Colorful spotlights brightening the room and hands raised in prayer means another Wednesday night at The Well, a Christian community for the young adults of Hillsdale. In 2021, soon after graduating from Hillsdale himself, Braden VanDyke felt God tugging on his heart to return to his college town. VanDyke had the vision to create a...
Year: 2022
The Red Wings will be the next team to make the playoffs
After finishing 7th in the Atlantic Division in 2016, the Detroit Red Wings ended their streak of making the playoffs for 25 consecutive years–a period during which they won three Stanley Cup championships–and began what has become a six-year playoff drought. Now the “Yzerplan” of Red Wings, legend and current General Manager Steve Yzerman, is...
State education department promotes gender ideology
The Michigan Department of Education is promoting gender “fluidity” and transgenderism without parental consent starting in elementary school, according to a new report from Chris Rufo, who was the college’s Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow last spring. In a City Journal article published Sept. 14, Rufo exposed a series of training videos and documents...
COVID-19 funding should go to education not vaccines
While the rate of infection and deaths due to COVID-19 is steadily decreasing, the rate of poor reading comprehension and failed mathematical performance is on the rise. Instead of funding annual COVID-19 vaccines, our money should be used to defend and support education. On Sept. 1, The National Center for Education Statistics reported a five-point...
Proposition 1: Term limits encourage integrity
Politicians are corrupt. There, I said what we were thinking. And that’s why Michigan voters should approve Proposal 1 in November. If approved, the constitutional amendment would limit lawmakers to a total of 12 years of service in either chamber of the state legislature. Right now, Michigan legislators can serve as many as 14 years;...



