If Christian Wiman’s life story is a journey, then “Once in the West” is the road map, drawn in a riot of color that seems to take on a life of its own. The poems rush by like signposts on the roadside in a blast of blurring imagery and syntax: “icequiet,” “stabdazzling,” “flashlit,” “slaughterhospice,”...
After several trips to the Hillsdale emergency room ended the 2015 Naval Battle, Cravats and Blue Stockings is implementing a new set of rules to better protect participants in the heat of combat. The club created weapons regulations, limiting participants to pool noodles. Mandatory shoes, uniform team armbands, and standardized ship materials are also among...
Named “Alithea,” the Greek word meaning “truth,” the club will hold lecture series to deepen theological discussion on campus, said sophomore Katarina Bradford, Alithea president. The club will bring Christian speakers to campus to discuss the arguments and implications of the Christian worldview, which Student Fed members said they think will be a valuable resource...
The silence of God can be suffocating. The modern God, whom Wiman refers to as his “Bright Abyss,” is not an unquestioned cornerstone. We find ourselves bereft of a habitually stated vision of God. No longer do we have the rituals or rhythms to spiritually cope with tragedies, the death of a daughter, a diagnosis...
The scariest part of the future of terrorism, lecturer James Carafano said, is that he has no idea what it will look like. “Today, there are more terrorists worldwide than there were in 2008,” he said. “There are more deaths from terrorism. There are more terrorist plots against the United States. We’re at this place...