Author Archives: Brandon Fong

Putting the “Good” in Good Friday

What makes Good Friday “good?” It’s a common and seemingly innocuous question that sometimes occurred to me as a child. On the surface, the name seems like a misnomer. One interpretation points us in that direction—it is theorized that the term “Good Friday” originated from Old or Middle English, where the word “good” might haveContinue reading “Putting the “Good” in Good Friday”

Claritas x Epistle: Advent Introduction

This Advent season, we’re collaborating with writers across the Augustine Collective, a network of student-led Christian journals, to bring you a series of short devotional articles. Find this series also published by Cornell Claritas. We at the Penn Epistle and Cornell Claritas are very excited to announce a collaboration between our two journals for the Advent season. We’llContinue reading “Claritas x Epistle: Advent Introduction”

I’m Christian and I watched KPop Demon Hunters—and You Should Too

This article contains heavy spoilers for the Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters I’ve never heard my roommates create more noise than when we had a watchparty of the hit animated kids movie of the summer—KPop Demon Hunters. For half an hour after the film was over, we sang (and screamed) the movie’s soundtrack—the likes ofContinue reading “I’m Christian and I watched KPop Demon Hunters—and You Should Too”