Duke Crux

JACK MYHRE BY NOAH BREUSS-BURGESS At Duke, I have come to really value questions and their wonderful ability to open up worlds previously unknown. In the flurry and weariness of Duke life, I have found that a good question can break through the easy monotony of our social interactions and lead us to a new…

JACK MYHRE BY MATIAS SUR The holidays start with Thanksgiving, so let’s begin there. Here’s how Thanksgiving Day looks to me: We eat the delicious turkey, sides, and stuffing that accompanies one of the year’s most extraordinary meals. Then, people play board games with their families, spend time watching football or the National Dog Show…

JACK MYHRE BY MORGAN PATTON Evangelism is terrifying.  That´s a bit of an un-Christian thing of me to say, I suppose. But throughout the years of me believing in God, evangelism has been a constant thorn in my side, a thing that I’ve buried in a little box in the back of my brain. If…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…