Marina Olson

Marina Olson

Marina Olson is a freelance journalist with a masters in theology from Ave Maria University, where her studies focused on both marriage and the family and systematic theology.

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Articles


On Brunch and Business

October 30, 2014

Solving a problem like corporate capitalism requires more than brunches, but the modern brunch does indicate that no matter how crazy our jobs are, we all still crave community. Even when our environment encourages autonomy, we will create a space for breaking bread together.


All You Need Is Love

September 18, 2014

In a sense, we have to shift the entire conversation surrounding sex away from sex.


Guys and Dolls

August 20, 2014

Though difficult compositions of chromosomal and hormonal effects exist, being male or female is not a behavior: It is a necessary aspect of the physical matter.


The Way Things Work

July 15, 2014

Our making and fixing arise from an incredibly human impulse. Making calls us to be spirited because through it, we encounter, shape, and come to understand the way things are and work—artifacts and the things of nature.


On Shaping the World with Words

July 3, 2014

We no longer think about issues—be they moral, political, or social—as merely abstract applications of the true and the good. We also approach them by way of an intrinsically emotional response, evoked by a series of visual impressions.


Little Lion Man

June 25, 2014

When our experiential existence, our pain, our sorrows, that which wounds us, becomes the object of our godlike gaze, we limn a reality that is utterly internal.


Lose Your Passion

June 23, 2014

No one is saying life must be drudgery; life is quite bright and exceptionally shiny. But it tends to look less so when we close our eyes and attempt to impose the world of our imaginations on the exterior.


Autonomy and the Course of Human Events

June 20, 2014

We can’t join our communities tomorrow, we cannot strengthen those deeply human ties tomorrow. We can, and must, root ourselves into the course of human life today.