An Unorthodox Approach to God
During my Creative Writing class we read an excerpt from Nadia Bolz-Weber‘s Pastrix, in which she discusses her experiences of realizing that she was an alcoholic and eventually coming to the […]
Snail vs. Hedgehog
As Paul Muldoon was supposed to speak at the Lenoir Rhyne Visiting Writer’s Series last week, (but was unable to make the trip due to inclement weather) my creative writing […]
Voice in Katherine Howe’s “Conversion”
In the prelude to Katherine Howe’s novel Conversion,which my classmates and I read in preparation for her speaking at the Lenoir-Rhyne Visiting Writers Series, the one thing i noticed quickly was […]
“Salvage the Bones”
In Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, she is telling the story of her dog, named China, who is giving birth. She compares the dog giving birth to her mother. She says that […]
Declining By Degrees
In the film Declining By Degrees, it portrays and asks a signifigant quesiton…. What happens with a student between admission and graduation from college. The first half of the film […]
Faith Alone That Justifies
In John Piper‘s book “Think”, he states, “Saving faith is a receiving of Christ for who he really is, namely, more glorious, more wonderful, more satisfying, and, therefore more valuable than […]
Warning against forgetting the power of the cross
“Your approval …
“Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.” – Matt Chandler
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