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Donald Miller has been described by Christianity Today as “Anne Lamott with testosterone.” Indeed, Miller’s Blue Like Jazz and Lamott’s Traveling Mercies have strong parallels. Both tell the stories of the authors’ road to faith in God. Both address, topic by topic, big questions about life and spirituality they feel their readers should ask. Both […]

The Equality Ride is scheduled to visit Eastern in late April. The Ride is organized by Soulforce, a Christian gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights group. It will be visiting 20 religious and military schools that they feel have discriminatory policies toward homosexuals. Many of the schools that were targeted are members of the Council

Another season of Eastern’s women’s lacrosse is here, and so are its 20 players. When asked what the expectations of this season are, first year Ashley Jones replied, “To win PAC’s! To be a great and positive example to other teams through our attitudes, how we play together, and how we make sure to keep

Imagine being afraid to spend the night in your own home for fear of being kidnapped during the night as you lay sleeping. Imagine walking miles to the nearest hospital or safe haven every night to sleep for a couple of hours and then waking before dawn to walk all the way home. Imagine living

“With all due respect to the authors of draft resolution 1.2 and to the esteemed delegate from Mongolia, this draft resolution is trash.” Here, the delegate from Maldives raised a paper up for the entire Historical General Assembly of 1971 to see… and tore it up into the microphone. “Maldives cannot support a resolution with

With prom season just around the corner, many high school girls are already looking for the perfect dress. But not all of these girls will be able to make their Cinderella dream come true. With most dresses costing over $100, junior Angela Houser knows that finances can keep a lot of girls from attending prom.

I’m sure we’re all familiar with the futile battle to cool off by opening windows inside certain buildings around campus. Add to this the energy released from the impressive grid of floodlights, the engine exhaust from all the cars eternally circling in lower McInnis parking lot and the underground pressure build-up from the perpetual construction

For the last four years, I’ve generally disliked the idea of short-term mission trips. After studying abroad in Uganda, that opinion became even stronger. It got to the point where I had a knee-jerk response, verging on hatred, whenever I met someone who had been on, was planning to go on, or had ever entertained

When I was five years old, my father took me to see the Disney version of Cinderella at a packed theatre. During the scene in which the ugly stepsisters start ripping apart Cinderella’s dress, most of the other kids in the room started to cry. Not me. I stood on my chair, pointed at the

Anja Eltgroth was raised in an Episcopal home. Before she entered Eastern, she had left that more traditional church and “trended fundamentalist-like,” she said, even somewhat anti-Catholic. But now, as a senior, she has done more than just convert to Catholicism. When she graduates, she plans to become a nun. Her turn toward the higher