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A Good Samaritan Is Radically Present
BY TIM KOWALCZYK There’s No Duke but Us I’ve written elsewhere on our habit of abdicating responsibility for the problems in our community. In brief, we’re only too happy to complain about Duke’s problems—peer pressure, work-hard play-hard, social expectations—but shrink from doing anything to fix them. They are “Duke’s” problems, or “collective” problems. In a…
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On the Origin of Controversy: Religion and Science
BY ABBY FRANKLIN All the Controversy When Ken Ham and Bill Nye debated creationism in 2014, both religious and non-religious people watched eagerly. Some were on the edge of their seats, waiting for their favorite debater to crush the other. Others bit their nails in horror, afraid that everything they stood for would be misrepresented.…
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My Racist, Sinful Heart
Why white denialism of systemic racism dishonors Christ BY BRIAN GRASSO Nearly all of my close friends in high school were white, and at times, it was possible to count the total number of black students at my school on two hands. My high school had about 2,500 students. The conspicuous absence of black students…
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God, Why? Thoughts on Suffering After Hurricane Florence
BY ANNA NORTHUP Hurricane Florence’s devastating rip through the Carolinas has only sliced open the wound humanity has nursed for millennia: “Why?” We don’t talk about it often, at least not in a public context. Behind doors, maybe, with family or doctors or clinicians. These things just happen. Everyone suffers. Next, please. We find support groups,…
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The Fastest Growing Criminal Industry: What the Church Needs to Know
BY KRISTI GAMBUTI “Abolish Slavery Everywhere, Forever.” These are the words that pulsed from the wall each day I walked into the A21 office this summer. These four words, big and bold, were the very first thing I saw entering the room and the last thing I saw exiting it. The more days I spent…
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Strength in Weakness
BY SARAH PROCTOR When spring break rolled around it came as a sigh of relief after the breakneck pace of life at Duke. I was going to the beach with some of my closest friends. I resolved not to bring anything that resembled schoolwork. I was going to actually get a decent amount of sleep.…
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You Are Not in Control
BY JUAN LASSO VELASCO The power to overcome all obstacles through fortitude and determination. The ability to lead your life and forge your destiny by the strength of human willpower. These are qualities that people of our time value and seek with pride, and they are the tenets that my father held onto during his…
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Ambition
BY SAGE GARCIA Ambition. Control. Power. Prestige. Self-worth. These are the things that I so often grasp onto, or rather, try to grasp onto. It is my deeply held belief that all Duke students can be characterized by the trait of ambition. Ambition is a unique character trait, precisely because of its ability to act…
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Between Family and God
BY ANNA SAVELYEVA “Good Christians are supposed to love their family no matter what, aren’t they?” After a tough few days of fighting with my parents and exhaustively talking through my feelings with my friends, one of my friends suddenly asked this question. To be honest,
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Remembering God is God
BY SARAH PROCTOR As a small child I spent most of my time trying to wrap my head around things that were bigger than me. Most of my questions––how do massive metal ships not sink? Where do ocean waves start? Why don’t suspension bridges snap? ––were answered as I grew up and took more science…
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