What’s in a Name?
In the 2016 film Arrival, we see an excellent example of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, often referred to as linguistic relativity. This...
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Ashlyn Heise
Oct 31, 20237 min read
My Soul Body
Can you remember the first time you became aware of your own body? Perhaps you fell off your bike and scraped both knees, perhaps you...
Kyle Hamilton
Mar 24, 202334 min read
Repairing the Truth: Race, Political Reconciliation, and America’s White Churches
Introduction Twelve months after the murder of George Floyd, The Economist argued that understanding public discourse on race and racism...
Ben Kercheval
Mar 23, 202317 min read
Abolition as the Logic of Care: A Comparative Study
Over the past few years, incited in part by our national response to the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade and the 2020...
Owen Saarinen
Mar 23, 20237 min read
To Forgive a Psych Ward Doctor
It was 2018. I had already ridden a terrible wave of bipolar up and down many times. Between strained friendships, familial frustrations,...
Bekah Schulz
Mar 26, 20228 min read
On Food as Slowing:Enacting and participating in shalom through the breaking of bread
In our current cultural moment, where speed, efficiency, and distraction are immanent, can food be a way to slow to the pace that allows...
Ashlyn Heise
Mar 26, 20228 min read
A City and Hunger that Never Sleep
To be in need is one of our most human traits; we come into this world in incredible need, and we leave in incredible need. As infants,...
Ashlyn Heise
Oct 13, 20217 min read
Shabbat Shalom for All
In the beginning God created, said, made, called, placed, and blessed all He made. And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and...
Katie Salai
Oct 13, 20217 min read
Journalistic Objectivity Through a Christian Lens
In tumultuous times, the mission of the media should be to stand as a beacon of understanding, through factual knowledge, as well as an...
Laura Price
May 4, 20217 min read
Seeking Justice from a Kingdom Perspective: A Conversation with IJM@UMN
The following reflection is based on an interview given by Mara Whiteaker and Laura Price with Tina Penttila, Marissa Otto, and Lara...
Casey Garner
Apr 12, 202112 min read
The Foundation of Justice in Academic Misconduct
One of the best aspects of graduate school is teaching. The vocation of an educator demands tremendous effort and copious amounts of...
Caleb Molstad
Apr 6, 202110 min read
Racism, Repentance, and Reconciliation
I want to preface this essay about racial justice by stating two things about my identity. First, I am a Christian and second, I am...
D. Brendan Johnson
Mar 16, 202111 min read
New Frontiers in Medical Justice:
Human Fraternity, Human Rights, and Neoliberalism among Fratelli Tutti Lord, Father of our human family, you created all human beings...
Grace Olson
Mar 8, 20214 min read
Healing the Breach: A Christian Reflection on Charity and Justice
I remember one afternoon in my sophomore year at the University of Minnesota, rapidly pacing towards Anderson Hall, I stumbled into a man...
Emily Schoenbeck
Feb 8, 20215 min read
Christian Humility and Disability Studies
This spring I attended a talk by a visiting lecturer, Allison Hobgood, who led a discussion called “Being Smart: Disorientation, Access,...
Ian Gullickson
Feb 1, 20217 min read
It Takes All Kinds:
Gleaning Socio-Theological Wisdom from Durkheimian Functionalism and the New Testament Trope of the Body of Christ Left versus right,...
Maria Kraker
Jan 4, 20217 min read
What is the Cost of a Cup of Coffee?: Exploring Integral Ecology in Costa Rica
I first encountered sustainability ethics during my sophomore year of college through a Conservation Biology course at the University of...
John Hill Price
Dec 29, 20204 min read
For Sale: Hero Cape, Never Worn
As a society, we are fascinated by heroes. They form the basis for most of our stories: from Odysseus to Wonder Woman, we want to read...
Laura Price
Jun 30, 20209 min read
Redemptive Suffering and the University Experience
By Laura Price Suck it up. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Take up your cross and follow Me. One of these phrases is not like...
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Mar 2, 202010 min read
Breaking Bread: How Christians Can Build the Kingdom of God Through Food
By Margaret McEachran, essay and photos Introduction “When the disciples landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it,...
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