The transition to college is very difficult for incoming freshmen in more ways than can be counted. To begin, you are separated from your family and friends, living in a new place, eating different food, meeting new people, and to top it all off, you are a student at Wabash College. If you have not [...]

April 24, 2009 – 4:15 p.m.
Baxter Hall 101
Dr. Peter Kreeft presented his lecture titled “A Refutation of Moral Relativism” on Friday, April 24, 2009 in Baxter 101. The lecture, co-sponsored by the Wabash Conservative Union, the Newman Center, and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, was a great success. Dr. Kreeft regaled the crowd with his insights [...]

Francisco Ayala is a dream for religious individuals who want to be able to believe in both God and science, and especially evolution. He graduated from a Catholic seminary, went on to graduate from Columbia University, and now teaches biology at the University of California, Irvine. He is touted as a religious man who can champion evolution without batting an eyelash. But as one student remarked after listening to Ayala speak during his visit to campus in March, the biologist’s faith is in God but his religion is science.

Writing about one’s mentor is a risky task. When you owe so much to somebody there is always the danger that you might subconsciously want to discount your debt in order to minimize the burden of its payment. Inspecting any relationship of dependence is fraught with the temptation of resentment and envy, but the opposite [...]

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 [...]