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If Jesus is our example, then we must take an honest look at how he lived his life and how he interacted with all types of people. Some people have a misshapen identity of Jesus, believing that he was this metrosexual hippie who lived his life being controversial, while offering a few enlightening insights. They believe that Jesus never said an unkind word to anyone, and that in general he was just a really soft guy. This is simply untrue, Jesus said many unkind words to people and ultimately this is why they killed him. Jesus’s approach to people was much different than most contemporary evangelicals. He told one church leader that “you convert one person and they are twice the son of hell that you are.” (Matthew 23:15)
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Do you remember the first time you ever stepped foot onto the Trinity Western campus? Do you remember that initial anxiety as suddenly it dawned on you: Holy cow. I’m a university student? Remember the weirdness of moving in with someone you didn’t know, sharing space with people you’d just met, and having to deal with other people’s habits, paradigms, and odors? And yet, despite the fear and anxiety, do you remember that excitement you felt when you realized for the first time that mom and dad weren’t in the room next door, that there were no curfews, and no one to look over your shoulder? Every choice you had to make was now completely, solely, and absolutely up to you. Remember all the programs, all the events, all the opportunities you learned about during O-Week? It seemed like there were literally a million different things going on in this brand new world, a million different ways to get involved, to have voice, to affect change.
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In the year 2020, I would like to see less prejudice and more tolerance to those who have differences, be they differences of gender, colour, race, belief, area of study, or pizza toppings. The fact that this is a Christian university doesn’t automatically eliminate feelings of bigotry. But more than mere tolerance (an ugly word which connotes more condescension than anything else), I would like to see more genuine interest and desire in expanding the borders of our minds and friendships and an eradication of the “us and them” mentality.
- Yolanda Kornelson
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When my father was an undergrad at the University of Saskatchewan he wrote a piece for the student newspaper, The Sheaf, entitled “The joys of marriage.” It was immediately replaced with a piece called “The joys of masturbation.” It appears not much has changed since 1978.
