Opinions

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

Redefining the modern woman

Video games are a budding art form that should not be overlooked

Our View: Student-athlete meal options fall short of the mark

Pranking away the fun

Should you watch that movie?

Our View: Celebrating found family

Responding to Israel and Hamas

Be a steward of God’s creation

Our View: Approach leaders

A matter of grit

Should we remove the letter “Q”?

Najar: Not so green energy in EVs