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THERE IS SUCH A THING AS INDESCRIBABLE JOY

On May 19, 1838 at 10:30 a.m. a worldly university student, age 25, whose life had been plagued by a family curse, a culture of death, an abusive and condemning Christian father and the unremitting intellectual powers of his own dark genius, recorded the following experience: “There is such a thing as indescribable joy which glows through us as unaccountably …

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My God Longing Mother and Handel’s Messiah

For most of us Christmas began with magic, the magic of Santa Claus. We cannot remember when we began believing in Santa, at least I cannot. I knew that Santa was treasured and reinforced by everybody I trusted. So I was devastated when celebrating my sixth Christmas to discover that Santa Claus was not Santa, he was in fact my …

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ARE WE JUST ECHO CHAMBERS OF SUPERFICIAL CONFORMITY?

An observer comes into the lunchroom of a campus noted for it’s stand against racism and observes the races clustered in racially segregated groups around the lunchroom. The visitor says “Can we not do better than this?” The answer comes back, “All of the students insist on their constitutional right to eat in a “safe space.” And so it is …