The Weather: In case you haven’t noticed yet, the weather outside is changing. It’s gone past the point of being oncoming autumn weather. Now it’s just straight up unpredictable. The weather is ruining my morning before I even go outside. After my alarm clock wakes me up with The Newsboys, I have to answer some […]
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On Sept. 10, the Agora Institute hosted a lecture by Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik. Entitled “Religious Freedom and the Flourishing City,” this lecture, which was part history lesson, part political treatise, provided a compelling vision for religion in 21st-century America. Rabbi Soloveichik is a prominent Jewish theologian. In addition to being Rabbi of the Congregation
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The Long Line: It’s 12 p.m., lunch time, and I’m ready to get me some delicious well-earned sustenance. I am however halted in my noble quest by an abysmally large group of students in a single file clump all the way down Walton’s stairs. Where did this monstrosity come from? It’s never here during breakfast
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A Social Conservatives Take History is full of examples of progressives (also known as liberals) fighting to end discrimination and intolerance. But what happens when liberal ideologies become the general consensus and conservatives find that their voices are no longer popular? Katelyn Beaty of “Christianity Today” sat down with Kirsten Powers, author of “The Silencing:
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[twocol_one] By Anthony Barr Benefits Every internship is a paid internship. That is to say, every internship provides, at least on paper, compensation to the intern. Whether the currency of compensation is tangible, as in the case of money or college credit, or whether it is intangible, as in the case of learning and experience,
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I grew up in an evangelical church in which I learned to trust the Bible completely. When in that same church I learned that the Bible is actually a library of books written over the course of a thousand years or so, I began to wonder why some books, and not others, were chosen to be
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As Jordan Kolb wrote in “Goshen College, EMU Change Hiring Policies” on page 1-2, Goshen College and Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) both changed their hiring policies regarding LGBT faculty. Over the summer, both Mennonite schools announced their additions of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to their non-discrimination policies—a motion contrary to their Mennonite denomination’s beliefs.
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[twocol_one] By Ryan Klein Yes The Digital Age has improved journalism in obvious and numerous ways. Not long ago, a news story could spread only so fast and so far as someone could carry it. Whole towns were once limited to the perspectives of their local publishers. Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, even the smallest
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Education Inequality in Philadelphia This semester, I drive into inner-city Philadelphia five days a week to student-teach at an urban school. This is the final requirement that I must complete in order to graduate in May with a degree in music education, and the experience has been difficult, eye-opening and immensely valuable. It has also
She looked at me. I looked at her. Silence filled the room as my brain nervously fluttered over the last words that she had spoken. Subject? Check. Verb? Check. Question particle? Check. Then, the lightbulb clicked on at last. Relieved that I finally understood what she had said, I smiled. Yet my relief quickly faded
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