David Foster Wallace on True Education

Nick NowalkMay 23, 2011

David Foster Wallace, the enigmatic and fascinating author of Infinite Jest and (the posthumously published) The Pale King, gave a remarkable commencement addre...

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The Messiah No One Was Looking For

Nick NowalkMay 16, 2011

In C. H. Dodd's expert but overlooked work, History and the Gospel, the renowned former professor of divinity at Cambridge pointed out a surprising piece of evi...

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A Brief Word About Civility In Dialogue

Nick NowalkMay 9, 2011

The Christian student group I work with at Harvard is co-sponsoring a reading project this summer along with a humanist student group in which we will, together...

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Pascal on Cheap Unbelief

Nick NowalkMay 4, 2011

In reviewing the polemical, vitriolic works of such "New Atheists" as Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennet in his book Atheist Delusions, David Bentley Hart loo...

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Response to bin Laden’s Death

Chelsea CarlsonMay 3, 2011

The news of Osama bin Laden's death was greeted here at Harvard with shouts of, "USA! USA!", joyous screams, waving of flags, and wielding of Fourth of July spa...

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Pascal’s God-Shaped Hole

Nick NowalkMay 2, 2011

Blaise Pascal's observation about the indelible God-shaped hole or vacuum within each fallen human being is justly famous.  However, the larger context is less ...

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What is Torture?

Jordan GandhiMay 1, 2011

"Why is shooting an unarmed man in the face legal and proper while enhanced interrogation, including waterboarding of a detainee under very strict controls and...

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A Royal Wedding

Roshni PatelApril 29, 2011

Look to Japan; look to Libya; look to the tornadoes ripping through the U.S; you can probably just look in your own household: our world seems like it is barely...

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He is Risen!

Nick NowalkApril 25, 2011

“Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead,” the Misfit continued, “and he shouldn’t have done it. He thrown everything off balance. If He did what He sa...

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A Piece Of Her Faith

Roshni PatelApril 22, 2011

God made us relational beings- that is, He made us dependent. First and foremost, we are dependent on Him; we are also, however, dependent on other believers....

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