By Chrissie Chua
Here’s what my typical Monday schedule looks like- I wake up at 8:45am and get ready for a 9:30am class. After class, I have ten minutes to rush over to Kimmel, grab a take-out and then head over to take the subway to work at a middle school in Chinatown.
After work, I walk all the way from Chinatown to 1stAvenue and 12thStreet for another one of my classes. After this two-hour class, I then walk back to my dorm to drop off all my books and change into …

Just for the moment, let’s throw out everything you’ve ever heard about sex being right or wrong—what Christians say about it, or what Carrie Bradshaw says about it. What do you think? Is the desire purely physical and animalistic, or do you believe there’s something more to it—that we all crave a certain one-ness and intimacy that sex seems to provide? On another note, have you ever known someone who despite always having a lover has grown consistently more sexually frustrated? Why is …

Don’t know about you, but when I think of a Christian… I think of a person with a glowing smile, carrying a Bible, singing along with other “Christians” on a bright yellow school bus. Pretty picture right? And then the bus suddenly stops short. And then the people on the bus go, “WTF?” But wait a minute, I thought the people on the bus were Christians, and that makes you go, “WTF?”
See, oftentimes we have this sunny picture of what a Christian looks like until that person opens his or …

By C.M. Diaz
Every morning, before my first medical school lecture of the day, I stop by the market to buy a banana or apple for breakfast. A homeless man outside the store always stops me from entering and asks me to buy him food.
Taking pity on him the first time he approached me, I bought him a hamburger. When I handed it to him, he looked at me and said rudely, “Is that it? How am I supposed to eat this without juice?” I walked away laughing at his rudeness.
The …

By Yvette Shin

Yes, this is an article on sin. You may be expecting a long tirade on the wickedness of humankind and the hellfire that awaits us. No, my reason for broaching this topic is not to condemn but rather to inquire: what exactly is sin?
Defining sin can be problematic; understanding it even more so. Even our Seed members could not come to a consensus. When asked if wanting to be rich was a sin, 38% answered yes, 54% answered no, and a …