For my last-ever editor’s note, I’d like to tell a story about why The Ichthus’s mission is important: My sleep last night was not its usual dreamless gray, and instead I saw an angel in vivid Technicolor, so much more saturated and heart-achy than it ever could have been in eyes-open-real-
03.27.2010| Editor's Note, Volume 5, Issue 2 | Samir Paul
No CommentsLet me preface these thoughts by saying that I came back to Christian faith in a college Christian community and have been shown intense love over the past few years. And so it is with an equal love that I hope to think about some problems in how campus Christian fellowships relate to other Christia
01.4.2010| The Fish Tank | Samir Paul
3 CommentsEditor's Note What is it Good For? I was seven when I first saw war. It was 1995, and NATO had recently entered Bosnia, joining a conflict marked by incredibly brazen war crimes, including ethnic cleansing and brutal mass rape. As the conflict raged on that September, I watched from the s
11.20.2009| Editor's Note, Volume 5, Issue 1 | Samir Paul
No CommentsSamir Paul, Harvard Let us reframe the question: Do we take the hope of Christ seriously enough actually to trust in it? Nonviolence is a consequence of hearing the glad tidings of the Gospel. It follows from obedience to the messiah who would rather die than take up the sword of revolutionary
11.20.2009| The Dispatch, Volume 5, Issue 1 | Samir Paul
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In this series, I attempt to assess Second-Temple-era Jewish messianic expectation. Start at Part I or see all parts in the series. Perhaps the most familiar conception of the messiah—both to contemporary thinkers and to Second Temple Jews—was the royal figure of the Davidic line: a King.
11.19.2009| The Fish Tank | Samir Paul
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Links to stories coming soon. In the meantime, click image above for a PDF. - Editor's Note - What is it Good For? by Samir Paul '10 - The Dispatch - II: When Should Christians Go To War? by Samir Paul '10; Hans Anderson, Yale '10; Jinju Pottenger, Princeton '10; and Charles Clark, Da
10.15.2009| Table of Contents, Volume 5, Issue 1 | Samir Paul
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The notion of the messiah as a prophet is similarly criticized, but there is strong evidence in Jewish scripture that the Prophet was a role the Messiah would fill. Historically, a prophet in the Israelite tradition is literally a spokesperson—he or she is a representative of God to the people.
10.5.2009| The Fish Tank | Samir Paul
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