Author J.K. Rowling famously said “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” Looking back now, my first experience with drugs seemed innocent and insignificant. I was 15 years old the first time I smoked marijuana with my friends. In school, the phrase “marijuana is a gateway drug” was repeated so many times that it no longer held any meaning to me. I carelessly thought “i am too smart to ever be a drug addict” and shrugged it off. Now, at the age of 29, I am proud to say
Christian College Thought Paper Wendy Guindi Azusa Pacific University Christian College As a person who is approaching college quickly, I thought this book The Idea of a Christian College by Arthur F. Holmes was interesting and helpful. I have read several themes about living for God and preparing for college. Such as why a Christian college, Integrating Faith and Learning, College as Community, and Experience is not enough. He spoke about different debates that helped me realize how
Douglass’s transformation from ignorance to knowledge, as Douglass understood the crucial role that education played in his condition. This narrative is a primary source because Douglas himself wrote it, which means that readers get first-hand experiences, wrote it. Douglass not only relates his sufferings as an enslaved person but he also provides the context and history of slavery.
The experiences that will influence ones academic work and goals at Colorado Christian University (CCU), is positioning, time management and motivation. Setting priorities, identifying prime time and most importantly setting goals that will allow one to make the right informed choices. The sacrifices, hard work along with the beauty and the power of failing has helped this writer brake barriers to step out in order to become successful. One of life’s experiences that have had a great impact on my
Preface Rowan Williams, The Wounded Knowledge: Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St. John of the Cross Probably, Augustine’s Confessions is a single text that most resonate with Rowan William’s imaginative life. It is a work that uniquely fuses spirituality with theology. Augustine articulates truth about God by talking to God: the reader is eavesdropping on his theology. The modern distinction between theology and spirituality is rendered meaningless in Augustin’s language of
__________ . Born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, C.S Lewis abandoned his faith as a child and thus became an atheist. After a profound conversion experience, Lewis matured into one of the greatest and most known apologist for the Christian faith. Shaped through his occupations as a professor at both Cambridge University and an associate at Oxford University, C.S Lewis wrote a vast collection of books, including the children series The Chronicles of Narnia. Due to its ______ and unthreatening approach
the time Muslim had controlled the Holy Land since the seventh century. By the end of eleventh century, there are some tension between Muslim and Christianity that spurred the Crusades. Muslim Turks defeated Byzantine Empire’s armies and stopped Christian pilgrims to visit
With technology on the upsurge and media being made ever so accessible through the web, phones and portable devices, has the Christian religious worship experiences been impacted by the simplicity of technology? This brief examination pursues to ask that very question. Is there a concern or correlation between our Christian worship attendance, giving, spiritual growth with the advances of technology? Could there be a perceived negative impact on how technology would be received by the church because
Nathan A. Finn, and Keith Harper. 2008. Domestic slavery considered as a scriptural institution. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press. Holifield, E. Brooks. 2003. Theology in America: Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Noll, Mark A. 2008. God and race in American politics: a short history. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Prudhomme, Joseph Gilbert. 2011. Faith and politics in America from Jamestown to the Civil War. New York:
Anne M. Clifford, an accredited theologian and associate professor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, is the author of the novel Introducing Feminist Theology. Clifford’s book preforms as an ideal textbook for an introductory course on Feminist Theologies. Introducing Feminist Theology includes six chapters that address such topics as, the origins of Christian feminist theology, biblical perspectives, ecclesiology, feminist spirituality, and ecology. In this novel, Clifford aims