Alcohol. Disco. Communism. These are the spirits haunting your amnesia-addled brain as you awaken in your thrashed hostel bedroom. You are a detective… maybe. You can’t remember. Come to think …
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David Gushee on Democracy and Christianity
On February 6, EMU hosted Dr. David Gushee, an acclaimed pastor, author, and Christian ethicist, as a part of a speaking tour that coincides with the release of his newest …
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Is This It…
… is the debut album from the now-prestigious New York rock band, The Strokes. Its release to North American audiences in October 2001 was met with swathes of unprecedented acclaim—a …
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Review: The Music of Townes Van Zandt
On New Year’s Day, 1997, Townes Van Zandt passed away in the hospital at the age of 52. This passing January marks 27 years since his passing, and mercy: what …
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EMU Prepares For New Title IX Legislation
In 2020, the newly-inaugurated Biden administration expressed a desire to overhaul Title IX, the federal legislation that forms the basis of how Higher Ed institutions handle issues of sexual discrimination …
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Social Media, The Internet, and Palestine
Last fall, I wrote an article about the then-escalating tensions between the state of Israel and the Palestinian people. In that piece, I critiqued the “both sides are equally bad!” …
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I Really, *Really* Don’t Want to Vote for Joe Biden
During the 2020 election season, I made a silent prayer to myself; it went something like: “Please, for the love of God, let this be the worst election I ever …
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The Music of Common Grounds (and the Drinks to Go With It!)
I’ve invented a small game that I play whenever I visit Common Grounds; I listen closely to the music seeping through the speakers of the coffee house, and I try …
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Eastern Mennonite Has a Title IX Problem
As the 2024 presidential election looms ever closer, one of Biden’s flagship campaign promises remains unfulfilled and precarious; an overhaul of the long-since-gutted Title IX system in the United States. …
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Halloween is Dead: and America Killed It!
Every December, during a slow news week, conservative talking heads will air their woes regarding social secularization and America’s increasing trend toward atheism. They’ll do this in talk-show segments they’ve …