Somewhere in early April of my freshman year, I found myself attending the 11:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Anthony’s nearly every weekend. This was not because I loved the semi-Latin liturgy. I had found a place to drink, sing, and smoke indoors on late Saturday nights. Most current Hillsdale students are too young to...
Tyler Blanski ’06 came to Hillsdale wanting to be a saint; he just didn’t know it yet. These were danger days, when the strains of Minnesota sweet-strumming evangelicalism clashing with the lo-fi screeches of Beck’s “The New Pollution” rattled around inside his head. Both were pulling him toward Christ, but he did not know how....
Although black bears haven’t been sighted in Hillsdale county in many years, locals had an opportunity to see the black bear statues sculptor Heather Tritchka ’98 is creating at her studio space at 42 Union St. The grand opening of Studio 42 Saturday afternoon featured Tritchka’s sculptures of the mother bear and the framework for...
Channeling the Upper Peninsula stereotype centered on beer, guns, and lots of flannel, the Sauk Theatre’s most recent production “Escanaba in Da Moonlight” features Hillsdale College’s own admissions counselor, Matt Sauer ’16. “I had heard of the play before being a part of the production, when I had accidentally rented the movie during middle...
Dr. Peter J. Leithart ’81 is an author and theologian as well as the president of Theopolis Institute for Biblical, Liturgical, & Cultural Studies. Leithart spoke on campus last week about the “achievement, failure, and promise” of the Reformation in the final keynote lecture of the series “This Far By Faith: The Reformation at 500.”...