A new buzzword has entered the lives of college students: self-care. Essentially, self-care is prioritizing your own wellbeing, physically, mentally and emotionally. It means taking the time to care for yourself amid a busy schedule.  From Instagram advertisements to TikToks, the self-care movement...

I have never had any single message pushed upon me more than self-love has been preached to me throughout my time at college. It seems I cannot go a full day without someone or something telling me to love myself or to value self-care. We see it constantly in popular culture. Whether it stems from Hailee...

“We are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness,” said Torrey Conference speaker and Reality LA lead pastor Jeremy Treat. He quoted these words from former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murphy to begin his talk about the incarnation of the Spirit in our lives.  The conversation about the effects...

Where is the line between self-improvement and self-acceptance? This is a tension I see played out often, especially in Christian circles. Christians often feel the call to be glad in the perfect creation God made them to be, but there is also an equally insistent reminder of our own brokenness and need...

There are two sides to every coin—unless you are one of those cheap-trick magicians who fuse the same side of two coins together. Of course, the imagery does not always apply to a coin. For Dr. Seuss, the battle was between butter-side up and butter-side down. For Batman in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman...

In Dr. Clay Jones’ writing class for Talbot, he suggests that one of the best ways to improve your writing is to read your favorite writers and learn from their craft. Here are writing tips from the most widely read authors. 1. Ray Bradbury on Practice Bradbury, the acclaimed author of Fahrenheit...

Whenever we are presented with a challenging idea, we must choose how we respond. In other words, we must understand how we disagree. Beginning in antiquity and progressing to the classical era, courage has been thought of as a virtue—and it should be. C.S. Lewis describes courage as the virtue necessary...