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What does health inequity look like?
In February 2016 I spent three weeks in Cambodia with a short-term medical missions team. The purpose of the medical team was twofold: give the med students a glimpse of rural tropical medicine, and encourage the local church by visiting villages of local missionaries.
I talked to a professor at Covenant, Mrs. Cynthia Young, about the issue of the r-word after I heard someone use it in reference to music. As professor of the Education of Exceptional Children class, Mrs. Young is very knowledgeable about the exceptional community. Isaiah, her son and seventh child, now twenty-two, has Down syndrome.
We only see a woodland walrus again a couple of weeks later, when we four head to Amsterdam and Belgium for a week’s respite from essay writing. It’s a moment of peace—the beginning of October, clear skies illuminating the cows loitering in the field outside, sunrise gleaming through the back window of the bus.
Read moreIt’s been roughly eleven years since the ‘Jonas Brothers 3D Concert Experience’ movie came out in theaters. I lived in a little town in Massachusetts at the time, and our primary movie theater was the one in the mall. One night, shortly after the movie was released, when my little sister, probably around five at the time, was in bed, my mom snuck me out of the house to go see the movie with her.
Read moreIsabel swears I’m not thinking clearly, but I keep insisting that there’s this magnificently large, green, blubbery walrus in the bushes outside of the house. We call it the Grove, the section of hedges that curtains our little house from the main house. It’s a lovely place, but crowded.
Read moreI haven’t been feeling particularly anxious lately, which I can attribute to both my being busy since starting classes and to my settling into some semblance of a routine. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been anywhere, or seen pretty much anyone besides my family and a few neighbors. While I’m very grateful that my family and I are in a position to be able to stay home and shelter in place, I’m beginning to feel lonely. Based on the general mood I’ve observed on Instagram, and a few texts I received this week, it seems that I’m not alone.
Read moreWhen I asked “What do you know about Lent?” from an admittedly small sample size, here are some of the responses I gathered:
“Absolutely nothing—you give something up, right? It’s just never been important to me.” - Levi Tucker
“People eat fish…?” - Benjamin Streets
“Same as Levi” - Tim Pardigon
Read moreWelcome to my bedroom, where I’m sitting on my bed (even though I’m fairly certain that, ideally, I’m supposed to be working at a desk for maximum productivity) and sorting through the things I need to get done this week, with my cup of coffee on the windowsill next to me, and the giant blanket I’ve been knitting sprawled out on the bedspread.
Read moreTruth 1: I have a multicultural background and have a heart for racial reconciliation, especially among God’s people.
Truth 2: I desire a society in which every citizen, regardless of ethnic identity, is afforded economic mobility while being treated with dignity and respect.
Read moreAs the spring months approach and the flowers begin to bud, the continual controversy pops from the melting snow. Is there a natural goodness in dandelions? Are they beautiful flowers? Or are they perched on lawns, little beacons of uncontrolled growth that lie within the bed of the earth? I took it upon myself to find out.
Read moreWe live in a world that is consistently, if not constantly, asking for our thoughtful reflections on life. More specifically, we are compelled to engage with issues that pertain largely to prevalent moral and ethical issues that cause divisions amongst those within the church, as well as causing tensions with those outside of it (e.g., presidential politics, health care, economics, etc).
Read moreLast night, I was in the library. Contrary to the general state of affairs, none of my friends was sitting at our favorite table, so I meandered through the sections, haphazardly perusing the children’s fiction section in the far corner, behind the shelves.
Read moreI have long called myself a lover of movies and cinema, though I have not always branched out in the movies I watched. I usually watch shallow, quick-hitting movies with an easy plot and a lot of humor to carry it along. This year I decided to delve deeper into cinema and to watch every single Academy Award Best Picture Nominee. Here are my thoughts, rankings, and judgments.
Read moreWhat would it look like to let people know that they are seen, in all their uniqueness and their Christ-imaging, without thinking much about ourselves?
Read moreThis by no means is an advertisement for non-denominational (non-dom) churches or an attack against the PCA. I came to Covenant because I saw questions being asked here that I knew I needed to wrestle with that other schools didn’t confront in the same way. However, while there is something beautiful about the Reformed faith, it is not the only denomination with merit.
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