Month: September 2018
Some Wisdom from the Wise—Franklin’s Way to Wealth
Benjamin Franklin was so much more than one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an American polymath, a leading author, a printer, a politician, a scientist, […]
Attaining Virtue
Julia Joyce In his autobiography, Ben Franklin claims to seek “moral perfection.” He wants to be faultless and not miss the mark whether because of humans’ natural predisposition to sin, […]
Captive Writer
I can flip through the Bible at any moment of my day and pretend like a random passage has meaning to me at that very moment. It takes absolutely no […]
To Trust Like A Wasp—God’s Plan & Taylor’s Poem
Rebecca Reese Edward Taylor was a colonial American poet who used his talent to express his religious views. He used symbolism, anthropomorphism, and sometimes straightforwardness to get across his Puritan-influenced […]
Is the God of Christianity Good?
Julia Joyce “Day of Doom” by Michael Wigglesworth, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson, and Edward Taylor’s “Upon Wedlock and Death of Children” […]
Captivating Tales
Miranda Alexander The human race is undeniably allured by stories of crime and captivity. Something stirs deep within us when we tune into the news and are bombarded with the […]
Edward Taylor’s House Plants
Lyssa Henry As I discovered this week in one of my Literature classes, it is so easy for people to interpret the same piece of writing in many different ways. […]