The temptation is always there. When discussing gender equality, it’s easy to let righteous anger in the face of injustice eclipse the call to represent Christ well, even in painful disagreement. On the other hand, we can become so concerned with unity in the body of Christ that we are silent in the face of …
When GMU double alumna Kirsten Clodfelter moved to Indiana, she wasn’t expecting to write a collection of short stories about the Middle East. “It just kind of appeared one day,” Kirsten said during a phone interview. While Kirsten may have been gifted with a flash of inspiration, an interesting web of influences began to emerge …
for ch. baudelaire Baudelaire taught me how to whittle the bones intoMaori tattoo blades; I learned which caterpillarto infect and when to kill it to get the rightpigment and that the cheeks should be carved in groovesso that men would see me and know courage, know thatI killed the albatross which sculpted my face. So, …
I walk up to the ATM and try to ignore the man babbling about lines. The first time I’d come here I thought he must be talking about drugs—coke, Adderall—perhaps he was some fearless supplicant, hoarding grimy papers in his sleeves and bartering with other local bums for a hit of reefer. But the second …
On Sept. 17, an estimated 1,000 people flooded Wall Street in what would become the first in a series of peaceful demonstrations touching over 900 cities in 82 countries. The movement, dubbed Occupy Wall Street, models itself on the Arab Spring, a wave of demonstrations marked by revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya with civil …
You are the hill with the laughing face. Beneath you lies the bridge, and beneath the bridges lies the troll. The troll has built a house beneath the bridge and it is the chimney of this house that we see. Sitting on green metal benches oddly designed to match the trash cans (voilà the chicken …
It all started one day when I decided to play the new game, The Castle of Eliv Thade. I kept thinking it was Evil Thade, and this got me to thinking, what if Eliv Thade was an anagram in itself? Well, it could be. If you flip ‘liv’ around you get ‘vil’ which put in …
PET CENTRAL – Most people refer to a Neopian as someone who has a Neopets account and plays Neopets. But why? Shouldn’t a Neopian be someone who actually makes a difference in Neopia? I’m not talking about someone who is rich. There are plenty of rich people. What about the average person, like myself, who …
I am Gondwana, but that is not my full name. I am a striped Shoyru, and I was in Maraqua on the day the whirlpool struck. Many say it was an accident, a natural disaster, but I know the truth. Many also say that no one was harmed, which only a lie everyone wishes was …
PET CENTRAL – As many of you have probably noticed, there is a Gourmet food competition going on, where if your pet eats a food with a rarity from 90 to 100, it gets a point, and once you get so many points, you get a trophy. Well, I was interested in maybe starting my …