Classwork , homework, quizzes, tests, finals, projects, work, and depression. For most, this combination is foreign to them, but, for some, it is an all-too-real reality that presents itself as a struggle each day. I was diagnosed with depression just this semester, but I struggled with the effects of sadness all throughout my life. […]
College Students and Mental Illness: A Personal Look at Depression Read Post »
This past summer I picked up a small book at a yard sale called “When the Trees Say Nothing,” written by Thomas Merton who was a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani. The book reads like a journal with entries meditating on his love and wonder of the natural world. Merton talks of the
Reflection on Nature Read Post »
When people think of a 400-year-old text, not many people would think that it connects to a modern day dilemma such as sexual assaults on college campuses. However, Dr. William Storm, an Eastern English professor, makes just that connection. In a paper Dr. Storm is presenting to the New Chaucer Society, he claims in his
Dr.William Storm Presents on “The Wife of Bath” Read Post »
Last month, a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck at 21:18 local time near the Iraqi border, killing more than 500 people and injuring thousands, making this the world’s deadliest earthquake so far this year. The quake was so intense that it could be felt as far away as Turkey and Pakistan.
All Around The World: Iraqi border Read Post »
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
Racial Slur Incidents at Cabrini Read Post »
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.
Eastern’s Multicultural Night Read Post »
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
Homelessness and Awareness: A look into YACHT’s H.A.H.A week Read Post »
“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
Getting To Know The Orthodox Christian Fellowship Read Post »
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
Love and Roommate-ship Read Post »
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
Reflection on the Great Books Read Post »
