October 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment
On Thursday, October 6, Dr. Mike Goheen kicked off this year’s LambLight lecture series with his talk entitled “The Power of the Gospel and the Renewal of Scholarship.” Goheen focused on the intersection of faith and culture, with a particular emphasis on engaging scholarship from a faith-based perspective.
The lecture also served as Goheen’s inauguration to the Geneva Chair of Reformational Worldview Studies, formerly held by Dr. Hans Boersma. Dr. Snider and other faculty members welcomed Goheen to the position at the inaugural event. A string quintet, consisting of Goheen’s four children and daughter-in-law, performed at the event.
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Get your popcorn and Raisenets ready, because Thursday nights are movies nights in Northwest Auditorium. On October 13, Student Council started weekly movie viewing and discussion night. Faculty from various departments will be on hand at the events to encourage discussion on the topics of the films.
Last Thursday, students watched the popular movie, Hotel Rwanda. Dr. Robynne Healey gave a brief introductory lecture on the historical setting of the picture, specifically dealing with the conflict between Tutsi and Hutu tribes. After the movie Healey remarked on the aftermath of the Rwandan incident and the lack of response from the West.
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Oh, I still love the gatherings
and go to all that time allows,
but it’s hard to be a cowboy poet
if you actually own cows.
—Howard Parker, cowboy poet
and fellow Nebraskan.
Living in academic community is a major shift for many of us who worked physical jobs during the summer break. Kierkegaard and existential bewilderment replaced the tractor and hay bales that filled my summer. Observing this transition has helped me recognize the strong dichotomy between the life of the scholar and the life of the labourer. The schism is probably more drastic for some people than others, but its existence is undeniable.
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Thea Marlatte: Being a Christian and teaching at both Trinity Western University and Simon Fraser University, Dr. Monika Hilder has a unique perspective on the phenomenon of students’ apathy toward learning. I found her insight on the topic so stirring that I asked Professor Hilder if she’d be willing to share her thoughts on the subject with the wider student body. The following is her response to my concerns about TWU students’ apparent lack of interest in learning:
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Theology is shunned at Trinity Western University. We have no department of theology and only one faculty member that would be qualified to teach in such a department. Despite the fact that secular universities such as McGill offer a Bachelor’s degree in theology, Trinity Western University, one of the only Christian universities in Canada, does not. Ironically, If you want a diverse thelogical education at TWU, you will find it at the Redeemer Pacific, the Roman Catholic college on campus.
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The future of IDIS 102 is a controversial issue at Trinity Western University. Many people misunderstand the goal of the course. To set the record straight: the vision of IDIS 102 is to introduce students to what is expected of them by this university and faculty. It gives them an intellectual history of the university and a framework for the rest of their academic career. This allows students to be interdisciplinary in their thinking, even as they specialize in their respective majors.
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Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.
— Native American Proverb
The First Nations of Canada have endured great suffering and turmoil. This history left the majority of the minority in an existential identity crisis. Lost in a mix between their traditional cultural heritage and the reigning multiculturalism of present day Canada, First Nations have become alienated on their very soil. But, there is hope.
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The university, at its beginning, was an arm of the church, instructing those that were suitable for further education. There is a fundamental difference between what this education brought to the students and what post-secondary education means to us today. The medieval education centred on the discovery of one truth: the language of “the good.” This truth focused around the single goal that only the nine muses of the liberal arts could reveal: the beauty and wonder of virtue.
