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Given the current cultural crisis of AI, the PCA 53rd General Assembly assembled an Ad Interim Study Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Composed of four teaching elders and three ruling elders from churches all across the country, this committee will spend the next 2-3 years assembling guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence in PCA churches.
They came from beyond. They came out of nowhere. We’ve seen the signs. Or we’ve walked straight into them and tried unsuccessfully to remove their webs from our faces.
The Hudson River School was a group of painters that came out of the Hudson River Valley, New York, in the mid-19th century. Their work is characterized by light- based composition and plein air painting. Their subject material is often related to the pastoral mountains and valleys of the American wild.
Standing under the cool moonlight surrounded by warm, sweating bodies, I handed over my phone to a stranger. A second later, it was handed back to me in a Yondr pouch, a small container that sealed my phone and made it unusable. I thanked the security guard and continued inside as the venue began to pulse with the power of speakers and the anticipation of hundreds of fans.
This is, without a doubt, the greatest Bagpipe article you will ever read. Now, let’s talk about a problem all of you face: pride. Indulge in my abounding wisdom. (I’m joking around. How does one write about pride without some irony?)
It’s no surprise that the topic of celebrating Christmas early is hotly debated. Some people hold tight to strictly celebrating it after Thanksgiving, while others feel the holiday joy way before the season starts. While I agree that we should celebrate things in their proper season, there’s more to the Christmas season than just celebrating a commercial holiday.
Picture this: It’s 7:59 AM and you’re late for class. Somehow, you were able to peel yourself up and out of bed only to realize that you don’t have time to get breakfast. If you did, the only thing you’d get from walking into class that morning would be blank stares from your classmates and an absence on the attendance record that feels like a blowdart to the neck.
As has been noted in the first issue of the Bagpipe, college football is still chaotic. So chaotic, in fact, that no one is really in charge.
This summer, cross country runners braved early morning runs in hot weather, fierce humidity, and long and often lonely miles. This was my fourth round of summer training. Yet I still questioned why I was doing my sport — why I was still running for the Scots. Now that I’m nearing the end of my final season of cross country, I can answer that question.
Since arriving in the NCAA, Covenant College has been a member of three intercollegiate athletic conferences. The first was the now defunct Great South Athletic Conference, which was followed by a short period of independence before joining the USA South Athletic Conference.
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On September 16, 2026, an anonymous female student from Cornell University filed a civil lawsuit against seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity. The student (“Jane Doe”) reported the incident in November 2024, but the case became public this year and made national headlines.