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Two weeks ago was Rape Awareness Week at JBU. As part of the week, Students Against Sex Slavery showed a video with the stories of three rape victims at JBU, as told through the voices of others to protect their privacy. The stories were hard, some brutally so. My heart […]
It’s a worldwide trend transcending most every form of social media. A word or phrase prefixed by the number symbol (#) is now an everyday shorthand form of metadata tagging. This “hashtag” phenomenon has acquired a humorous reputation of sorts known most commonly within the realms of Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter […]
During my military experience I was taught the “Battle Buddy System.” This system is equally important to Christians in the Body of Christ in order to not leave each other behind, work together to achieve a common goal and further God’s kingdom. I wrote a guide to show others how […]
Please don’t hate the x. If you look through Wal-Mart’s cards, you will find a few bold “Xmas” tidings scattered among the holiday greetings of “Merry Christmas!” and “Happy Holidays.” In the past, many of us have sighed, thinking, “what is our world coming to when we remove Jesus from […]
Everyone knows to “keep the Christ in Christmas” during the holiday season. It is an idea found plastered on t-shirts and shouted from the pulpits of our churches. We know that baby Jesus was only a baby for a little while, that he grew up to save us from our […]
Have you stopped to think about what you really need? Commercials try to get us to buy toothpaste, facial creams, a pair of jeans, cereal, a car and so on. I asked one of my Education classes to write down what they needed. I had responses such as: coffee, fulfilling […]
What the Heck, America?!? This is the first installment in a weekly series of columns in which I will self-indulgently complain about whatever topic, trend, or event in American culture, politics or sports that ticks me off the most any given week. This week Oxford University Press, the publisher of […]
On John Brown University’s campus, the word community is thrown around daily. Living life with your friends, brothers and sisters in Christ and your significant others is something that the university promotes, as long as it is done in a healthy and morally respectful manner. In the JBU 2013-2014 Student […]
The other day my sister Sharon called to update me on the Martin MacNeill trial, currently all over TV apparently. (I don’t have TV because, if I did, I’d be following murder stories—or watching shows about Tilikum and that trainer with the ponytail and why we shouldn’t keep orcas in […]
You can tell what time of the semester it is by observing the busyness of the library. Students sit slouched over books, their glazed eyes straining to concentrate on and somehow absorb the material staring blandly up into their faces. Coffee fuels the student too drowsy to focus without caffeine. […]