I have to admit that when Ron Paul formally declared his candidacy for the 2008 Republican nomination back in March 2007, I had no clue who this guy was or how much of a sensation he was going to be. My impression of the Congressman from Texas was that he was a relatively minor sensation [...]

Spiritual life in people moves like flame: it can either flicker and die out, flicker to a sputter that only later lights up, or flicker and ignite like wildfire. Either way, it all starts with that initial spark. Wabash may be a wet campus (more like saturated), but in the spiritual sense it sits as [...]

Picture this: Your bladder is full and you are madly running around in search of the men’s room. You stumble into a hallway and find ten restrooms—six that are co-ed and four that are for girls only. Which one would you use? Well, I’d hope that you searched until you found of one the last [...]

On November 13, 1969, then-Vice President Spiro Agnew stood before a crowd of fellow Republicans in Des Moines, Iowa, and lambasted one of the most persistent political enemies of the Nixon administration — the press corps. President Nixon had just delivered an important address on the war in Vietnam, and Agnew felt that the [...]

by Sean Clerget ‘09
A USA Today article this past June told the sad story of a Cincinnati suburban couple, forced to alter a small part of their routine because of rising gas prices. In order to save money they had to commute into the city for work together! In one car! The article lamented that [...]

Barack-fever. Hussein-hysteria. Obama-mania. It doesn’t matter what you call it, there is no denying that Barack Obama has a massive, obsessive following in the lead up to the November elections.
While the Illinois Senator has less than four years under his belt in the U.S. Senate, he has already accomplished something that very few thought [...]

As John McCain sealed the Republican nomination for President of the United States, conservatives from nearly every part of the Republican Party were upset. Religious conservatives pointed to McCain’s “agents of intolerance” remark; supply-siders lamented McCain’s initial votes against the Bush tax cuts; paleoconservatives saw McCain as a war-monger; and immigration hawks balked at [...]

Christians believe that God became human in Jesus Christ. If so, it follows that there is something called humanity. That is, humans have a nature, a shared or common nature. Human nature is not just a social construction. Human nature is real. And if it is real, then it is the same everywhere and at [...]

In August 2007, I made the five hour trek from Madison, Wisconsin, on down to the metropolis of Crawfordsville, Indiana. After a summer of work, I was looking forward to getting started with college. I was looking forward to the freedom – personal and academic. The courses were going to be interesting. I’d heard rave [...]