Jonathan Hiskes

Fatherly Rage

Jonathan Hiskes grapples with parental anger amid the tedium and injustice of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brandon Wrencher

Our Cries for Equity

Brandon Wrencher offers a theological and liberationist reading of the story of Cain and Abel.

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Georgiana Eliot

A Story of Stars and Violence

A story of a student waking up to the genocidal conquest that founded her country and the contemporary reenactments of this violence.

David A. Garner

The Briefing 7.4.14

Howard Megdal makes a defense for the hot dog: Let’s be honest: When you are eating a hot dog, you are making a bargain with God. There’s a certain amount of information you normally receive when you purchase food. You buy a hamburger, there’s a certain level of belief that it’s ground beef. The same […]

Jonathan Hiskes

Pamoja House

This is the story of a wealthy group of students who willingly gave up everything and the one vegan stew that kept them all together.

Chad Lakies

CFP: Space, Place, and Mimetic Theory

July 10-14, 2013 University of Northern Iowa A LAND BETWEEN TWO RIVERS Between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, a self-sustaining eco-system that now comprises the state of Iowa was created over thousands of years. In 1800, 240 million acres of tall grass prairie covered middle America. By 1900, this land had been transformed into farm […]

Rebecca Lynne Fullan

Telling My Beads

Rebecca Lynne Fullan, in “Telling My Beads,” weighs her reasons for wearing a rosary for inspiration, Christ’s “tiny twist . . . of body in metal” a strange weight on both body and soul.