When we were little, we lived in Maryland, where weeping willows gracefully swept their branches over the ground and the air always had a spark of energy. T...
Harvard is an amazing place, a true hodgepodge of humanity. Here you find people of every shape and size and color and background and belief. But they all see...
Doubt is not the arch-nemesis of faith, but its progenitor.
One of my favorite forms of ministry is to youth, largely because of what we learn from watchin...
I had my eyes closed for the first two songs. By closing my eyes I could block out distractions and transport myself to the comfort of the most familiar wor...
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A week ago, my best friend back home sent a very personal Facebook message to some of his closest friends, myself included. After almost two-and-a-half year...
This semester, I am enrolled in a freshman seminar, Happiness in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. The course description ends with the following words: “We wil...
Update 9/11/12: When I wrote this a few days ago, I never imagined the overwhelmingly positive response it would receive. Over 2,700 people have read this blog ...
The word "waste" is both a noun and a verb. The noun form of "waste" can mean "trash," which deepens the verb "to waste" beyond simply failing to appropriately ...
You can't help but grin when you realize that your favorite New Testament theologian and your favorite physician-geneticist have partnered to write a song toget...