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Pandemic

Sustainable Hope

| May 28, 2021 | Blog Contributor

Sustainable Hope
It has been a little over a year since Covid-19 struck the world. The pandemic induced a fear that rooted itself deep within society as two weeks turned into months. Although for many the quarantine life was highly isolating, people came together (digitally of course)...
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Christine Toavs
Christine Toavs is a junior studying English and political science at Northwest University and was selected as a 2021 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog.

The Lockdown Paradox

| January 8, 2021 | Blog Contributor

The Lockdown Paradox
On a warm December morning in Sarasota, Florida, people throng the local Wawa, pouring coffee, ordering breakfast and exchanging morning pleasantries. The only evidence of a pandemic are plastic shields in front of the cash register and the ignored “masks required”...
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Tennyson Bush
Tennyson Bush is a senior economics and international politics major at Wheaton College where he serves as managing editor of "The Wheaton Record." He was selected as a 2020 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog.

Desiring Community: A Lesson from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

| August 1, 2020

Desiring Community: A Lesson from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Like many students who attended a Christian college or university, I read Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer for the first time during my freshman year of college. At the time, I was several weeks into a study away...
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Aryana Petrosky Roberts
Aryana Petrosky Roberts is a senior associate for AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. She graduated from Azusa Pacific University, and is a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

Can COVID-19 help us find what we’ve been searching for?

| May 18, 2020 | Blog Contributor

Can COVID-19 help us find what we’ve been searching for?
As a society, we have been practicing physical distancing and respecting stay-at-home orders for about a month and a half, and I have to admit, I have run out of ideas to keep myself busy during my time at home. I have baked countless pies, cookies, and loaves of...
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Camryn Zeller
Camryn Zeller was selected as a 2020 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior at Hope College where she studies economics, political science, and math.

The Power of Local

| May 19, 2020 | Blog Contributor

The Power of Local
With the uncertainty of quarantine dictating our current social norms, a looming question many of us face going forward is this: how do we re-engage in society post-isolation with purpose and meaning? Put another way, to revise and reconsider Thoreau’s famous dictum:...
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Clara Keuss
Clara Keuss was selected as a 2020 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a Sophomore at Pepperdine University where she studies international studies with a concentration in the Middle East and North Africa.