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The Birth of Self
May 1, 2025 | By Emma Ventresca BF ‘26
Transformation is a “coming into” ourselves, a metamorphosis rather than discrete change that fundamentally alters who we are. In the words of philosopher and theologian Karl Rahner, “True 'becoming' must be conceived as something 'becoming more', as the coming into being of more reality, as an effective attainment of a greater fullness of being.” What it means to ‘become’ oneself “must be understood as a real self-transcendence, a surpassing of self or active filling up of the empty.”
The Rise and Fall of King Saul
March 15, 2025 | By Jack Batten BF ‘27
There’s something in the human heart that demands a king. We want someone upon whom we can gaze with admiration and respect, even awe. This is why so many nations have kept their monarchies alive in a non-governing role—we crave the crown. In Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the nation Gondor has been a shadow of its former self since its kingly line vanished, its place held by lesser stewards.
A Secular Saint
March 22, 2025 | By Raleigh Adams YDS ‘26
Captain Hampton did not know what her final moments would be, but she knew the risks of her service. Taking up the cross of active combat came with the risk of death and joining her sacrifice to that of Christ’s passion and resurrection upon the Cross. We do not know our time or place to join Christ's suffering, or our final end, but our souls yearn for this kind of sacrifice
Be With Me Lord, When I Am in Trouble
March 9, 2025 | By Isaac Oberman DC ‘26
But like a flower, growth isn’t easy. Like a gentle flowering bud, we are fragile as we start to bloom. The refrain for today’s Psalm, “Be with me Lord, when I am in trouble,” is not just a repetitive mantra. It is a nurturing lifeline during this Lenten Season. Calling on the Lord is a cry for protection and help for our continued growth.
On Losers
March 29, 2025 | By Sharla Moody BK ‘22, YDS ‘25
It’s easy—perhaps even unconscious—to imagine everyone existing in a shifting hierarchy one constantly strives to wind up on top of. Even if I genuinely want to resist the winners-losers mindset, I find myself in constant comparison with others, tallying the score of a game that I say doesn’t matter but in fact does matter in some way to me. The cardinal sin of the winners-losers binary is that it accepts the terms of the game without question.
The Speed of Love
December 10, 2024 | By Jack Batten BF ‘27
In his 1979 book The Three Mile an Hour God, Japanese theologian Kosuke Koyama notes the fact that Jesus Christ walked at three miles per hour during His time on earth. Jesus never set foot in an airplane, car, or motorboat; He never even rode a horse or chariot. The fastest He traveled was in a creaking rowboat or on a shambling donkey. For the vast majority of His life, Jesus walked. And like all humans, Jesus averaged three miles per hour. Even for His time, Jesus seems to have been a slow and meandering walker. Jesus is never in a rush. Jesus walks at three miles an hour, and He never hesitates to stop along the way. He takes His time.
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