Many of the residents at Eastern University might not know about the events that took place a few months ago at our neighboring school, Cabrini’s campus. According to local NBC, on Sept. 18, a female freshman, Sennia Vann, was returning from a family outing when she realized that her dorm room door was vandalized with […]
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Each community can be different in terms of diversity. Eastern has its small community of diverse people who, personally, I do not think get enough attention. Students love to showcase all the different things, people, and cultures we have on campus, and I think Hosea 4:6’s Multicultural Night was a great way to do that.
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Over the week of Nov. 13-17, one of Eastern’s largest campus ministries, Youth Against Complacency and Homelessness Today (YACHT) hosted their annual Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (H.A.H.A). They began this week by gathering in HHC to show the documentary “Lost Angels – Skid Row Is My Home.” Of this event that started out the
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“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 the Orthodox Church, I have always lived by this sentiment. The Church has played a vital role in my relationship with Christ
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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 of the most sought-after, and often the most treasured, is the love that grows friendship: “philia,” brotherly love. A
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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 of the 21st century? Why do we need to read about the Forms or the soul, in Plato? Why do we need
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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 different from a typical study abroad program. I lived on the South Island of New Zealand in a house with 19 other
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Europe is faced with a growing geopolitical crisis as tensions rise over the Catalan independence referendum. The northeastern region of Catalonia in Spain has enjoyed limited autonomy for much of its history. While the country remained under strict control during the Francoist period between 1935 and 1975, there has always been a
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Dr. Jim Harries, chairman of “The Alliance for Vulnerable Mission,” (AMV) shared about his missionary work in a Windows on the World lecture on Friday, Nov. 3. Harries began his talk by explaining what he does in the mission field. “For ministry, essentially, I do Bible teaching,” Harries said.
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Starting in the fall of 2018, Eastern University is introducing a brand new program called the EU FastPass. This program will hopefully save students time, money, and stress. To put it simply, residential students in traditional undergraduate programs will be able to receive two tuition-free, online summer classes for each year enrolled
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