Monday night, Concordia Student Government Association (SGA) passed an official position regarding the upcoming marriage amendment vote. Part of the position reads SGA “encourages a vote ‘no’ on the proposed marriage amendment taking place on November 6.” This is the first time, in known history, that SGA has adopted an official position on a political…
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Sister Act
So I wrote my first article and (giant shocker) it wasn’t about freshmen. Well here I am, a week late and ready to chat about freshmen. Can I tell you guys something? I am a junior. I get to say things like “back in my day,” or, “oh my gosh… oral comm,” and “when I…
Lazy journalism: the problem with telling both sides
All too often—during cable news interviews and throughout newspaper articles—well-intentioned commentators and journalists fool individuals with the elementary notion of representing both sides of an issue. On CNN and Fox (and other networks) two diametrically opposed guests are consistently asked to appear together, receiving questions and disagreeing with each other, selected simply because they represented…
Mission accomplished?
With the passing of Carl Bailey, the man behind Concordia’s mission statement, we are reminded of the impact Concordia’s mission statement has had on the college. We’ve heard it: “The mission of Concordia College is to send into society thoughtful and informed men and women dedicated to the Christian life.” Yet how does it impact…
The free press, not a free pass
The past two weeks have played host to freshman orientation, two speeches by interfaith leader Eboo Patel and a two-day symposium on international genocide. A brief glimpse through the pages of this week’s Concordian reveals how seriously we as students and professors accept the charge of engaging the world around us. At the Concordian, we…
Awkward: Know it when you see it
For my first article of the year I would usually do something like “aaahhh I have missed everyone,” or how no one should ever be caught with a lanyard around their neck, but I think I want to talk about something a little more dear to us. In the past few years it has become…
Embrace Love
To President Craft and the Concordia College Community, I write this letter today as a recent graduate of Concordia, adjusting to the realities of reluctant adulthood. I see the pictures of the beginning of the year and I feel like I should be there-—leading a club through those first few days and imparting what wisdom…
Interfaith and secular students
I couldn’t help but shudder when I heard Eboo Patel praise Concordia for leading the way with interfaith dialogue at this year’s Opening Convocation. His high praise (although namely attributed to the establishment of the Forum on Faith and Life and the soon-to-be chapter of his Interfaith Youth Core’s organization “Better Together”) just did not…
Sermons in Stones
What we take to be a given often turns out to be a human invention that’s been in place so long that we’ve forgotten how it came to be. Lots of examples rush to mind: the earth-centered cosmos, the assumption that women can’t do “men’s work,” or—this comes from my Pennsylvania upbringing—the grim certainty that…
The travel bug
In late 2008, I caught the travel bug. I didn’t really care about international travel until then. I was with my high school in northern Italy at a conference called World School, with students from 26 different countries gathered around the theme of food, water and safety. During my two weeks abroad —an experience entirely…