Almost a quarter of the way through the NHL season the storylines are beginning to fall into place. A few months ago, everyone believed the NHL’s new buzzword—parity—was going to level the playing field. But what has been learned in the first 20 games is that there is no such a thing as an even slate. Here are some of the biggest surprises, disappointments and performers of the new season.

Congratulations to our men’s soccer team – Canada West Champions and CIS bronze medalists. On Saturday, November 5, the Spartan men’s soccer team battled with the UBC Thunderbirds and came out on top as Canada West Champions with a 2-1 victory. The title is the first for a Trinity men’s team and the second title in the school’s seven-year Canadian Interuniversity Sport history. The other title belongs to our ladies’ soccer team, who won us the Canada West title on their way to being crowned national champs last year.

Every place seems to have a sport. Canada has hockey, the U.S. has baseball, Brazil has soccer, and Alabama has spitting tobacco into tin cans. Thinking about this made me realize that there must be places on Earth that enjoy much different sports than we are accustomed to. After much gruelling research I developed a list of the top ten weird sports. These sports are all real, and, frankly, pretty cool.

Many of you know Dale Baumgartner of Rec Services. He is the man with the infamous moustache in the Doug-Out, fearlessly leading a team of students in pursuing recreational activities and friendships.

Associate Professor of philosophy, Dr. Bob Doede, has a passion. He seeks to awaken the Christian sleepwalker into a deeper self-awareness of the heroic and tragic possibilities of being in the world. God, alienation, death, and authentic and inauthentic modes of living – existentialism calls into question the meaning, nature and predicament of our contingent existence. Discrimination, oppression, silencing of a whole sector of humanity – feminism illuminates the sexual inequality prevalent in our culture. In this interview, Dr. Doede illustrates the value of philosophical inquiry.

Since the advent of the “Turabian” style of document formatting in 1969, there have been myriad questions as to the origin of its style, which is very similar to the Chicago documentation style. In fact, some books and peer-reviewed web pages refer to them as the same. However, there has not been a definitive answer until recently. With the declassification of documents released under the freedom of information clause in the Constitution of the United States, new information has become available.

Our culture is losing its ability to decipher how technology is infiltrating and constructing the world around us. Our ability to create and predict, guided by our stance towards nature, allows us to “advance” in ways we never thought possible. Think about it: our technological progression in the last 40 or 50 years is exponential. Everyone walks around with cell phones or PDA’s—instantaneous communication, quick jet flights, iTunes music downloads, etc. Not many people, however, take time to seriously question what this means for society.

Whenever we read the Bible, we choose to use a specific method of interpretation; consciously or unconsciously we make a choice as to how we are going to find meaning from the letters on the page.
In scholarly circles, various methods are competing to be seen as the way to interpret scripture, or least one of many legitimate ways. Whatever method we choose, be it passively or critically, that method directly affects how we interpret scripture. All methods of interpretation contain presuppositions about the world and these presuppositions find their way into the result. This is why everyone who reads the Bible needs to be very concerned with what method they choose; no one who believes the Bible contains truth should let this decision go unexamined. As a Biblical Studies major, I’m confronted with this question daily. In an effort to help others think about this question and possibly even make a decision themselves, this is what I’ve found when I tried to answer this question.