After an aimless time searching for an ambiguous truth, I behold the idea incarnate. It takes the shape my mind always dreamed– a fantasy realized and released– one pale lily among rough reeds. Without reaching out to its beauty, I fall back into tangibility, leave all untouched in silence, with nothing to show for...
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We are all — every last one of us — obsessed with giving good impressions. We like to be thought of as smart, attractive, funny, virtuous, and strong; we want everyone to believe that we have it “all together.” The staff of The Ichthus is certainly no exception. It is our secret hope that...
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“When an overly institutionalized form of Christianity is, or ever has been, battered into pieces and opened to the air of the world around it, that faith-form has both itself spread and also enabled the spread of the young upstart that afflicted it”1 claims Phyllis Tickle in The Great Emergence. Believing that we are...
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But it is true, they fear it more than death, beauty is feared more than death, more than they fear death. - William Carlos Williams Theology seeks the particulars of how God works in the world and who He is, how the Infinite interacts with we the limited. Aesthetics pursues a strikingly similar aim:...
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“There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on thinking and reflecting at all.” - Michel Foucault Few potential accusations can strike fear into the hearts of enlightened moderns as...
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Everyone wants to be happy. How to be happy – well, that can become a divisive topic. The happiest moments of my life have come from romantic dates with my fiancée, vacations with my family, hard-won games of ultimate Frisbee, and times of leisurely immersion in a book. Or, I think of special celebrations...
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“But that which God foreknows, it needs must be, So says the best opinion of the clerks. Witness some cleric perfect for his works, That in the schools there’s a great altercation In this regard, and much high disputation… Whether the fact of God’s great foreknowing Makes it right needful that I do a...
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