In the beginning, there was the Word. The word created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over...

“Everybody wants this. Everybody wants to be us.” - Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada [Note: This is a review of the film, The...

The tragic divorce of the STEM fields and the humanities was first documented in 1959 in C.P. Snow's seminal essay The Two Cultures and...

What is the value of my colored pencil drawing of tall thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana var. virginiana) that hangs on my living room...

On the precipice of the future, I glanced into the past; aware of all that had been which could not last. Moving into the realm of...

When you fell, you rejoiced at becoming new, but my roots cannot fill the crater you leave. You didn’t see how birds and beasts were...

I recently read an article by Arthur Brooks which contends that cultivating multiple interests and doing different kinds of activities,...

In our current cultural moment, where speed, efficiency, and distraction are immanent, can food be a way to slow to the pace that allows...

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,...

[Note: This is a review of the film, Phantom Thread, and includes spoilers for plot points throughout the film.] Love nourishes. Love...

Songwriter Harlan Howard once described country music as “three chords and the truth.”1 Today, country music is often discounted as...

In the beginning God created, said, made, called, placed, and blessed all He made. And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and...

In tumultuous times, the mission of the media should be to stand as a beacon of understanding, through factual knowledge, as well as an...

Synthetic smoke carried up over a concrete river, walking on the bridge overhead, recalling the taste of speed. Passing boats in passing...

As a nurse, there may be times where I won’t agree with what the patient or healthcare provider thinks is the best treatment. This could...

Inspired by Tylor, Edward Burnett. “Chapter III: Survival in Culture.” In The Origins of Culture, 70–111. Harper & Brothers Publishers,...

Like many other freshmen last year, I entered my first semester at the University of Minnesota in 2020 with great uncertainty. Online...

—fell asleep inside a sunlit room; when I woke, it was too dark to leave. —stood and walked, bleary eyed, felt my hand along the wall for...

Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your...

The following reflection is based on an interview given by Mara Whiteaker and Laura Price with Tina Penttila, Marissa Otto, and Lara...