Whitworth

From Engagement

Observe the man in its natural habitat
observe how closely the end of the academic year resembles the end of the world
observe a smiling emo armageddon,
and join him in laughter and autopastiche.
And to his miscreant neighbors and compatriots:
a phallic salute and nasty words. We’re done here.
[springtime and ends
like pilots and bends–
up is not up, and where’s
down […]

I think it’s important to be very deliberate in living, and to make sure that money doesn’t become something we do for its own sake, but rather a means to a deliberate end – namely, freeing our lives to be more about social realities and less about material substitutes. This has occurred to me a […]

[yes, this is shamelessly ripped from a Core 250 paper. hey, Greg Orwig liked it…]
The question of moral relativism has been the elephant in the room for Christian thinkers for ages, from Pontius Pilate’s question of “what is truth?” to the emergence of Christian existentialism. Crystal Downing’s How Postmodernism Serves My Faith asserts that in […]

(yes, this is Yet Another Fiction Prompt) 

a scene which shows two people
who care for each other a great deal
 

“I’m an English major and you’re a Communication Studies major,” Bryan said to Katie.
The silence was short because it was expected.
He continued. “Doesn’t that make it weird that we communicate entirely in lowercase letters?”
“How in the hell—I […]


Splendor and Non

Of Interest and Epiphany

Topics for Consumption