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Professor releases collection of Thomas More’s works
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Professor releases collection of Thomas More’s works

A multi-decade adventure that included standing in the jail cell of a martyr, holding a prayer book from the sixteenth century, and journeying through foreign countries has culminated in a groundbreaking new text. Professor of English Stephen Smith co-edited a newly released book, “The Essential Works of Thomas More,” with Gerard Wegemer, professor of English...

Use makeup to reflect human nature: Celebrities, influencers use social media to push beauty products, trends that reflect false reality
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Use makeup to reflect human nature: Celebrities, influencers use social media to push beauty products, trends that reflect false reality

Though we often talk about the unrealistic standards set by the beauty industry, one may not have expected the next step in the beautifying process would be giving up our own blood cells. Known as a “vampire facial,” the doctor will draw your blood, extract the platelet-rich plasma, and apply it topically. Kim Kardashian is...

County receives $2.6M for road maintenance
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County receives $2.6M for road maintenance

The Michigan Department of Transportation gave  Hillsdale County $2.6 million in funding for various road projects in 2020. Funding from MDOT, which was announced last fall, will go toward several portions of M-49 and M-99. According to Kelby Wallace, manager at MDOT’s Jackson Transportation Service Center, his office has not set a construction schedule yet....

Core and conversation inspire Catholic conversion at Hillsdale
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Core and conversation inspire Catholic conversion at Hillsdale

At a college where more than 90% of students actively practice a religion and where debates about transubstantiation versus consubstantiation, the significance of Christ’s incarnation, and, most contentiously, Mary’s perpetual virginity echo through the halls, Catholicism seems to be gaining new ground.  Between 2016 and 2019, 76 people converted to Catholicism at St. Anthony of...