Growing up, I was always fascinated by Christianity and the relationship that people were capable of having with God. People at church would always use cryptic, vague language when talking about their relationship with God. I was particularly curious about the phenomenon of prayer and being able to “speak” with God. I didn’t know where His voice would come from and what His voice would sound like. Infuriatingly, the best information I could gain from adults was that whenever God spoke, it … [Read more...]

A few years ago, during my freshman year, there were two seniors from the psychology department who presented their project to people in the Fair Commons lobby. I don’t remember the exact words they used, but the general idea of their presentation was “Where do you find your worth?” They spoke about different things that give people a sense of worth and purpose: grades, athletic ability,  relationships, etc. and how all of these things are unstable in some way: you can perform poorly on a test, … [Read more...]

Let’s face it, we’re not perfect. None of us are. Not even here in what some like to call the “Anderson bubble.” We’re a bunch of flawed and imperfect people who step on each other’s toes and insult each other all the time. In the timespan of about one week, we’ve had a forum to discuss the LGBTQ community and related issues, an act of racial aggression in the form of revolting speech, as well as a bomb threat that took place on the same day that we had a Muslim guest-speaker in chapel, It … [Read more...]