As the semester begins to turn in for a long-awaited Christmas break, participants of The 95 Stories, a student run project dedicated to displaying experiences of homophobia and racism within the Hope College community, debuted their cause this past weekend with a music-silencing walked out of Christmas Vespers. At Sunday’s 2:00 p.m. service, Josh Chun…
(Kelly Ocock) The Women’s Empowerment Organization (WEO) and others organized a peaceful demonstration on Friday in reaction to a sermon given by Rev. James Ellis on Oct. 30. That day’s sermon, entitled “Tricks are for Kids” was from Proverbs 30:31. The verse, read by Arika Tolbert (’20), was: “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;…
I am deeply disheartened. I grew up receiving all sorts of mixed messages from the Church, my peers and the whole world about who Jesus is and what He calls us to. Some people seemed to think it was about rules, about rights and wrongs. Some people seemed to think it was a race of…
(Kelly Ocock) “I need to see swaying, I need to see smiles and I need to hear laughter.” On Friday night, gospel and R&B singer Liz Vice breathed Dimnent Chapel to life with her warm, commanding and soulful voice. Opening with her own downtempo rendition of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Vice proved that her vocal…
Last Friday, Hope College’s Dimnent Chapel was filled with students and the Holland community to experience Gungor’s music. Although advertised that doors would open at 7:30 p.m., a line formed outside the chapel well before then. The crowd’s energy was high, despite the recent heat wave and Dimnent’s lack of air conditioning. Gungor consists of…
NIGHT OF PRAISE — Chapel band and students old and new gathered to worship Jesus. (Kelly Ocock) Last Monday, Hope College students banded together to kick off the beginning of the fall semester with songs and praise led by the worship bands in the Pine Grove. The annual tradition, called Groovin’ in the Grove, gave…
*This is part of The Ranchor issue of The Anchor, which is a satire edition of our student newspaper. None of this article is meant to be taken as fact.* By: Jeanae Traakip Hope College is no stranger to marriages being held in its historic Dimnent Memorial Chapel, but April 1 became a day of…
Since Bruce Benedict arrived as chaplain of worship at Hope College two and a half years ago, he has urged students to create original worship songs and has helped write EPs including “Fairer” and “The Beatitudes” over the course of the last school year. They have now begun the process of creating a new EP…
“While normal students spend their study breaks watching Netflix or napping, I venture into the winter blizzards and take advantage of the views that people sometimes miss. These were all taken during Sunday’s snowfall, the first accumulation of the year. Sometimes, it just takes some weird bends, crouches and other unbalanced positions to find the…
Band partners with Songs Against Slavery to educate and bring awareness to sex trafficking in Michigan Songs Against Slavery will be partnering with the Hope College Concert Series to host a benefit concert at Hope featuring Nashville’s Judah and the Lion on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. With its second-full-length…