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Coronavirus-Related Suicides and Christian Hope
JACK MYHRE BY GABBI ZEGERS After hearing the news, I texted my friend to see how she was doing. Maybe it was also because she had opted to stay at Duke, while most students had left. I at least had my family around me. She lived by herself, with her family on the other side…
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Labyrinth of Life
JACK MYHRE BY ANDREW FORRESTER How did we get here? Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; [1] My life isn’t what I thought it…
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And who is my neighbor?
JACK MYHRE BY ANDREW FORRESTER There are a lot of things I’ll miss next year: big things—like the weekendretreat I usually enjoy with some of my closest friends at the start of the fallor cramming into a packed lecture hall for a physics colloquium—but alsothe little things—catching up with an old friend over lunch or…
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Death is Dead
JACK MYHRE BY ANDREW RAINES “We brought nothin’ into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothin’ out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessèd be the Name of the Lord” (I Tim. 6:7; Job 1:21). So the words of Paul and Job rang out clear in rural South Carolinian…
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The Cross and Racial Justice
BY CHRIS KUO ON BEHALF OF THE CRUX EDITORIAL STAFF “There comes a time when silence is betrayal,” Martin Luther King, Jr. once said. As the editorial team for Crux, we believe that this is one of those times—a time to speak out for justice on behalf of the oppressed. We mourn the recent deaths…
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Life and Death, Works and Faith
JACK MYHRE BY GABBI ZEGERS A Dilemma of Life and Death In a world where death seems to come silently, easily, and with certainty, it becomes imperative to discuss life. Even though a highly-infectious pandemic will bring the issue of death, and consequently life, front-and-center for many, there is only one thing humans have always…
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Habakkuk’s Prayer
BY DOROTHY AMANKWAH I imagine when Habakkuk prayed, His hands were clenched Eyes shut tight Knees scraped From kneeling too long on the floor Tears welled up and streamed down to the river of mercy Where he cried “O Lord, How long shall I cry for help and you will not hear?” To be…
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Guest post: COVID-19, Narnia, and Death
Pausing in a pandemic to ask the big questions of life BY BRIAN GRASSO This is a guest post from Brian Grasso, Duke ’19. Originally posted on his personal blog here. With some time to kill at home, I am finding that now is a good opportunity to read fiction. So, this past week, I…
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Searching for peace in an anxious generation
BY CHRIS KUO When anxiety hit me recently, I never saw it coming. It was last weekend, around noon on a cloudy Saturday. I sat at the back of an empty classroom on the second floor above Marketplace, our freshman dining hall. Sunlight seeped through the window next to me, carving out shadows on the…
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How a Christian Knows God
BY JORDAN HEPBURN Whether a Christian, agnostic, or atheist, one has probably heard in Christian circles “The Bible is God’s word.” This phrase means that Christians believe the Bible to be one of God’s revelations to mankind, i.e. it is one of the ways in which God reveals himself to humans so that we can…
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