Treating the Bible like an instruction manual for getting to heaven is a path toward pride and despair, said the Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller during a lecture at Hillsdale College. The Lutheran Society invited Wolfmueller — a Lutheran pastor and author of “Has American Christianity Failed?” — to speak to a crowd of 30 students and...
In the April 20th edition of the Collegian, Anders Hagstrom writes that Christians should cite facts, not scripture, to justify political policies. This is false. Hagstrom argues that citing scripture is illegitimate because it constitutes a fallacious appeal to authority: “Basic logic says that appealing to authority is a fallacy,” he writes. This is incorrect....
As a 6th grader, I got into an argument about whether a class-five tornado could move a pencil on the ground a mile away. I insisted it wouldn’t budge. My friend said it would be sucked into the vortex. Our data-free arguments hinged on the methods peculiar to 6th-grade argumentation: My older brother, a man...
Students pray in Phillips Auditorium during a missions conference held by Intervarsity and Equip Ministries. Jordyn Pair | Collegian “When most people hear the term ‘missions work,’ they immediately think of a third-world country, but what we need to realize is that a missionary can be called to serve anywhere.” Guest speaker Doug Rutledge...