I’m sorry, Mr. Kratzer, but I just don’t follow
About a week ago I came across Chris Kratzer’s article, “I’m Sorry Conservative Christianity, But I Just Can’t Do It Anymore.” Mr. Krazter seeks to...
Making Heaven on Earth: Harvard Commencement
This post is going to be about a particular topic I’ve spent a great deal of time pondering lately, but it is also about a...
Evolution, Sexual Ethics, and Bananas
While scrolling through the internet, I came across an article answering a question I’d never asked before: namely, why didn’t we evolve to produce asexually,...
Harvard Surveys: Am I “Very Religious”?
My college career was replete with surveys; there were university surveys, dorm surveys, dining hall surveys, Navy surveys, and so on and so forth, not...
Is Protestantism Irreverent?
This year, I went to the Good Friday services at Hope Fellowship Church here in Cambridge. The church is Baptist, but lately, they’ve begun to...
“Whatever you believe, that’s what’s true”
A few days ago, I had a long conversation with my Uber driver on philosophy and religion. As we pulled up to my dorm, he...
Where Pain Points
Last week, there was a bus accident in New Braunfels that killed thirteen people, senior adults at First Baptist New Braunfels, which has many ties...
Selfless – or Selfish? How we mix them up.
This is an expansion of my last blog post and is best read in tandem with it, so I’d encourage you to check that out...
The Humble Brag and Humility
There’s a running joke that if you ask someone where they go to college, and they say “in Boston,” they go to Harvard or MIT,...
A World Without Thunder
On Thunderstorms Thunderstorms are one of my favorite things; my parents think I’m crazy, but I just stand outside and sing while the rain comes...