In a word, because I want them to be good. Righteous. Heroic. Selfless. Lovers of justice and mercy. Haters of every distinct form of oppressive corruption, dishonesty, the heinous abuse of power, or cowardly, self-serving betrayal. Humbled at the recognition of their microscopic
12.21.2010| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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To start, we'd like to apologize for taking a while to get to the third installment of this series. As you can imagine, the last weeks of the semester are very stressful and busy, particularly for those geniuses who are writing theses like C. Marshall. C. Marshall: I take no issue with one way
12.7.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
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I am a doofus and turned in my laptop for repairs at FAS IT before uploading my blog post. So please forgive me - the "I Take Issue With" series will take off soon. Until then, however, I'm going to discuss some of the implications of psychology for Christian ethics. Many psychologists have studi
11.9.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
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Hello from St Louis, Missouri! It's been an interesting trip - and this is my last leg before I head back to Boston! God has been very good to me. Also, at the start of summer I decided I would paint a fish a day in honor of the Fish Tank. I finally got around to it this week, so here he is for Sund
07.18.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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After perusing the latest issue of the Ichthus, I had some reflections on Nick Nowalk's latest feature "On Not Being Narrow-Minded." Nick focuses heavily on the writings of Jonathan Edwards, a preacher from the first Great Awakening who was quite influential despite the fact that he graduated from Y
02.2.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
4 CommentsCourage and cruelty, honor and horror, miraculous escapes and damning coincidences are the stuff of film and novel, but also — at singular moments of history, for some few people — the stuff of life. In the wild days of World War II, a mild-mannered young German pastor, a theologian of some note
11.20.2009| Opinions, Volume 5, Issue 1 | Anne L. Goetz
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I recently discovered a wonderful blog, written by Stanley Fish for the New York Times. The first article that I read, “Why Do Writers Write?”, was an intriguing discussion of, well, the title question. Mr. Fish answered that writers write because they want to create something beautiful, not bec
09.9.2009| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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