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A Crisis in Xinjiang: China’s Attempts to Brainwash the Uyghur Population
“You can’t tell anyone what happened, you can only lie down quietly. It is designed to destroy everyone’s spirit.” “There were many people in those cells who lost their minds.” “The screams echoed throughout the building. I could hear them during lunch and sometimes...
Peacefully Expectant Eschatology
Our world has long seen the violence of homogeneous regimes toil and struggle on its soil— this age-old drama is nothing new. From the police brutality seen last summer to the often-mentioned Holocaust that scorned Germany in the 1940s, humankind seems averse to...
Tension Brought to Peace: Juxtapositions Within Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
The Puritan sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” presents a blatant and seemingly hopeless tone regarding the doom of unrepentant humanity. However, upon a closer and more intentional examination of this piece, its potential to establish within its audience a...
Poetry and Protest
Throughout her work, Amineh Abou Kerech demonstrates how poetry has helped young refugees suffering from diaspora persevere through both a critical point of their childhood development and a geopolitical struggle, while simultaneously bringing awareness to a war whose...
It’s Time to Start Reading Fairy Tales Again: Applying The Chronicles of Narnia to the Tangible World
“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result, you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But someday you will be old enough to start...
Buddhism Through a Christian Lense
“And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation” (The Holy Bible Mark 16.15). The noble call for Christians to spread the good news of the Gospel has been around for decades; however, not many people know how to successfully...
Curiosity
the passion-filled search for knowledge
Integrity
the ethical and virtuous desire to maintain honest presentations of research and individuality
Connection
pursuing community as we continue to grow in understanding the world around us