The Intersection of Faith and Culture
When I heard this week that Robin Williams had taken his own life I was devastated. But I was also completely unsurprised. The death of a celebrity can be a touchy subject; many use the opportunity to rail against the injustice that we care so much about one person’s death while […]
Thirty-two months ago, Facebook conducted an “emotional contagion” study on how the emotions of people around us, as expressed through status updates, affect our own. Unsurprisingly, the study found that our friends’ posts do, in fact, influence what we share about our lives. More shocking to the researchers, however, was the […]
We met the summer before I entered university. He was handsome, sporty, and impressively intelligent. A year my senior, he looked out for me during my first months as a frosh. It was a close but ambiguous relationship. We talked on the phone for hours, lead our campus Christian group […]
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. (Albert Einstein) When I was 16, I imagined a lot of things about myself as a 20-something. I hoped to be out of […]
The most deadly strain in the Ebola family of viruses causes fever, weakness of body, diarrhea, at times internal bleeding, and in more than 55 per cent of cases, death. And right now, it’s sweeping through West Africa. The latest news sees multiple people being tested for the virus in […]
Bias is hard to eliminate for anybody; the Palestine and Israel conflict is no exception. With much of the Bible having its focus on Israel, many Christians feel a natural leaning towards the nation. But when it comes down to it, the sobering news is that there is much more […]
