As college students who regularly study the Bible in-depth, students forget that Jesus chose ordinary people to share his message of repentance, forgiveness and grace. While it is tempting to turn to Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology and indulge in a myriad of theological tenets, students can better...

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...

Sitting across from graduate student Anna Vollema, and seeing her kind smile, dirty-blonde dreadlocks and red plaid shirt tucked into overalls, one would never guess what is going on underneath her skin. Anna’s kidneys are slowly deteriorating. She is not just defined by her health problems —she...

Bigot. Communist. Homophobe. Tree-hugger. Fascist. Intolerant. Socialist. Racist. We like labels. They are easy, convenient and tidy. They wrap up the complexities of diverging viewpoints and package them in a nice, neat little box that we can categorize and dismiss. They are simple, and we love...

We all remember the Duggars: a family who had represented the extremely conservative qualities of the Christian faith until May of 2002. The eldest Duggar child, Josh, then began to come forward with multiple confessions of sexually assaulting victims—including his younger sisters—to his parents. Below...