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Spring Break on Impact

Amy Reed — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:29:34 +0000

This year’s Break on Impact team went to such places as Athens, Madrid, Brussels, and Yakama Indian Reservation, located in Eastern Washington. Pictured are a team at the ruins of Corinth (Top), in Madrid, Spain (Left), and eating lunch atop Mars Hill in Athens, Greece.

It all began early on Friday, March 5. Sixteen people shivered [...]

Facilities Improves Efficiency

Keifer Wynn — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:22:46 +0000

Freshman Stephen Woody empties trash bins in Jackson Hall while working for facilities.

One of Covenant College’s most integral departments, Facilities Services, has undergone various innovations, restructurings, and personnel changes. According to Joseph Dunkin, the new head of facilities services, these changes were formulated to “improve and codify current procedures, closer management of employee time [...]

Strategic Plan: Common Language Document

Lindsay Burkholder — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:20:33 +0000

Covenant College is composing what is being called the Common Language Document, a document that will be used by all departments and offices to show Covenant’s mission and values.

“It’s really an effort to be more consistent in what all of us say about Covenant, that we’re all talking from the same script,” Jim Drexler, Chair [...]

Letters to the Editor

The Bagpipe Staff — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:17:36 +0000

Dear Editor:

Jonathan Cate, in his recent article, sees the failure of the health care bill as democracy at its best. But Democratic attempts to pass healthcare reform have been stymied by people’s realization that extending healthcare to the poor will actually cost something. Christians, who claim to be pro-life, have resisted attempts to guarantee healthcare [...]

From the Senate

Timothy Van Vliet — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:16:18 +0000

This Friday, Covenant College and the Student Senate have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Marvin Olasky. He will be addressing the student body in chapel on Friday and speaking informally with students in an afternoon session at 3:00 p.m. in the second floor of the library.

Dr. Olasky is the provost of King’s College in New [...]

Alice in Wonderland: A re-imagining by Tim Burton

Daniel Tucker — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:15:18 +0000

“This ain’t your father’s ‘Star Trek,’” advertisements boldly claimed prior to J.J. Abrams’ blockbuster this past May. That tagline kept popping into my mind while Watching Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland adaptation. Forget what Disney gave us back in 1951. The director of Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow, and Edward Scissorhands wipes the slate clean and [...]

Album Review: Joanna Newsom’s Have One on Me

Geneva Stegall — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:12:12 +0000

Singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom released her third full-length album, Have One on Me, in February.

My first listen-through of Joanna Newsom’s third official album Have One On Me left me feeling as if I had picnicked in a field of wildflowers at noontide, pedaled my vintage teal Schwinn bicycle (complete with wire basket) home to my [...]

Gorillaz Gimmick Gets Serious

Austin Humbles — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:10:45 +0000

Gorillaz has always been somewhat of a novelty. The side project of Blur frontman Damon Albarn and comic book illustrator Jamie Hewlett, the band is best known for their hit singles “Clint Eastwood” and “Feel Good, Inc.” As an “animated band,” they have relied heavily on a rotating cast of guest artists and slick music [...]

I am a Theistic Evolutionist: A closer look at evolution.

Matt Baddorf — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:08:19 +0000

Confession time: I am a theist evolutionist. When I was young, I devoured books arguing against evolution with great zeal. Repeated (and often unhappy) exposure to the other side of the debate has caused me to change my mind, however. I now think that God most likely created the biological species through macro-evolutionary processes, quite [...]

Is Covenant Becoming Emergent?

Nathan Newman — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:02:56 +0000

I recently read Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck’s book Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be. This book should not only make us smile, but should kick us in the shins, too! After reading it, I couldn’t help but think, “Is Covenant becoming ‘emergent’?”

According to Kevin DeYoung, you might be emergent if [...]