The Intersection of Faith and Culture
In the week leading up to her return as the host and performer of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, bets were taken on Miley Cyrus’s performance. (How risqué would her outfits be? How many times would she pull a Gene Simmons with her tongue? How controversial would her skits be?) But […]
I was raised in an alternative culture. It’s not separate from the American mainstream — it’s deeply influenced by American media, even subordinate to it — but this culture still strives to be distinct. It has its own set of celebrities, its own bizarre jokes, its own “greatest hits rock” […]
Thanks to Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, we’ve all bought into silver linings on one level or another. The idea that even in the absolute worst situation, there is something beautiful to be found if you search hard enough. On pen and paper, it seems like a pretty great concept, […]
I’ve lived alone for just over a year now. At first, I was very overwhelmed and rather lonely. I was dealing with two new jobs on top of all of the responsibilities of apartment ownership (more like “rentership”), and because I work with so many snotty kids, I got sick […]
I’m not happy about it, but I am learning to come to terms with it. I’m talking about those of us in our 20s and 30s, otherwise known as Generation Y We’re said to be fickle, flaky, and frivolous. People say we’re privileged and often averse to hard work. And […]
It was my first week of college. My friends and I had decided to go out for a great dinner, and when the bill came, I grabbed a pen, wrote the total on the paper tablecloth, and divided it by five. The reason why I remember this night so clearly? […]
