Self-reflection and inner reformation are essential to the fruitful Christian life. “In antiquity, the Latin noun reformatio referred to the changing of a bad present situation by returning to the good and better times of the past,” notes a recent Vatican letter from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. This letter recalls the Reformation’s...
Month: October 2014
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Capital poetry
Dear Sen. Bruce Caswell, I have noticed an unfortunate trend in modern poetry toward what people call “free verse”: Poetry that is written without meter. I would like to discuss why I find this trend disturbing and what I hope you and others will do about it. To begin, the term “free verse” is in...
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Prevailing wage: Prevailing folly
Imagine your computer is in need of repair, but you are forbidden from finding the cheapest, highest-quality technician possible. Instead, state law requires you to wade through bureaucratic paperwork and forces you to pay the technician far more than the market price. Though such a law would sound ludicrous, this is exactly what state law...
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Crumbling roads cause concern as winter approaches
This is the first part of a two part feature on roads. Pick up next week’s Collegian to find part 2 of this story in which city government’s current plans to finance road funding and its plans to fight the upcoming winter will be explained. Freeze and thaw is fast approaching. But last winter’s road...
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Hillsdale’s Prince
Former Blackwater CEO left the Naval Academy for the more principled academics of Hillsdale, served the community as a firefighter, loved learning. In 1989, when student Erik Prince of Holland, Michigan moved in across the street from Professor of Religion Don Westblade, he and his wife mistakenly believed Prince was a wealthy European descending from...