Opinion
"The best part of being a professor is being able to duck out in the hall and give dirty looks. I highly recommend it as a profession."
Patrick Reynolds
Intro to Theater
The official position seems clear: from the Mennonite Confession of Faith (1995), "We believe that God intends marriage to be a covenant between one man and one woman for life. ... right sexual union takes place only within the marriage relationship." Read more...
Coming to the end of my time at EMU, I find myself feeling less and less connected to the Mennonite Church. Why do I, along with many other young people, struggle to identify with a Church firmly rooted in our background and heritage? Read more...
Eastern Mennonite University isn't as Mennonite as it used to be, and I think that's a good thing.
Before I go any further, I should qualify this by saying, I am Mennonite. Read more...
I just got back from Thanksgiving break, where I spent Thursday afternoon sharing a table with my relatives and a lot of food. We talked about the food, my post-grad plans, sports, my siblings, and hunting (my family lives in Michigan). The one thing we didn't talk about? Politics. Read more...
During our first two years on campus, we became a bit frustrated at the cost of EMU's meal plans. Initially, paying five dollars per meal (with a full meal plan) seemed somewhat reasonable. However, after weeks of eating non-stop cafeteria food, we realized how wasteful the system was for us. While the caf provided a wide variety of foods, much of the money seemed to be spent on fattier, greasier foods that many college students are attracted to. Read more...
