Has an experience in your life ever sparked you to ask the question “why do bad things happen to good people?” Perhaps an event in your life or your relative’s life has led you to reflect on this very complicated concept. Sometimes, certain events and experiences seem very unfair, cruel, unreasonable, and hurtful, and it’s…

What characteristics do you believe shape a strong leader? It’s very common for individuals to think about courage, transparency, communication, respect, self-awareness, and humility… but what about infallibility? Can you think of any leader in your life who is ultimately excellent in everything that they do and are never wrong? The answer to this question…

When you think about items made out of gold, what comes to mind? Jewelry, medals, coins, ornaments, watches, or crowns perhaps? All of these items made from gold have a lot of worth and value. They are expensive items that are often difficult to come by, and especially rare to find authentically made from pure…

Imagine the absolute worst possible place to be.  It’s most likely a space consumed by darkness, terror, hate, disgust, and death. A place where no hope exists and nothing exists in beauty. In the book Paradise Lost, the author John Milton provides readers with a great sense of experiencing Hell and its consuming darkness. In…

In The Nature of Contemporary Criticism by Michael Pomazansky, he describes the complex notion that biblical scripture is uniquely a combination of both magnificent and ordinary. He alludes to the idea that biblical text is the most representative of the sacredness of God’s extraordinary work, although sometimes the message of God was transmitted through the…

Hello everyone, my name is Kayla. I am a junior Biology major from the Philadelphia area. I grew up in a Catholic family and attended Catholic school my entire life before Bucknell. My first memory of the bible was listening to the gospel in church on Sunday’s when I was younger. Throughout my elementary education,…