By Emily Lehman The beginning of Daylight Savings Time left me meditating sleepily on what “time” means in modern America. What does it mean to “save daylight,” exactly? Do we have daylight to save? More importantly, do we save any by a perverse practice of waking up an hour earlier once a year? The answer to the last question is no. The answers to the … Continue reading The Future Doesn’t Exist (And Why You Think It Does)
By Noah Weinrich REYKJAVIK, ICELAND—In order to prevent food pilfering, wastage, embezzlement, and other felonious offenses in the dining hall, Budget On-Campus Nutrition Executives, the dining providers at Iceland Community College, have announced a plan to implement stricter controls on dining hall traffic. The comprehensive security measures will be put in place at the beginning of the Fall 2016 semester. BONE has already announced their … Continue reading Satire: “The Bone” to Tighten Food Security
By Mark Naida I closed the hymnal. While the parishioners around me sang an unobjectionable hymn after communion, I tried to pray. The words came quietly as they slipped through the interlaced fingers that held my bowed head—“Been traveling these wide roads for so long / my heart’s been far from you.” I could feel my heart beating. I could feel the baptismal font pulsing … Continue reading A Heartening: The Unrecognized Christian Vision of Leon Bridges
By Timothy Troutner At least from ancient times up to a certain time in the [Japanese] medieval period, there was a boundary beyond which humans should not enter. Within this boundary was our territory, so we ruled it as the humans’ world with our rules, but beyond this road, we couldn’t do anything even if a crime had been committed, since it was no longer … Continue reading Finding a Home in the Enchanted Forest: Hayao Miyazaki’s Humane Environmentalism
If our own experience is typical, the sudden waking up of the outdoor world is scattering your thoughts, making you think of elsewhere and elsewhen. Snapping in and out of campus’s collective flashback to Commencement season, you stop in your tracks between classroom buildings and run a glance across the scrubby grass and still-grey trees; your thoughts flick to the past, to the future, back … Continue reading Letter from the Editors, March 2016
by Stacey Egger It was Christmas break, and I was out in the wide world—specifically, driving down a Saint Louis street with a close friend. I asked if she wanted to stop by a certain store on the way home. “Oh, shoot,” she replied, “I don’t have my earbuds. I can’t listen to the music they play in there.” The compulsion to drown out the … Continue reading Taste & Community: Part One of Two
by Timothy Troutner We’ve all seen them – the freshmen matching wits over “predestination vs. free will” or “Catholicism vs. Protestantism,” testing their newfound powers across Saga tables or late into the night in the student union. Like sparring adolescent mountain goats, their youthful energy and inexperience predominate. In these poorly delineated arenas, many a straw man is born into the world, … Continue reading Dialogue and Difference: Ecumenical Encounters at Hillsdale
by Mark Naida I “The man gazed at the television. He finished his drink and started another.” – Raymond Carver, “Why Don’t You Dance?” In Dearborn, Michigan, there is a theme park for historians. Or more properly, a park full of old things – things to stare at, trinkets to buy, and elderly docents all too willing to dispense stories from their vaults … Continue reading Tangibility and the New Place of the Artist
by Birch Smith The history of the West for the last two hundred or so years is intricately tied up with the history of capitalism, and is thus in important ways a history of sharp disagreements. As far back as the Industrial Revolution, voices have been raised in criticism of some aspect or other of the capitalistic system. These criticisms, however, have almost universally tended … Continue reading Capitalism & Community: We Need Both
by Minte Irmer Once upon a time, I was a freshman. Everyone goes through that stage. Some have it worse, some have it better, but at the crossroads of life, I accidentally took the shortcut towards Capital-A Adulthood. If you don’t know what a Capital-A Adult is, you probably are one. I hate to say it, but you people are the worst. I simultaneously fear … Continue reading Bildungsroman
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