There is a prevailing theme in modern western culture that one needs to consume a lot of protein in order to be healthy. This message persists through commercials, food labels, and fitness “experts,” among other sources. Furthermore, protein is typically associated with animal products alone. Meat and protein are essentially synonymous in our culture. Surrounded […]
*Trigger warning for suicide, physician-assisted suicide, or death.* [twocol_one]Yes Kit Apostolacus Death is a very sensitive thing—despite us all inevitably experiencing it. I want to be very careful and note that I am not encouraging suicide. My situation is notably different from Brittany Maynard’s, the 29-year-old woman with terminal cancer who made public plans to
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We tattoo ourselves with Greek phrases, we smatter our Facebook profiles with pictures of us and kids from third-world countries, we swear by organic, fair trade ingredients. We leave churches because the music isn’t authentic enough, beautiful enough, or fulfilling enough. We thrive off of Hillsong’s worship music. We sit in coffee shops with lattes,
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1. Not enough community. You are sitting quietly in your room, diligently and enthusiastically attempting a paper, thinking ‘Gee whiz, I really wish somebody would come and bang on my door and invite me to go play video games for the rest of my evening.’ Naturally, you should give up all of your academic obligations
Women’s volleyball soars to seventh straight conference title. I struggle to find a title to adequately describe the Eastern women’s volleyball team’s past two decades or so. The 18-Year Dynasty? The Reign of Terror? The Queens of the Court, perhaps? In essence, there is no easy way to describe the program that added its seventh
Eastern men’s basketball will be under way Saturday Nov. 15. This season has the potential to be a good season for the Eastern Eagles men’s basketball team. They were picked fourth in the Freedom Conference preseason polls. If this prediction is right, then the Eagles will make the Freedom Conference tournament. This would be a
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We are just a couple of days away from the beginning of another women’s basketball season. They kick off the season Nov. 14 against UMBC and then play the notorious school from across the street, Cabrini, on Nov. 17. This season should be exciting and interesting. Eastern is ranked second in the Freedom Conference preseason
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Even though the Eastern Eagles lost on Saturday against King’s College, they still had a very successful season. If the Eagles won on Saturday it would have been their first conference championship since 2007. However, they played extremely well in the heart-breaking double overtime loss against King’s. The Eagles started this year as the favorites
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The World Series is the pinnacle of baseball’s 162-game season, and this year the battle for the best team took place between a band of misfits, the San Francisco Giants, and America’s team, the Kansas City Royals. Game one seemed to be established in the first inning of the game. Pablo Sandoval’s RBI double started
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Press Release from the Task Force on Human Sexuality Eastern Community – In the face of new understandings and historical dynamics, and because scripture tells us we are “fearfully and wonderfully made,” President Duffett has called a task force to plan for campus-wide conversation on human sexuality “in all its facets” from historical, Biblical, theological,
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