The year is 1741. Summer has come and gone, a season of sleepless nights, fasting, and soul-emptying composing for a certain 56-year old English musician. The night is September 14th, and Georg Frederic Handel drops his head in utter exhaustion, tears streaming down his face. His servant enters the room carrying the plate of food […]
God’s Heart for Individuals with Disabilities
I want to tell you a little story of the beautiful impact that we can have on other people. I vividly remember standing at this past year’s graduation for Next Steps, Vanderbilt’s college program for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Tears streamed down my face as the five graduates walked across the stage. I do not […]
Technology: Friend or Foe?
Technology is a word often synonymous in this day and age with progress, advancement, and innovation. For many in the previous century it became the symbol and beacon of hope through modernist philosophy, which emphasized progress through rationality and science as the ultimate goal and purpose of society. But in the postmodern era of today, […]
The Power of the Gospel: Experiences of Christian Slaves In the Antebellum South
There is no denying that America’s slaveholding past still weighs heavily on the nation’s conscience. About 388,000 Africans in total were abducted from their homes and subjected to the horrors of the Middle Passage before being sold into bondage in North America. Through natural increase, the number of enslaved persons in this country reached 3.9 […]
Chaos
There are two groups of people in this world: those who love mathematics and those who detest it. 4 out of 10 Americans1 fall into the latter category and cite difficulty, uselessness and lack of creativity in math, among other things, as reasons for their distaste. Many sentiments among this group are shared with Calvin: […]
What is the body?
She steps out of the shower, frigid. She stands in front of the fogged up mirror, slowly lifting a frail arm to wipe away the steam. She drops her towel, grabs her stomach and turns side to side, her hands touch protruding bone after bone, as finger meets rib with unsettling ease. Hot tears well […]