Senior Spotlight: Jimmy Besh

Favorite Subject: English

Favorite book read at WA: Crime and Punishment 

What advice or encouragement would you give to younger students at Westminster? Engage with your teachers…specifically, ask Mr. Brown about electric cellos, or what’s wrong with the guy in The Sun Also Rises?

Senior Thesis Title: The Benefits and Consequences of Existentialism

Senior Thesis Statement: Existentialism has dangerous consequences, but also has benefits for Christians

Brief Description of Senior Thesis: Existentialism as a philosophy is harmful, but, in some ways it redeems itself. Thus the question appears, “Are there redeeming qualities inside a dangerous philosophy, like existentialism?” To answer this, it will be looked at through its purpose and history, why it is dangerous, and what can be taken from it nonetheless.

Post Graduation Plans: Undecided

Favorite Bible Verse: “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8)

Prayer Request: To find a good community in the place God puts me next.

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