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Rooted
Nov 26, 2017 | By Sarah Geach PM ’20
If you were a tree, you would understand. If you were a tree, you would know what it is like to have roots. You would know what it is like to have a trunk. You would also know what it is like to have branches. And leaves. And fruit. As someone coming from somewhere extremely different, extremely strange, and extremely foreign, I have a vague idea of what it is like to be a tree.
Shorelines
Feb 25, 2017 | By Christian Olivier TC '20
Stuttering. According to the National Stuttering Association (Yes, it exists.), it is “what happens when you have too much tension in the muscles that help you produce speech or when those parts of your body involved in talking don’t work together.” As is the brain of a stutterer, there is no anatomical harmony. One camp is moving much faster than the others. For me, that was my brain. My speech pathologist said my thoughts were going faster than my mouth could keep up. It was a twisted form of the Tortoise and the Hare, except slow and steady was not winning the race.
The Subtlety of Glory
Dec 5, 2012 | Rodney Evans PC ‘14
The first element: a window. It is dark. The faint scent of cold coffee belonging to the elderly lady beside me hangs in the air. My legs are stiff and restless. I listen to the roaring hum of the plane that propels me comfortably through the air at about 570 mph.
Silence and Sound: A Thought
Feb 13, 2013 | Valentina Guerrero PC ’19. Adapted from a YFA Christmas Devotional
How silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear His coming,
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive him still,
The dear Christ enters in
Peace, Which Transcends All Understanding, Including a Yalie's
Oct 24, 2012 | By April Koh TD ‘14
We hear it a lot in the Christian community: "Lord, give us Your peace, which transcends all understanding."
It's almost become cliché -- like, whenever we say "peace," we have to tack on that verse from Philippians 4:7: "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
But what on earth does "transcend[ing] all understanding" entail? What does that peace even look like?
Decompression: Thoughts on Homesickness
Dec 3, 2016 | By Pedro Enamorado '17
“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.” Isaiah 43:2 (KJV)
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We will be looking at the Yale Divinity School’s missionary collection, specifically focusing on letters from international ecumenical movements from America to China. We will be looking at how these relate to our theme of freidnship in a more nuanced way. We will be walking up from cross-campus at 8:30 am, but you can also meet at the YDS gates at 9 am.
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William Blake Private Exhibition Tour
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