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It’s that time of the year again: when exams and papers and Christmas hangs over your head in one very unattractive lump. If you look to your roommate, he or she may also be experiencing this large wad of candy canes, flash cards, and coffee grounds also floating over his or her head. However, I’m here to suggest some new ways of coping with stress and your roommate’s stress simultaneously. These techniques may be considered unusual to some, but nevertheless, I believe them to be helpful in the long run.
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December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Stainglass Window Cookies
by Fern
1/4 lb margarine
12 oz chocolate chips
12 oz colored mini marshmallows
1. Melt margarine and chocolate together
2. Once cooled slightly, mix in marshmallows (don’t melt them though)
3. Mold the whole glob on a sheet of wax paper so it’s like a log and wrap it tightly.
4. Put it in the refrigerator overnight.
5. Unwrap it and cut it into slices. The slices will look like stainglass.
Super easy PB cookies
By Jill (actually Marie Wildasin)
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup peanut butter (crunchy or otherwise)
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December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
To Lauren Thompson:
You might not know me, my name is Christian. We have cartography class together. Every time I walk into class I am astounded by your perfect palette. During the Christmas Season, we should break out in choreographed song and dance… Just a thought. We could exchange news stories the next time we see each other, then we can go to my bat cave. We could totally play scrabble together while watching Newsies. Maybe later we could go find a rooftop and listen to the Shins. Your way of using colour language inspires me to read dictionaries the rest of the holiday season. My parents would seriously swoon over you. Take care and stay sweet,
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November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The term “friends-with-benefits” sounds like a phone plan rather than a type of relationship. Frankly, the analogy seems to work through and through. These days, how we choose to conduct ourselves relationally, or sexually, is considered in much the same way we choose the right phone plan for us. When birth control first appeared on the scene there was great concern, among some, about the consequences of separating what were formerly inextricably linked activities: having sex and making babies. That conceptual severing was but the beginning of the fragmentation we see today.
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November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
On November 5, I found myself, along with approximately 100 other Trinity Western University students, inside the Fort Langley Community Hall. No, we weren’t going over appropriations for another unsightly subdivision; it was the Sadie Hawkins Dance.
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November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Over the years there has been a lot written in Mars’ Hill regarding the subject of homosexuality: should it be condoned by Christians, should gay marriage be legal, etc. Bible verses are quoted, theories are put forth and evidence displayed all at a happy distance from the author who writes, somehow as an expert, on a subject that has not personally affected him or her. I find these articles ultimately unsatisfying. They are too clinical, too academic and too argumentative. For me this is not theory, it’s personal.
There is a power in the simplest everyday actions that can change an attitude, an outlook, even a life. Many of you have traveled to far off places and seen the horrors and the sadness present in so much of the world. Some of you have even written articles about your experiences and how they changed you. Mission trips can open our eyes to the needs of others and to the ways many people live, often with very little and in extreme conditions. It breaks our hearts and drives us to change the world, for a little while. Often, however, when we come back we return to our complacency and our habitual apathy and numbness strip us of the passions that were stirred.