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Sunday, June 8, 2025
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Thank you class of 2025

By Michael Lindsay · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

​​As the weather warms and another academic year draws to a close, my heart is filled with gratitude for the remarkable ways the Lord is at work in and through Taylor. This spring's Commencement marks the end of my fourth year as president and with it, a meaningful milestone. The graduating class of 2025 is special to our family, for we have journeyed together during the Lindsays’ first four years at Taylor. It has been such a joy to walk this road together.

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Christian discernment in media

By Kenna Hartian · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

If I didn’t have some semblance of self-control, I’d eat a bar of chocolate a day. Sometimes I still do. When I was in eighth or ninth grade, my literature teacher assigned “The Bitter Side of Sweet” as our reading.

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Wisdom for seniors

By Richard Smith · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Why should graduating seniors care about the Old Testament? Any senior graduating from Taylor without an answer to this question ought to ask themselves what has gone wrong to leave them with this yawning lacuna of mind and soul. That might strike you as a nervy thing for me to say. But time is short, you are headed out the door and I am limited to 700 words. For the sake of clarity, allow me to dispense with niceties.

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If we’re honest

By Contessa Hussong · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

I am the most honest liar you could ever meet.For a long time, I tried not to think of it that way — after all, we all tend to avoid the truth from time to time. The little lies about how we are really doing, what we really think. The fibs about what we want and how we honestly feel.

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Our View: Stop beef with meat

By The Echo Editorial Board · Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Ellie Schaufelberger, a freshman at Taylor University, lifts weights and loves beef and steak. Her friends call her “quarter pounder.” She’s not falling in line with the vegans.

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Fear God, not the climate

By Kenna Hartian · Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Browse the climate section of the UN’s website, and you’ll notice a couple of things. One, climate change is supposed to be catastrophic. Two, it’s entirely humanity’s fault.

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Student Development faculty net big hugs

By Matthew Renfrow · Wednesday, May 14, 2025

I confess that I’ve felt just a bit of jealousy over the big hugs that my Student Development Faculty colleagues enjoy in one of my most favorite Taylor traditions – the graduation faculty tunnel. I am a (HUGE) “hugger” and while I do get some solid hugs in the tunnel, the unhealthy tendency to compare myself to others creeps in at times. 

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Letter to the editor: Airband over all

By Jonathan Stiver · Thursday, May 1, 2025

I’ve been hearing a lot of criticisms of Airband from my classmates and professors recently. They’ve said that students put too much time into it and they allow it to drive a wedge into friendships. I just wanted to write to The Echo to share my opinion on all of this. 

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Our View: Conflict is a Christian calling

By Editorial Board · Thursday, April 10, 2025

When it comes to real relationships, confrontation is inevitable. This is difficult, but if students at Taylor learn to express themselves and love others while having difficult and honest conversations, they can thrive in community the way God intended. 

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On-campus growth needs online foundation

By Makenna McCord · Thursday, April 10, 2025

Taylor University as an academic institution has a responsibility to address the needs of the students. This can look like making sure residence halls are clean, food at the Hodson Dining Commons is good quality, or most importantly, that classes are facilitating learning in the way that is most beneficial for the student. 

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A Christian view of AI

By Kenna Hartian · Thursday, April 10, 2025

Hundreds of people used ChatGPT to turn their favorite pictures into Studio Ghibli inspired art last month, causing X to go crazy. The usual controversy followed: was AI committing plagiarism by generating images in someone else’s style?