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2013-06-11T10:50:56-04:00

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Literature and the Moral Life

Last updated on: June 11, 2013 at 10:50 am By Emily DeBaun

During a class discussion in college, I recall one of my English professors off-handedly commenting, “Well, we study literature to become better people, right?” The question struck me as odd then, as it does now. Certainly reading classic works can improve a reader’s analytical skills; perhaps it also aids intellectual and personal development. But that doesn’t mean it always makes us more moral. I was a physics major in college, and this point seemed clear-cut to me at the time.... Read more

2013-06-06T10:44:13-04:00

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Doubting the Value of Doubt

Last updated on: June 6, 2013 at 10:44 am By Jake Meador

Writing about John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Samuel Taylor Coleridge said, “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.” It’s a fascinating comment about a book whose wisdom we are in danger of forgetting as millennial Christians. To take only one example, consider Bunyan’s discussion of doubt and despair found a little past the book’s halfway mark. In the scene, Christian and Hopeful have been taken captive by the Giant Despair and locked... Read more

2013-06-04T11:36:13-04:00

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On Gratitude and the Essayification of Life

Last updated on: June 4, 2013 at 11:36 am By Sarah Ngu

“Tabbing” is what I call my daily practice of scrolling through emails, Facebook, and Twitter, clickling on any interesting links that pop out. It usually ends with an intimidating row of nearly twenty tabs of articles that I generally avoid but occasionally binge-read, plowing through multiple articles at once. The few articles that get me thinking I send off to friends via email or Facebook with a sentence or two of my thoughts. There is nothing inherently wrong with “tabbing.”... Read more

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2013-06-01T10:48:59-04:00

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The Bonobo and The Creator

Last updated on: June 1, 2013 at 10:48 am By Jordan Monge

Biologist Frans de Waal is convinced we’ve gotten it all wrong: morality does not come down from on high but rather emerges from the bottom up. In his new book, The Bonobo and the Atheist, he reveals findings from his careful study of primates that suggest they exhibit traits such as empathy and compassion, behaving ethically in ways that resemble human behavior. He proposes that morality is a natural product of evolution and that religion emerged as a later useful by-product.... Read more

2013-05-31T08:41:58-04:00

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Longing, Communion, and the Great Gatsby

Last updated on: May 31, 2013 at 8:41 am By Margaret Blume

Like most of us, I read The Great Gatsby in high school, and although I forgot most of the plot, I remember the elusive feelings that the book evoked, and liking them. I was surprised, then, when the movie mesmerized me, but also left me feeling kind of sick. I can see the source of the film (and book’s) attraction. The green light perpetually burning on Daisy’s dock is a powerful sign of human desire, reaching, perpetually reaching – for... Read more

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2025-09-08T12:33:07-04:00

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On the Use of Arguments in Theology

Last updated on: September 8, 2025 at 12:33 pm By Guest Contributor

I am currently working through Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, commenting on one article each day. Given the large interest among the Fare Forward community in the role of reason and argument in the exposition and defense of the faith, I thought a careful discussion of Aquinas’s thoughts on this matter would be well received here. So below is my discussion of Question 1, Article 8 of the first part of the Summa: Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Matter of Argument. (The English text... Read more

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2013-05-28T09:30:39-04:00

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Art and The Mysterious Beyond

Last updated on: May 28, 2013 at 9:30 am By Emily DeBaun

A couple of posts over at “Good Letters” have thoughtfully addressed art’s purpose and how it interacts with and reflects a greater reality. In the first of these pieces, Vic Sizemore responds to a recent article by Michael Chabon in the New York Review of Books. Chabon argues that the artist’s function is addressing brokenness in the world by putting back together the “‘scattered pieces of that great overturned jigsaw puzzle’ according to [the artist’s] own vision.” A creative work “is... Read more

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2013-05-22T10:16:19-04:00

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The Final Judgment and the Burial of the Boston Bomber

Last updated on: May 22, 2013 at 10:16 am By Justin Hawkins

After plenty of heated discussion, one half of the alleged Boston bombing pair was buried in a Muslim cemetery in VA last week. The discussion that preceded that burial all centered on the visceral opposition all the local cemeteries displayed toward even the suggestion of burying him. Family and friends of those interred in various cemeteries across New England considered it an affront to the memory of their late loved ones for an alleged terrorist to be buried alongside them.... Read more

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2013-05-21T11:17:51-04:00

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Worldliness and Anxiety

Last updated on: May 21, 2013 at 11:17 am By Andrew Schuman

Walking across Dartmouth’s campus recently I overheard one student say to another: “Hey – you should come to Gammapalooza at Chi Gam tonight, everyone’ll be there…” and then somewhat compassionately added, “but don’t worry if you can’t…. no FOMO!” If you don’t know what this acronym stands for, I’m sorry to say, you’re missing out. It’s one of the most useful acronyms to be added to the online urban dictionary in the last five years. FOMO = “fear of missing... Read more

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2013-05-16T10:42:46-04:00

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Why I’m Not Going to Talk About “Culture” Anymore (or Bill O’Reilly and the Guinness Shamrock)

Last updated on: May 16, 2013 at 10:42 am By Charles Clark

Bill O’Reilly, primetime gladiator, walks into a bar. Specifically, it’s an Irish pub. Bill is traveling, covering immigration in El Paso, Texas, and he’s thirsty. He pulls up a stool at the bar, orders a Guinness. The bartender pours it and hands it over. “You’re a patriot,” says Bill. Bill picks up the chilled glass (made in Mexico). He sees that in the beer’s luxuriant head, the bartender has drawn a frothy shamrock. He tips the glass back, then replaces... Read more

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