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-Andrew Sveda | Monday, November 2, 2020
If you talk with Christians about their faith, no doubt many will tell you about a deep crisis in their life — a death of a loved one or a terrible illness — during which they were brought to faith in Jesus Christ. Sometimes people are moved by these stories, but I think most of
Andrew Sveda | Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The Sermon on the Mount is undoubtedly one of the most famous speeches of all time. Many of Jesus’ most popular teachings, like “[l]ove your enemies” and “turn the other cheek,” find their origins here. But the very first sentence of this great address is uniquely striking to me. “Blessed are the ____, for theirs
Andrew Sveda | Tuesday, October 6, 2020
If you had 60 seconds to deliver a message to the entire world, what would you say? This was the premise of an international competition last May. I thought about entering it, but I just couldn’t find the words. I thought of all the one-liners and words of encouragement I’ve heard since March, and then
Andrew Sveda | Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Does God exist? Thinking about this can feel so abstract and pointless when we’re doing our best just to fight off sleep in class or cram for tomorrow’s exam, but no question could possibly be more important. Indeed, it is the most fundamental and inescapable question. Once genuinely asked, it cannot simply be put off.
Andrew Sveda | Tuesday, September 8, 2020
In his column “The role of religion in government,” Blake Ziegler asks whether religious belief can be accepted under the constitution as justification for passing a law, a question he leans towards the negative. To truly tackle this question, however, we must also confront it on a broader, more philosophical level, asking not just “Is
Andrew Sveda | Tuesday, August 25, 2020
“Is it not like fiddling while Rome burns?” C.S. Lewis asked Oxford students in a sermon on Oct. 22, 1939. Poland had already surrendered, and Germany began to attack Britain just the past Monday, but classes in that quaint college town drudged along unfazed. Was it really right to go on solving silly word problems
Andrew Sveda | Monday, April 27, 2020
Last Wednesday, as many of you know, was the 50th Earth Day. Breathtaking snapshots of all that nature has to offer abounded on social media in celebration of the occasion. If we take the time to stop and look at them, photos like these are truly quite spectacular. They give us pause and make us
Andrew Sveda | Monday, April 6, 2020
These past few weeks have been, well, hard, to say the least. All of us have had something important to us taken away by COVID-19. But with all of us (hopefully) at home, we’ve gained something we’re always asking for: time. Yet now that we have it, we have absolutely no clue what to do
Andrew Sveda | Monday, March 23, 2020
Well, we’ve officially lost it. No doubt about that. Make no mistake, containing the coronavirus, let alone actually curing it, will be anything but an easy fight. But the media has spun the American public into an absolute frenzy. Grocery aisles once filled with nonperishables (and toilet paper) now lay absolutely bare. As everything flies
Andrew Sveda | Monday, February 24, 2020
Ah, the administration — that thing everyone loves to hate. It’s no secret. Go into Duncan or LaFun, start namedropping “Father Jenkins” or “Erin Hoffmann Harding” and you’re bound to hear some pretty impassioned rants. So when it came time to vote in the student body election over the past two weeks, I just assumed