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Phew! The Fish Tank After Finals…
Hello wonderful readers! Today At 5:00 p.m., those students who, due to woeful calendrical misfortune, happen to be taking Harvard’s very last final of 2009, will put down their pencils and experience for the first time ever an actual winter break. Not a fake winter break, the kind where you have to study for finals
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Is Ecology Enough?
I recently read a popular science book called Life on a Young Planet by Harvard’s own Andy Knoll. The majority of the book was a decently interesting synopsis of current thought on paleobiology. But because every popular science book must have sappy epilogue (or a sappy prologue, or both), Knoll took a few pages at
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Happy Thanksgiving from the Ichthus!
The Ichthus staff gives thanks for our brief Thanksgiving respite from classes and blogging! Now that the break has ended, and lest the tummy-aches, black Friday shopping, and extra sleep numb us to the blessings of God, I think it wise to remind ourselves of the purpose of this holiday. George Washington pronounced the first
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A Meditation
Lord, may the fruit of our minds be to the praise of Your glory. When I think, I think in words and pictures. The words and the pictures must be connected, because sometimes the pictures have something to do with the words or the words have something to do with the pictures. But I’m not
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Against Death Itself
The Body of Christ is at war. We are at war. Easter is war. In the winter, when ice descends on Harvard and the birds fall silent, we are quick to forget the promise of new life. We succumb to the slow relentless friction of our academic existence, propelled dumbly forward by fear of failure
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5 Things Christianity Isn’t About
1. Christianity isn’t about believing things for no reason. American Christians have a pernicious tendency to characterize faith as belief without evidence or reason. Of course Christian faith isn’t about believing things without evidence or reason. If it were, Christians would be mad – pitiful, dangerous, and incurable. Christian faith is about trusting God. It’s
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