Opinions

Our View: Nothing is perfect

More clicks aren’t always a good thing.

Our View: Consistent Advising

It’s advising season again.

The struggle continues

Asking for help is never easy.

Our View: Alumni embrace TU

For many students, the transition from Taylor to postgraduate life is a stressful and difficult period of time.

It’s Earth Day. So what?

The eclipse has passed, Airband is silent, and now it is Monday…Earth Day. Who cares?

Transfers: Overlooked students

Stop treating transfers as freshmen.

Our View: Journey of integration

Humans are natural learners. Acknowledged or not, everyone dabbles in music and math — appreciates daylight and a building that doesn’t collapse. In order to appreciate those things, however, you don’t need to be a musician, mathematician, environmental scientist or architect. We are free to enjoy the world just as it is.

Rest in the Lord: Learning to delight in God’s presence and peace

“Rest in the Lord.” We’ve heard these words a thousand times before, whether it’s from the pulpit on a Sunday morning or in a pre-class devotional as we’re fighting desperately to stay awake. 

Reflections from a (mostly) former chapel skipper

My friend Francis has participated in well over 98,000 chapels. His intentional community in California (St. Andrews Abbey, Los Angeles) takes discipleship seriously. Francis’ participation in chapel five times a day for over 50 years has made him a different kind of human being — one marked by a beautiful, deep peace and joy (Psalm 92:14).

The Great Commission: ‘Go and make disciples’

Generation Z is the least religious generation in American history, according to Ryan P. Burge’s analysis of the 2022 Cooperative Election Study.

The eclipse and God’s beautiful creation

In a few short weeks, we will witness one of the most awe-inspiring events we have ever seen. On that day, the moon, a celestial object having roughly the diameter of the United States, will pass directly between us and the sun. In doing so, it will plunge us into shadow.

Reality of the resurrection

“Why do people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?” (Acts 26:8). The question strikes us today as naïve, just as it must have struck Porcius Festus and Herod Agrippa II in the original context. Paul can’t be serious. For realists, the resurrection is fiction. People think the resurrection’s unbelievable because it is unbelievable! 

Our View: Academic necessities

Would you turn down the opportunity to seek support from qualified professionals? The services that Taylor University provides, such as the Writing Center and the Academic Enrichment Center, are incredibly valuable.

Gospel according to slang

“Father, into your dms I slide my spirit.” This is how “The Gospel by Gen Z” renders Christ’s famous last words on the cross as found in Luke 23:46. It uses the colloquial abbreviation for “direct messages” in place of “hands.”

Intercultural communication

There are several trends in intercultural communication education in many universities. One model favors experiential learning, while the other focuses on addressing inequities of various kinds. Each of these makes its own worthwhile contribution to intercultural learning, but here at Taylor, there is a way to do even more.

Christian obedience?

Often we think of godly obedience as a product of self effort. Submission to the Lord typically doesn’t look or feel the way we would expect. We expect the natural energy and joy to read our Bible, sing hymns and repent. However, God doesn’t promise the motivation to do those things.

Our View: Pursuing informed action

Much of the information we ingest as students comes through a grapevine of communication: the friend who heard from a friend who works in Admissions, or the friend who happened to overhear a conversation that sparked their curiosity, or the friend whose professor mentioned something offhand in class the other day.

5 Things Journalism Can Offer

So, you want to be a novelist — or perhaps you’re hoping to be the next great manuscript editor or literary agent. Why should you take a journalism course?

Did you pay for that?

Cookies and fruit cups — these are just a few of the items from the LaRita Boren Campus Center that were placed into paper bags without being paid for last semester.

Hospitality rides away