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…
Feminism has a bad reputation and nearly always has. The word “feminist” brings up mental images of angry, man-hating bra-burners who are ugly, always single and al- ways mean. The simple truth is that many people don’t want to be educated on what feminism really means because they don’t want to deal with the fact…
In the past week, conflicts arose between President Trump and the NFL players from several different football who teams knelt during the national anthem. During this third week of protests, players from teams such as the Baltimore Ravens, the Pittsburgh Steelers and even the Detroit Lions linked arms and knelt for the national anthem. These…
Last week, I forced the entire Hope College community to read through my predictions for the first round of the playoffs, in the Western Conference. Instead, this week I won’t necessarily have predictions, but I will highlight certain key components, which I think would have a significant impact in the shaping up of the series,…
The only three words in existence that supersede “I love you” happen to be “NBA playoff basketball.” Thankfully, this year’s match ups show an interesting pair of dominance and high expectations, with the future of certain teams like the Los Angeles Clippers hanging by a thread. Here are my personal predictions, for the first round…
Reusing, reducing and recycling: effective actions or solely common good beliefs? In too many cases of environmental degradation, good intentions are morphed into excuses for the rapidly increasing clutter, carbon and catastrophe that plagues our growing world. In the very economic “Theory of Good Intentions,” Dr. Paul Niehaus, an economics professor at the University of…
The 2017 French presidential election cycle has been as wild of a ride as the 2016 U.S. counter-part. The French elections are held in a different method than the way we conduct them in the U.S. France has a first election comparable to the primaries and caucuses held before the U.S. general election. After the…
Donald Trump’s first week in office has been a roller coaster of emotions for the American people. With drastic changes happening in one swift move of a pen, Trump started off his presidency with a strong approach, wasting no time to prove the seriousness of his agenda. One of the most influential promises of his…
College basketball is so far living up to my expectations. Being a huge basketball fan, I have seen many crazy things throughout this year with Indiana’s shocking upset to Fort Wayne before thanksgiving break, to Michigan State’s surprising, underachieving, 2016-17 campaign. We should tip our hats to Fort Wayne for playing at home against the…
Money is a tool, or a unit of account, that is used each and every day by people all across the world to make exchanging goods and services a simple task. Without money, goods and services would be exchanged through barter, the exchange of two similarly valued products. Money, for the last few thousand years,…