldview.

Nathan Barlow | The Columbia Crown and Cross | Fall 2016 (blog)

On the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

In studying historical events of antiquity, a historian must deal with the data at hand and attempt to ascertain the truth of a matter with varying degrees of certainty.

Sam Paek | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016

A Response to James Hunter’s To Change the World

While Hunter asserts that Christians should not be trying to change the world, there is nuance, for he does not advocate or condone passivity.

Ryan Bouton | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

On God and Suffering

Things become distorted when we are suffering, and it takes an understanding of something bigger than ourselves to realign life’s dimensions again.

Monica Perez and Michael Robinson | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2014

Gendered Grace in the Book of Isaiah

The real beauty of Isaiah’s strategy is how he declaws the female stereotypes of weakness and promiscuity and proceeds to deflect their stigma upon the very males that perpetuated them.

Sarah Durham | The Columbia Crown and Cross | Spring 2014

The Indispensable Image: Is the Church Really Necessary?

The question that haunts these chapters is: how will the nations come to know the one true God? Will it be through the futility of idols, or through the faithfulness of Israel?

Nick Nowalk | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013