Disciples
Essays

¶ … street what the Holy Spirit represents one would probably get a consistent answer regardless of the number of people asked, or the spiritual beliefs of those asked. Christianity is based on several foundational…

¶ … Stand, by Stephen King [...] personal response to the novel. "The Stand" is a disturbing book that recounts the story of survivorship, new worlds, and man's inhumanity.

Although Melville's story of the scrivener would ostensibly seem to be about the mysterious stranger named Bartleby, it can more accurately be described as a story about the effect that Bartleby had on those around him,…

Women in the Amish religion are committed to living a life that is subordinate and subservient to the male members of the community. Many women within the Amish community complacently accept this role, as it is the role…

This paper looks at the intensive and complex process of becoming an disciple and the specific tool which are available for individuals who are engaging in this specific process. The tools for the congregation member who wishes to become a disciple are many and are nuanced: most can be found in scripture.

Jesus describes his relationship both to the Father, and also to all Christian believers in John 15:1-8. The passage relies on a central, extended metaphor of Jesus as the Vine of Life.

¶ … nature is that opposites attract and there is much binary opposition in human-Nature relationships.

Germany's high culture of the late medieval period was followed by a slow decline. In the seventeenth century the Thirty Year's War wrecked her material and political potential for more than a century.

The Tuskegee Experiments highlighted the true danger of research misconduct using human subjects. The essay here denotes that one resolution to research misconduct is to take on a strategy of faith-integration. The essay discusses the relationship between terms in the scriptures and the prevention of research misconduct involving human participants.

Although Book III in Plato's The Republic is titled 'The Arts in Education', it has come to be known as the author's censorship treatise. In order to provide an 'ideal' education for the state's guardians, or rulers,…