Love Is a Dance
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Published 05/21/2012 at 12:00 am - No Comments Ever since I was a little girl I always imagined what falling in love would be like. Over time that image, that feeling, has changed, but it really hasn’t changed much in the last eight years or so. Since I ...
Why Richard Dawkins Is Wrong About Faith
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Published 05/21/2012 at 12:00 am - No Comments As spring semester is wrapping up here at Vanderbilt, I have taken to one of my favorite pastimes: watching Youtube debates on the existence of God. I am not sure exactly what it is that captivates me so much about ...
The Tree, the Tumbleweed, and the Dandelion
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Published 05/18/2012 at 12:00 am - No Comments Bear with me as I work this thought through. I was intrigued by someone’s metaphor today and thought I would elaborate on it a bit. The question that I pose to you the reader is this: are you a tree, a ...
Eucharistic Art
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Published 05/16/2012 at 12:00 am - One Comment Scattered across the Southern landscape are hundreds, if not thousands, of small (and not so small) churches. What strikes the non-Southerner as most odd is that they are all so alike with their bare brick walls and ...

Posted by Amanda Mortus on May 21, 2012 in Christian Living, Spiritual Reflections | 0 comments

Love Is a Dance

Ever since I was a little girl I always imagined what falling in love would be like. Over time that image, that feeling, has changed, but it really hasn’t changed much in the last eight years or so. Since I truly began to make the faith personal, God has written a beautiful image of what falling in love is like on my heart. It isn’t an image I usually share with anyone; it has always been mine and mine alone. But lately God has been reminding me of it a lot and I’ve been praying about...

Posted by PJ Jedlovec on May 21, 2012 in Apologetics | 0 comments

Why Richard Dawkins Is Wrong About Faith

As spring semester is wrapping up here at Vanderbilt, I have taken to one of my favorite pastimes: watching Youtube debates on the existence of God. I am not sure exactly what it is that captivates me so much about these debates, which usually include notorious atheists like Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, or Richard Dawkins. Perhaps it’s the biting yet entertaining tone with which British athiests like Dawkins and Hitchens speak. Perhaps it’s my long-standing love for debate. But, mostly, I think...

Posted by Mike Zimmerman on May 18, 2012 | 0 comments

The Tree, the Tumbleweed, ...

Bear with me as I work this thought through. I was intrigued by someone’s metaphor today and thought I would elaborate on it a bit. The question that I pose to you the reader is this: are you a tree, a tumbleweed, or a dandelion? Now, while many might be thinking about their answer already and seeing the attributes of each, I ask you to hold off. You see, each of these is a metaphor for the way we...

Posted by Alejandro Teran-Somohano on May 16, 2012 | 1 comment

Eucharistic Art

Scattered across the Southern landscape are hundreds, if not thousands, of small (and not so small) churches. What strikes the non-Southerner as most odd is that they are all so alike with their bare brick walls and white roofs and cross-less steeples. It is as if they had been mass-produced, as if there were a church factory where these were manufactured in an assembly line and numbered before being...

Posted by Nathan Edwards on May 13, 2012 | 0 comments

A Catholic’s Respons...

It seems that the new frontier of civil rights in this generation is “gay rights” and more and more people are jumping on the bandwagon including, recently, President Obama. The pinnacle issue in this campaign is “gay marriage,” to use a colloquial phrase. In the media, both secular and Catholic, there is a great deal of vitriol over this issue aimed at either side of the argument. The secular...

Posted by Mike Zimmerman on May 11, 2012 | 0 comments

What You Can Learn from Mo...

After finishing a paper on the spirituality of monasticism, it got me thinking about how diverse the different orders and rules of monasticism are. In the history of Chistianity, pious individuals have sought God in various ways. Beginning with St. Anthony of the Desert, solitude was thought to help with the search for God. When followers wanted to imitate St. Anthony, those who could not handle the...

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