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    Culture & Faith

    Transformed Heart: A Commentary On Nicole Cliffe’s Article

    Waking up this morning to the sound of my phone alarm, I picked up my phone and scrolled through Facebook. This is a habit that I’ve been trying to kick, but old habits certainly die hard. Since fasting from social media last year during Lent, I’ve felt transformed in how I want to use social media. I think God knows this about me, and has used my yearnings (and flaws) to His advantage, because I came across a moving article on Christianity Today during my Facebook-morning-journey. Written by Nicole Cliffe, her article “How God Messed Up My Happy Atheist Life“, is a testimony about how she came to Christ. Cliffe…

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    Academia & Writing

    Writing and Christianity: Drawing Parallels

    When it comes right down to it, I feel uncomfortable with calling myself a “writer”. I had always imagined writers as people who hunch over their typewriters (now computers), writing over 1,000 words a day without fail. Write an epic novel in half a year? No problem! But while writing is something that comes fairly naturally to me, the routine of it seems to elude me. Getting into a daily (or weekly) habit happens to be just beyond my grasp, and when I do happen to, for a moment, just touch it, my attention is diverted and I’m pulled back to where I began. When I don’t write for a while, I…