There is no shortage of Bible studies on Hope’s campus, many of them officially sponsored by Campus Ministries and many others run informally in small groups. Most of these Bible studies are targeted at a specific group of people: men or women, religious skeptics, members of a certain denomination, people with a certain job or…
This past Thursday, April 7, 2022, the Women’s Empowerment Organization (WEO) held a panel on feminism in VanderWerf Hall at 7:00 p.m. The topic for the night was, broadly, “What Is Feminism?” The panelists spent an hour discussing the different education that they received on feminism, the opinions they had formed on it during their…
This past weekend Hope College hosted its twenty-second annual Dance Marathon. Over the course of the school year, almost a thousand Hope College volunteers raised over $350,000 to support Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital by hosting fundraisers, selling merchandise, collecting donations and offering services. There’s a good chance you know someone who was involved in this…
The February 23 rollback of on-campus mask mandates had many people celebrating and many others organizing in protest following a petition from Hope Advocates for Invisible Conditions (HAIC). “I don’t view lifting the mandatory usage of masks as a positive,” said Hope student and petition signer Seth Hays (’24), “I think it unnecessarily endangers our…
Are you confused by the enthusiasm everyone seems to have for basketball around this time of year? Did you miss out on those elementary school lessons that your friends recall with such fond nostalgia? Were you focused on finding ways to sit out in PE instead of paying attention as the teacher explained the rules…
On January 15, 2022, ten speakers, an executive board of students, an eager audience and a band of volunteers entered the DeWitt Theater for an evening of brief, high-quality presentations on a variety of topics. Together they created Hope College’s second annual TEDxHopeCollege event, West Michigan’s official independently organized TEDx event dedicated to allowing the…
This past weekend the Hope College Music Department put on one of their most important annual traditions, which has been a fixture at Hope for over fifty years: the Christmas Vespers service. Part group prayer, part concert, Vespers draws crowds from across the Midwest and is recorded every other year for broadcast on public television….
So your roommate just got onto the soccer team and asked you to go to his games, but you’re not sure whether to cheer when the ball bounces off his head. You don’t know why everyone’s so stoked about the World Cup, or even what that means exactly. You feel left out when everyone is…