The Psalmist writes, “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). In a recent Zoom talk hosted by the Natural Sciences division, biologist Sean Carroll, vice president of science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, pointed out the extraordinary role played by chance — tiny chances — in human development,...
The year was 258 A.D. and St. Lawrence was condemned to a slow, agonizing death by the prefect of Rome. He was roasted alive: tied above a grill and slowly spun over a fire. But his devotion to his faith made him hardly able to feel the flames, and he reportedly joked, “Turn me over,...
Picture this: it’s a Monday morning at Hillsdale College and you are walking from Mossey Library where you’ve just printed a paper for your first class of the day. As you walk under the colonnade towards Lane Hall, you pass approximately 15 people. You smile at a handful, enthusiastically greet a couple, and awkwardly divert...
Softball is better than baseball. It isn’t even a close call. After working all the way up from T-ball to captain of a NCAA Division II softball team, I have come to this conclusion through hard-won experience. The sports look a lot alike to the casual observer, but true sports fans will appreciate the factors...
A fifth-grade social-studies teacher in Philadelphia recently forced students to celebrate Black History Month by honoring “black communism” and Angela Davis, a communist activist and former Black Panther. The news created a stir on social media but should come as no surprise to those who have followed the radical agenda infecting every level of America’s...