In honor of national child abuse prevention month, the sheriff’s department and the Hillsdale branch of Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness held a rally at noon Wednesday on the courthouse lawn. Surrounded by the blue pinwheels that are the symbols of the movement, speakers from law enforcement, the prosecutor’s office, and around 20 community...
Author: Hannah Niemeier (Hannah Niemeier)
Christian romance novel may not be art. It might just be Christian.
She is a lover of art, a divorcee, a bleeding heart, a sojourner in Rome. He is an Italian, a kindred spirit, a lover of ancient art and aged wine. They fall in love — with each other and with the timeless beauty of the ancient city that brought them together. This is a novel...
After Syria strikes, Muslims commited to interfaith dialogue
DEARBORN, Mich. — Half an hour outside the largest mosque in North America, I thought about turning around. There was a problem with my hair. I was on my way to the 11th annual Interfaith Prayer Breakfast at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, when another Hillsdale College student called me. She had...
Eleonore Stump and the problem of pain
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” It’s a good question, and philosopher Eleonore Stump thinks we misread God’s answer to Job’s questioning of his goodness. We often say, with Job’s friends, that God tells him to sit down and stop asking questions: “Just,” stoic Christian soldiers say, “suffer. Faith is...
Meaning in Marilynne Robinson’s metaphors
Last week, in a heroic money-saving venture, a University of Wisconsin campus proposed the sacrifice of 13 college majors, mostly in the humanities. The Washington Post heard echoes of Governor Scott Walker’s ill-conceived and ill-fated 2015 plan to shift the mission statements of the university system from the “search for truth” to meeting “the state’s...