Is Christianity a fairytale? Can we take seriously stories involving a roving miracle worker who died and came back from the dead? At first glance, Jesus may seem mythical, but we must not rest with our first glance. Some seem…
The Force. It’s a spiritual substance that permeates the entire galaxy. The Jedi can control it if they train their minds to that effect. But what is it? If you recall a scene in the recent Star Wars: the Last…
Last year was riddled with sex scandal after sex scandal. Movements like #metoo are shedding light on sexual misconduct. As people are discussing how to prevent misconduct, the exposure has led the media to reopen a long time rule known…
There is a rampant movement afoot today on many college campuses to sensitize the public through safe spaces and trigger warnings. A trigger warning is a warning beforehand that content is potentially traumatic or offensive. An example would be a…
Excitement was high as Marvel began to kick off its expanded universe with the original Thor movie back in 2011. And who can blame us with names like Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, and the undeniably talented Anthony Hopkins behind the…
It’s been less than 24 hours and somehow I have managed to watch all of season 2 of Stranger Things. While I’m no foreigner to the Netflix phenomena of binge-watching a TV series, I typically don’t power through shows the…
Conservative Christians, perhaps more than any other group, have been pinned as the quintessential intolerant, bigoted, anti-progressive people of our world. They, in the eye of the public, are constantly resisting political progress by going against the popular views of…
Islam was founded in the seventh century by Muhammad. Orphaned at a young age, Muhammad was raised by his uncle in Mecca, located in the Arabian Peninsula. At the time, the Arabian Peninsula served as thoroughfare for commerce, causing cross-cultural…
“Mr. Dimmesdale would perhaps have seen this individual’s character more perfectly, if a certain morbidness, to which sick hearts are liable, had not rendered him suspicious of all mankind. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his…
Quite often I hear something like this, “Weren’t certain books of the Bible added and subtracted during the reign of Constantine?” The implication is that there may be some other gospels, or accounts of the life of Jesus, that are…