Doing a sexuality issue at a Christian university seems at first quite ridiculous. The Christian understanding of sex holds that Christians are to wait until marriage to engage in sexual activity, and would thus mean young Christian university students like ourselves would really have no use for exploring the multi-faceted issue of sexuality until we are married.

Since 1987, the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have been at war. Led by Joseph Kony, the LRA began as a movement in defense of certain groups within Uganda, but quickly became corrupt. In doing so, it rapidly lost public support and resorted to abducting and indoctrinating children to build its rebel army. Since 1986, it has been estimated that over 10,000 children have been forced into combat, and more than 500,000 people have been forced to live in army-protected displacement camps as a result of the civil war. In 2001, the LRA was officially labeled a terrorist organization by the United States.

Melissa Ratel, Trinity Western University alumni will travel to Ghana for a month to work with Korle-Bu, a neuroscience foundation. With a talent for film, Ratel is looking forward to this experience. She and her colleagues are working on a documentary for the Korle-Bu Foundation called Sustaining Hope, which will release in the fall/winter of 2010 with a fall preview on CNN in late November 2010. Ratel also has a deep gratitude of knowledge from her past studies of film with Dr. Ned Vankevich and other influential professors from her studies at TWU.

Tracy Stobbe, assistant professor at Trinity Western University’s School of Business, has started a new project in conjunction with University of Victoria’s environmental lawyer Deborah Curran. The duo, which was selected out of many applicants to conduct this consulting project, will discover how to promote and sustain active agriculture in Metro Vancouver.

“…Five gospels record the life of Jesus. Four you will find in books and one you will find in the land they call holy. Read the fifth gospel and the world of the four will open to you.” (Fr. Bargil Pixner)

You can almost begin to notice the change in season with the crisp cool air, cashmere wool coats, and the hubbabaloo of festive traditions springing up here and there. The 4thannual Great West Life Spirit of Christmas Celebration will take place this year on December 4th and 5th from 4:00-9:00pm at Trinity Western University.

The Bible contains no Hebrew or Greek word that can be translated as “sexuality.” In fact, the word didn’t exist (in reference to human feelings and behaviour) until the late nineteenth century when it was used in a medical textbook. So why do our pastors love to sermonize on the subject?

I was a little hesitant signing up for a 400-level human sexuality class. A friend jokingly asked me if the Kama Sutra would be our textbook, and the only answer I had was, “I hope not.”