I feel like I write this every time I start a post about my blogging process, but that doesn’t mean it loses its relevancy, so here we go again: dang blogging is not easy. For those of you nodding along, sighing “amen”, I’d like to give you a virtual high-five of solidarity. Since I’ve started …
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I’ve been winding through the book of Isaiah for the past two months. For me and for many Christians, Isaiah can seem rather daunting due to its length (a whopping 66 chapters!) and convoluted content. Despite its many themes, complicated historical context, and intra-scripture references, one prominent idea that peppers the entire book is the …
The Grape Vine Story My dad has this grape vine that he has been cultivating carefully for the past five years. Prior to planting the seed, he dug a little two feet deep plot, picking out jagged rocks, broken pottery, and gnarled roots in the process. He then filled the freshly dug plot with store …
If you know me, you know I like to read, from classics to fantasy to historical fictions to YA to travel books to Christian to sci-fi to news to even research papers (ok, I only include this last one because they’re assigned, but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them). Basically, this means I’ve picked …
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Since this quarter’s started, I’ve been caught in a flurry of discontentments ranging from Christian community in college to long-distance friendships to my failure to love perfectly to…well, the list goes on. None are trivial topics, and all have preoccupied a greater slice of my mind than I’d like to admit. Towards the middle of …
Imagine a perfect city. What are its attributes? How does one erect and maintain them? These were the exact questions that Socrates attempts to answer in Plato’s Republic, a philosophic, dialogue-structured text that investigates the attainability of justice and virtue in a state. In this post, I’m going to highlight the link between Socrates’ investigation …
I invite you to study a particular fear with me, one that plagues people of all cultures, professions, and generations. It’s a fear that I have undeniably experienced, sometimes to an extreme, and it’s a fear that I guarantee you and the next person to read this post have experienced as well. It’s the fear …
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Hey guys! I guest posted a short review for C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity on another bibliophile’s blog explaining why you should read Mere Christianity. Have you read this book yet? What do you think? Reblogged from bookwormr : Thank you Macy of Macy Thoughts for this wonderful book review! Title: Mere Christianity Author: C.S. Lewis Genre: Christian nonfiction What is …
In an age where people, politics, and even some churches periodically treat Christianity as a tool to accomplish an agenda, it’s easy to mistake popular views on Christianity for biblical principles Christians believe. I’m not here to correct anyone’s views on whether or not Christians should support gays and lesbians, environmentalism, gun control, and so …
I feel bad for my roommate who had to endure no less than five-hundred hours of my venting, bewailing, and groaning last quarter all because I could not make up my mind between initially two then three then very quickly twenty million different combinations of college majors and minors. Sorry, Karlie. Thanks for being patient …