Bladerunner 2049 Revisited
Micah Skinner Blade Runner is a deeply unsettling 1982 sci-fi movie masquerading as a blockbuster action-mystery movie. Every shot, every sound, every idea is built to shake you from what you thought…
2017
The Art of Family Traditions
Kelsey Fiander-Carr I know what you must be thinking– Thanksgiving is the simple traditional gateway to the infamous Black Friday. Thanksgiving is merely a family acting as bears preparing for hibernation; they…
Eastern’s Senior Recitals
Alyssa Heric For a music major, the senior recital is the culmination of four years of practice and study. It is a young musician’s thesis and research project and rite of passage…
Thanksgiving Under the Shadow of Imperialism
Jesse Whiteman In Defense of Thanksgiving Written by Jesse Whiteman For most American families, including my own, thoughts of American imperialism are not a regular occurrence around the Thanksgiving table. Indeed, Thanksgiving…
“Anastasia” on Broadway
Jamie Bressmer The Broadway adaptation of “Anastasia” debuted in April of this year. The cast, which includes Christy Altomare as Anya (Anastasia), Derek Klena as Dmitry, and John Bolton as Vlad Popov,…
Eastern Welcomes Crowder: American Prodigal
Eliza Brown On Friday, David Crowder payed Eastern University and the St. Davids area a visit for his American Prodigal tour. It was an evening of worship — one that brought the…
Getting To Know The Orthodox Christian Fellowship
Jake Kurtz “No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother,” writes Saint Cyprian of Carthage in the early centuries of Christianity. Growing up in…
Love and Roommate-ship
There is in life that for which we all live: love. Of course there are different types of love, different definitions of love, and different understandings of love. But one…
Reflection on the Great Books
Ceara Shanahan Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Augustine, Aquinas, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Milton, and Hobbes. Why are these texts — today considered the Great Books of Western Civilization — still relevant to the needs…
Caring For Creation: Learning to Live Well in New Zealand
Emma Buchanan This past spring semester I studied abroad in New Zealand with Creation Care Study Program (CCSP). Although studying abroad is a classic college experience for many students, this semester was…