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Pulled From the Law: Encountering Christ in the Flesh
Nov. 30, 2020 | By Justin Ferrugia TD ‘23+1
Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to [the] poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” (Matt. 19:21)
I want to pose a thought experiment. Suppose you are a devout Jew in the time of Jesus. You faithfully and rigidly adhere to Jewish law. You keep the Sabbath and adhere to the Levitical laws of food, drink, and sacrifice. You are rightly and completely devoted to these laws, just as many of us are devoted to the doctrinal tenets of our faiths.
An Eternal Home
Nov 23, 2020 | By Ashley Talton BR ‘23
Over the past two years, I have lived in three different places. I’m never really sure which to call my home anymore. One of them is the tiny town I grew up in, that I spent fifteen years in, and since March, I’ve been here again. Another is Durham, North Carolina, the city I lived in for my junior and senior years of high school as I attended the residential school, the North Carolina School of Science and Math. I loved living in Durham, and in those two short years, it became my home.
Buckets of Grace
Nov. 15, 2020 | By Ally Eidemueller BK ‘22
At the beginning of the semester, my basement was my least favorite place on campus. Before opening the door from the lobby and taking the plunge down the narrow staircase, I would utter a quick prayer for God to bless my journey through the basement and out the back door. The red stains ingrained in the cement floor and half painted sheds with missing wooden beams that could double as cells seem almost a world apart from God.
God’s Suffering
Nov. 8th, 2020 | Se Ri Lee MC ‘23+1
In my previous encounters with this verse from Isaiah 53, my thoughts had always dwelled on the word “suffer,” then shifted to pondering God’s inexplicable reason for allowing suffering a place in the world. This time, as I read over it, my eyes rested on the “him.” It suddenly occurred to me that God put Himself through suffering. It was God’s will for His Son Jesus (i.e. God Himself [1]) to suffer perhaps the greatest suffering of all time: death through torture, crucifixion on the cross.
Love at a Distance. Feast From Afar.
Oct 27, 2020 | By Daniel Chabeda ES ‘22
I ordered myself food through UberEats for the first time on Monday, October 19, 2020, six years after the service launched, two years after moving to college, and 18 months after I downloaded the app. I thought about why it took me so long to utilize the convenient and popular food delivery service. The app is thoroughly-vetted, the deals are great, and I am generally a homebody who enjoys keeping cozy in my room: UberEats should have been my jam! I rarely eat out (homebody) and spend money infrequently, but despite these sensible explanations, I ultimately realized that it was not a dispositional or financial quality that held me back. My reticence was based in a deep-rooted social and spiritual conception that meals exist for community.
Take Off Your Shoes
Oct 21, 2020 | By Jadan Anderson MC ‘22
God makes strange first impressions. When God introduced himself to Moses, He decided to do so as a bush that was on fire. What’s more, the first thing God said to Moses wasn’t “hello” or “I am God,” but “take off your sandals.”
When I hear the term “holy ground” I think about the Catholic churches of my childhood. I was taught that people should greet God with their very best, especially in His own space. For that reason, I showered before every Mass, donned my finest clothes, and put on my designated, closed-toed church shoes. It seemed that everyone at Mass did the same. Though I enjoyed dressing up on Sundays, the older I grew the more I perceived an element of hiddenness under all the garb. By the time I was a teenager, I thought those fancy clothes were something of a separation between us and our holy God, or at least symbolized a need to be more or be better in order to approach God. But I kept dressing up because, if I ever arrived at church barefoot, my grandparents would rain fire upon my mom and dad.
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