January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Over the holiday season, I wanted to catch an evening showing of Casino Royale, but my cousin had the deciding word. Instead, we saw Blood Diamond, a graphic look at one of many social tragedies in Africa. The film was moving, but what had the greater impact was how it reminded me of personal memories of the continent.
In February, 2003, I went on an 18-day missions trip to Malawi, one of the world’s highest AIDS-infected countries. We worked with orphans in various locations. The reality of poverty and loss struck me in Chimbalame, a village outside of the capital city.
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January 23, 2007 | 2 Comments
My car is a beater. It’s a sickly shade of a colour I haven’t yet been able to name; it’s got rust all along the sides and no front grill. Some cold days it doesn’t start, and if you don’t warm it up for at least 15 minutes it makes this shrill shrieking sound for the rest of the day.
I recently had a new CD player installed, because up until then it had a giant gap where the radio should have been. Unfortunately, the CD player was installed incorrectly, drained my battery, somehow affected my heat and cost me $130 in damage. I now drive places with no heat, with the windows fogging up, in absolute silence praying that no one rams into me.
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January 23, 2007 | 5 Comments
In the philosophical and parliamentary debate regarding the initial legalization of gay marriage, a peculiar thing happened: liberals managed to shift the burden of proof to those who oppose the change.
Liberals (in the philosophical, but not necessarily political, sense), flying in the face of thousands of years of tradition, didn’t need to show that this proposed change would be beneficial for society. Rather, conservatives were forced to demonstrate that not changing the definition of marriage is necessary for the good of children and the good of society.
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January 23, 2007 | 1 Comment
When you speak to another person, how do you know that what they hear and think is the same thing that you intended it to be?
At first, this might seem like a silly question, but when two people with two very different personal histories have a conversation, how is one to know that the other truly understands what the first is saying? w, a pivotal figure in twentieth-century philosophy, has much to say on this issue, and what he says has some interesting import for Christian life.
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January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It would make life extremely difficult and tedious if we were to question the true, denotative meaning of every word we use. Using language is inescapable, and throughout the many words we use to signify certain meanings, it seems that we rarely pay attention, or even consider, what the words we use actually mean. Yet certain words mean much more than we commonly suppose, and they can have the ability to reveal an entirely profound meaning.
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January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Earlier this year, Dr. Holly Nelson, Dr. Alma Barranco-Mendoza, Dr. Robynne Healey, and Dr. Christina Belcher realized they had a common passion: to bring Trinity Western University into the dialogue surrounding issues of gender and identity.
To help achieve this goal, these professors are in the process of establishing a Gender Studies Society that will foster both student and faculty involvement and understanding of the gender discussion.
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January 23, 2007 | 1 Comment
No-shave November has been a treasured tradition at Trinity Western University for over five years now. We all know the story. Once a year the males throw away their razors and embrace one of the most fabulous things about being in college: the ability to let grow whatever you want.
This year, after much pondering, and to the dismay of my fiancé, I decided that I would participate in the masculine game of growth. Why couldn’t a girl throw away her razors, waxes, tweezers and depilatory creams and let her hair grow out like a guy? I decided to be the first woman in TWU’s history to do No-shave November. That’s right, hairy legs, armpits and all. I was going to make history! The feminists would be so proud.
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January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
There comes a point in every man’s life when he must ask himself an extremely important question: am I gay?
Fortunately, I asked myself this question when I was 15, which has allowed me to live a long, rich, definitively heterosexual life. But a heterosexual man doesn’t have to venture into the realm of homosexuality in order to appreciate a member of the same sex on a more than platonic level—far from it.
