Since the advent of social media in the last decade, it has become easy to be engulfed by its wide web. As young people, social media is sold to us as a tool to have ourselves more connected with others and the world going on around us. For many of us, these tools quickly turn into vices, but for most, they act as devices for keeping in touch with our friends, family, or estranged high school acquaintances we’d just rather forget about all together.

The university is a place for growth, and at Trinity Western, a large component of that is intended to be growth as Christians. In our last issue an article examining the deconstructionism of the Christian faith spurred us to examine just what type of citizens TWU is producing, and how or if we as students are being developed into ‘godly Christian leaders.’

Having spent almost my entire life in Metro Vancouver, aside from a semester at the LLC and a few summers spent in the interior working at summer camps, I have seen much of the change Vancouver has gone through since receiving the Olympic bid. I remember when Vancouver first won the right to be Canada’s bid for the 2010 games – beating out Quebec City and Calgary. I was sitting in my computer class at Don Christian Elementary in Cloverdale when an announcement came over the PA system to notify all of us concerned 11-year olds. I remember letting out a gregarious eruption along with the rest of my grade 5 class.

For all the saints, who from their labors rest,
who thee by faith before the world confessed,
thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blessed.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.Micah 5:2 (KJV)

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.

When someone asks why you spend $18,000 a year on your university tuition, you’d better have a good answer.

When we use the word ‘party,’ we like the word’s blatant vagueness. The word’s range can be used to include anything from a night of unashamed debauchery to a night spent playing board games.