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Liturgies of Healing
May 27, 2022 | Maria Copeland, JMU ‘22
What chronic illness and an extraordinary case study taught me about physical healing and spiritual formation.
God’s Reconciliation
March 27, 2022 | By Sarah Newbury HLS
“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.” Corinthians 5:18-19 NRSV
How Firm a Foundation: Pandemic Science Tests The Limits of Our trust
January 20, 2022 | By Raquel Sequeira TD ‘21.5
“I’ve never felt as dependent as I am today on shaky data to make what could be life or death decisions.” I was struck reading the words of Dr. Neel Shah, an obstetrician describing what it’s like to care for pregnant patients in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. [1] As I watch the world through my internet browser, scientific facts seem to flip-flop like pundits. A graph of biotech stocks, responding to daily progress reports from the companies racing to produce a vaccine, might as well be tracking the sentiments of Facebook users as each new pandemic model urges hope or despair.
Searching for the Right Shade of Green
December 31, 2021 | By Ben Colón-Emeric TD ‘22
Everywhere along the paths of Trail Wood wildness seems near at hand. But nowhere else do we feel so remote from the world as here beside this woodland brook as it traces its serpentine course among the mosses and ferns and trees. So wild does this setting seem that one August day I even brought along an aluminum pie tin and at the little gravel bar above the ford panned for gold.
– Edwin Way Teale, “A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm”
Broken Bridges of a Beautiful World
Sept 14, 2020 | By Daniel Chabeda ES ‘22
The natural world is beautiful. On a grand scale, the mountains arch toward the sky in their millennia-long and mile-high morning stretch. On the smallest scale, quantum theory invites us into a nanoscopic world where particles can teleport (quantum teleportation), exist in multiple places at once (quantum superposition), and physically pass through other objects (quantum tunneling). The most powerful microscopes in existence today, Scanning Tunneling Microscopes, are able to clearly resolve individual atoms to show us that even the quantum world is visually stunning.
The Will Supreme
By Tommy Schacht, PC ‘21. Tommy is majoring in History.
There is a specter that haunts the globe; a spirit which infects the hearts and minds of billions around the world, informing and guiding their actions on a daily basis. This specter goes by many names, but there is one which I like to call it: optimism.
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