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Stepping Outside (Spiritual Comfort Zones)
April 2, 2016 | Valentina Guerrero PC '19
"Disrupting my comfort zone, bombarding myself with challenging people and situations — this is the best way I know to keep growing. And to paraphrase a biologist I once met, if you're not growing, you're dying."
- Brian Grazer, Disrupting My Comfort Zone
Thanos and Theodicy: Why don’t we just fix the world? (Part 1)
Feb 22, 2019 | By Bradley Yam SY '21
Imagine that you are given a glove that granted you magical god-like powers over all of human life everywhere. You would only need to snap your fingers, and it would in some way make the world perfect. It would be whatever version of perfect you choose. Minmax human suffering and happiness? Done. Eradicate systemic oppression and inequality? Done. Eliminate scarcity of everything, everywhere? Done!
The Nature of Justice: Writers' Forum
Feb 8, 2016 | Pedro Alonso Enamorado ‘17
Logos journal hosted an event on Friday, February 5th to encourage conversation about the nature of justice. A group of Yalies came together around a table to tackle the difficulties in writing about justice. They began by trying to answer the question: what is justice? They looked at some of the unspoken givens understood when discussing justice, such as the idea of equity. There must be a balance of some kind, whether in interpersonal relations, commerce or God-man relations. Consequentially, participants agreed that justice describes conditions between two or more entities.
Living in Parable: A Thought
Feb 22, 2016 | Valentina Guerrero PC' 19
"I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter what has been hidden since
the foundation of the world." (Matthew 13:35)
The Fourth Scar
April 1, 2017 | By Nancy Walecki '20
I have a scar. When I look in the mirror in the right light, it takes the form of a neat, diagonal, pen stroke across the very top of my forehead, from the furrow in my brow to where it disappears into the hair above my temple. But when I only touch it and do not see it, it becomes a mountain range, filled with uneven peaks and valleys and jagged detours of knotted, sturdy flesh. If I tap my fingers lightly, I can feel the bone beneath that I saw once, before the mountain range converged and hid my inner-workings from me again. I remember it contrasted beautifully with the red—alabaster discovered during an excavation for rubies.
Logos Reviews: Eden Reimagined in First Cow
July 28, 2020 | by Sharla Moody BK ‘22. Sharla is majoring in English
NOTE: Spoilers ahead
Kelly Reichardt’s minimalist film First Cow[1] premiered in August of 2019 at Telluride and enjoyed an extremely limited release in March this year before it was pulled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, it was made available for rental on digital, and I was able to enjoy what has been hailed as one of the best movies of the year.[2] Slow and friendly, the film concerns the adventures of Cookie, a trapper and cook in the Oregon Territory in the 1820s, and his new companion, King-Lu, a Chinese immigrant with a fuzzy history and fuzzier intentions.
Upcoming Events:
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Working Meeting
THURSDAY, APRIL 2ND, 6:15-7:50 PM
This week, we will work on writing and editing our drafts in community.
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Writing Retreat
SATURDAY, APRIL 4TH
We will be adjourning to Mystic to spend a day dedicated to making progress on our drafts.
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Final Draft Meeting at Elm
THURSDAY, APRIL 9th, 6:15-7:50 PM
Elm Institute
We will be polishing our pieces for the print edition.
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Final Draft Submission
THURSDAY, APRIL 16th, 6:15-7:15 PM
We will be polishing our pieces for the print edition.
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Publication Party
THURSDAY, APRIL 28TH
Come celebrate our Spring 2026 print edition: Mirrors!