Satan and The Usual Suspects

In the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects, a con man — Roger “Verbal” Kint — is brought in for questioning in regards to a cargo boat explosion. During the conversation, Kint tells the police that this might be the result of an elusive (sometimes...

The Origin Of Racism

Racism isn’t a genetic trait. It’s a learned behavior, a product of social norms, history, stereotypes and prejudices, right? Well, not so fast. For the student taking an undergraduate class in sociology or anthropology, this is of course the typical...

Rooms Available — Sinners Welcome

Walking into a hospital, we all have certain expectations. For one, it’s not designed to make us feel good. I wouldn’t expect any of you to decide to spend your time there on a Friday night. Of course not, you’d rather be yucking it up at the local...

License To Sin

On February 21, 2008, Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, former head of the UK Secret Intelligence Service, testified in court during Princess Diana’s inquest that they do grant a licence to kill. This came as a surprise to some who thought a license to kill was...

The Big Question

From the time I am writing this, it was exactly one week ago that I asked my girlfriend to marry me. It was an evening that we will never forget. Even though she didn’t know when it was going to happen, we had talked about marriage plenty before I popped the...

The Pioneer Of SparkNotes

“Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.” ― J.I. Packer, Knowing God Growing up, I loved sparknotes.com. For those of you unaware of...