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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…

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…

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…

BY EMILY QIN The birth of mankind began with Adam, whom God created in His own image. Initially, the relationship between God and mankind, filled with love and trust, was perfect. After creating mankind, God proclaimed that “it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). God generously gave to mankind; He gave them plants in the Garden,…

Jack Myhre BY CHRIS KUO In the classic 1989 film Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, one scene depicts Jones teetering at the edge of a massive precipice—to cross to the other side, he has to step into the thin air and trust that an invisible bridge will appear.  “It’s a leap of faith,” Jones…

BY DOROTHY AMANKWAH To all who have wondered, Is God good? Have you not seen his tears? When He grieves for the world Beneath the skies. I have seen, When the snowflakes fall. Softly, the snow cries: Somewhere white soil is splattered with red blood The sound of gunshot echoes War after war The nations…

BY JORDAN HEPBURN Just recently, a man murdered fifty people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Men, women, and children simply minding their own business were ruthlessly murdered by a nihilistic, hateful human being. Instances like this show us that suffering can come upon us at any moment, either as a result of other…

BY DANIEL EGITTO “Truly, truly I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen” -John 3:11 Having been an agnostic from the minute I began to think for myself until my conversion to Christianity at 16, it confuses me sometimes how little religious people talk about…

BY ADAM ENGGASSER College can be an extremely stressful place. For many students, especially at Duke, it is. We’re worried about exams, papers, extracurriculars, graduate schools, careers, relationships, finding our identity, the list goes on and on… there is absolutely no shortage of contributing factors that can make the student life stressful, and I feel…

BY ANNA NORTHUP “Boys will be boys.” With that line, Gillette launched their latest advertisement – and a massive controversial ripple across the country. Some of the response has been supportive – yes, men do need to hold other men accountable, and yes, there’s a violence problem that is an overwhelmingly male issue. The stats…