The Gate Deemed Unfit Venue for Student Art Display: Allegedly Pro-life Art Gets the Boot

October 31, 2008

Last year, a number of Brown’s eating establishments invited students to put their original art on the walls. Since then, the walls have slowly become smattered with the good, the bad, the ugly, and the sometimes funny art of Brown University students.
On one of the walls at the Gate there is a compelling mural that [...]

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Truth

October 31, 2008

As thinking people, we ought to approach all things with questioning minds. The pursuit of truth is one of the most important responsibilities charged to those of us who are capable and interested in discovering what is true. While Christianity is a rich and rational belief rooted in nearly 2,000 years of history, there is [...]

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The Squeeze

October 31, 2008

Some(-thing/-one) is winding me tightly around a steel pole,
wringing my insides and all my desires out into a glass bowl.
It’s crystal clear under the sun and in the bowl; that’s who I am inside;
A man, defined by what he wants and what he wants to be.
Lust. I only want to be free, and to dwell [...]

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Fear

October 31, 2008

Eyelashes
whimper
as she tears them
from their roots.
The agony
soaking the room
is obvious
and nobody
turns away from the blood.
They all simply stare,
immovable and
stubbornly selfish.
She sinks into
the balmy earth,
damp with bodily fluids,
and disappears.

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Faith

October 31, 2008

Disclaimer: Of course, this is by no means a sufficient survey of a tradition that spans more than two thousand years; and I, being only a student, humbly present this blurb as an impressionist portrayal of the glimpses I have seen since my infancy. I suspect that something like this has already been written, the [...]

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A Pilgrimage into the Real World

October 31, 2008

The sky was already pitch black when the driver told us to get off. “End of the line,” he said. “There’s not really much left past here, so we don’t continue.”
My companion Gian Pablo and I plunged into the cold of a southern winter’s night. Our conversation turned from logistics to life, and then to [...]

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Why?

October 31, 2008

Why do I believe what I believe? Everyone capable of asking themselves this question must confront the unsettling reality that they already believe something. We hold hundreds, maybe even thousands, of basic beliefs that we’ve accepted without laboriously and consciously questioning their validity. Before we can ask ourselves what the proper foundation for belief is–whether [...]

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I See

October 31, 2008

I see the stars. I feel the
moonlight gracing my cheekbone.
I taste the clouds in my
soul. I hear the shimmering
and shining. I inhale the cool,
sweet air.
It is dark – all around – but I
see the stars. I know the
stars – the lights in our darkness.
Their existence never ceases.
The stars radiate endlessly –
to all hearts and eyes [...]

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The Bible in 30 Lines

October 30, 2008

I would have loved you,
Had you let me
But you tie my hands behind me,
And call furtive from the dark
That you really daren’t harken
to the voice of One
Such as myself.
You assume I’ve no heart in me
Because my hands move galaxies.
You take me simple: for a human,
Charge me greatly: for a demon.
I am
Neither: If you knew me,
You [...]

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Reading Period Procrastination

May 1, 2008

All I wanted to do was take a 5-minute break from reading about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I ended up with an serendipitously fruitful half-hour emerging from the WWW with choice links:

A seminary student argues why Dumbledore being gay is actually a good thing for Christians.
A site that exhorts Christians to flirt to convert, providing such resources [...]

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