Sydney Hughes This past Monday, Hope College’s Students Demand Action for Gun Sense chapter partnered with the Peace and Justice Department to bring the community a guest speaker, Shane Claiborne. Natalie Schiller (‘26), a member of Hope’s SDA and survivor of the 2021 Oxford shooting, opened Claiborne’s lecture with words on her experience as an…
Bella Spry As the Fall Semester plunges into full swing and students settle into their daily rhythms, we see the emergence of two staple Hope College Traditions: Nykerk and the Pull. Unique and challenging in their own ways, both are intense competition between the Even and Odd Years on campus, with Freshmen and Sophomore as…
Author: Gabriel Wolthuis Singer-songwriter Chris Renzema has built a career out of expressing feelings of doubt, faith and hope with a level of maturity and humility difficult to find in the Christian music landscape. Hailing from the nearby city of Grand Rapids, he found success early in his career with the single “How to Be…
No social media, no sweet food and cold showers every day for a whole semester may not sound like fun. However, for the 100+ men involved in Exodus 90, this lifestyle of sacrifice has become the norm. Exodus 90 is a program run through the Saint Benedict Institute here at Hope College. Those enrolled in…
Have you ever taken a look at yourself in the mirror and realized you need more hobbies?My reflection dropped that lovely truth bomb on me a couple months ago and since then I havebeen on a self-motivated and difficult journey of finding out what it is I actually like to do.As a growing child you…
Due to spring break, Hope College missed a very important celebration: World Water Day! On March 22, people around the world celebrated the beauty of water! Though many Hope students were off campus for break, we made it a priority to celebrate this day when students returned. Many people came together locally to raise awareness…
This spring, director Chris Garcia Peak was invited to come work with Hope theatre students to create a fun and interesting devised work. During the fall, students were invited to attend a three-day workshop led by Garcia Peak. From here, the students along with Garcia Peak created a concept that he would then present to…
General information On Monday, March 27, a shooting occurred in Nashville, TN at Covenant School, a private Christian school for preschool to sixth grade students. Three staff members and three nine-year-old students were killed as a result of this attack. What happened The shooter, armed with three guns, entered the school by shooting through a…
The United States’ political climate has entered uncharted waters as Donald Trump becomes the first former President to face criminal charges. Trump has been convicted of thirty-four counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. All of the charges relate to a $130,000 hush-money payment made by one of Trump’s lawyers and Trump’s subsequent…
Devised theatre is a Hope College tradition that takes place every few years. This is where an invited guest artist comes in to work with students on creating an original work. Hope Theatre’s last production of the year, “The Boy Who Hates Everything”, opens this week and it is exactly that. The script has been…