In my last post, I discussed some ways of jolting myself out of my functionally atheist rut—ways of remembering God in times and places that aren’t always conducive to doing so. In this post, I’d like to add another: praying through prayers written by other people. There are several good reasons to use set prayers
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Hi folks! I am back out of the dark of internetlessness! Sorry to have missed last week, but Nick Nowalk did an admirable job of making you not notice, I am sure. Closing Remarks (Brown University) – On Mathematics: A Christian Student’s Perspective – Fascinating take on the field people think of as the most
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This morning I sat down to write my blog post and realized that it had been a long time since I had really thought about God. To be more precise, it had been just about a week—since I wrote my last post, in fact. This concerned me. It’s not very comfortable to look up from
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In life, I’ve had few challenges finding like-minded people with which to surround myself. (It helps that my parents are pretty devout Christians and we’ve been going to church for as long as I can remember). I’ve never had trouble finding and befriending other Christians. I have found a church home at the Harvard Ichthus,
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I was watching Watership Down, the animated film last week in mourning for my two bunnies – Moonbun, whom I had to give up after fostering for a semester, and Muffin, who passed away in Australia. It’s a beautiful, brave, witty, wise and sweet film – the kind of children’s film that is pretty rare
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Well, if you just look at this girl, you would quite easily come to the conclusion that she is liberal. I mean, come on. I wear flowers in my hair. I steal unnamed flowers from old churchyards and leave them at the feet of sleeping homeless people. I’m a writer and an artist and well,
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I am becoming more and more convinced that Christianity is a balancing act, that following Christ requires the grace of a dancer as well as the grace of God. Danger, for the Christian, lies on all sides – for he lives behind enemy lines. The Christian must be doctrinally sound, but not dogmatic; wise but
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