Celebrating Easter

Anne BoemlerApril 8, 2010

Alleluia! Christ is risen! It’s Easter! Wait, you think. It’s Thursday. Isn’t it a bit late for all of this Alleluia stuff? Easter was last Sunday. Let’s remem...

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The Power of the Body of the Church

Chelsea CarlsonApril 7, 2010

For Easter, I decided to go to Mass with a close friend of mine. He’s attended Protestant services with me for the past month, so I thought that I ought to retu...

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The Value of the Chronicles of Narnia

Jordan GandhiApril 6, 2010

My senior year of high school, all the girls were raving about Ben Barnes, the actor who played Prince Caspian. I, not being a fan of long hair, preferred the a...

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Poem from John Updike

Nick NowalkApril 5, 2010

John Updike was one of the great American novelists of the past half century and one of only three writers to ever receive two Pulitzer prizes during his lifeti...

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Screwtape on Prefrosh

Judith HuangApril 3, 2010

My dear Wigglesworm, It has come to my attention that your charge has been admitted to Harvard, and that you are inordinately proud of this development. I wr...

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Reflection on Easter

J. Joseph PorterApril 2, 2010

Around this time in April, a little less than two thousand years ago, a man on a cross was crucified on a hill on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Why? (more...

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With Beauty I Will Be One

Judith HuangApril 1, 2010

I remember telling a friend a long long time ago, when I was just 13, that when I first started writing it was because of beauty. It was because of my otherwise...

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Dante and the Divine Comedy

Anne BoemlerApril 1, 2010

In my last post, I looked at how Dante uses the weaknesses and failures of Virgil as a character in the Divine Comedy to illustrate the impossibility of true st...

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Running

Anne BoemlerMarch 31, 2010

I went to a Phillips-Brooks House Association Leadership Intensive this past weekend. It wasn’t particularly fun, though I did somehow manage to learn a lot, es...

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Grace

Jordan GandhiMarch 30, 2010

Recently, a friend emailed me asking for help because his girlfriend has been having trouble accepting God's grace. Over my short time as a Christian, I have me...

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