It’s a classic Christmas movie scene—the greedy kid rushes through the store, pointing at toy after toy and demanding all of it. All of a sudden, he passes a tired mom with a toddler, bending to put back a can of soup. The toddler wriggles in her arms, and she drops the can, and the well-meaning kid picks it up and puts it in her cart. A shadow crosses the woman’s face as she says, “Thanks, but we can’t afford it.”
Read moreCovenant’s Trash Cans Are Filling Up
Grab to Go, the popular new lunch option at Covenant, is causing a plastic pile-up.
“I haven't been getting grab-and-go as much because I am worried about how much plastic there is,” said Chloe Luce, a junior in the Student Apartments, “I am so conscious of how much waste I have in the world.”
Read moreChristmas Music Has Limits, People!
November 1. The leaves are orange, the air is crisp, and pumpkins are on doorsteps. However, into this autumnal paradise creeps the sounds of sleigh bells. My friends start singing Christmas music, and my social media feed is full of influencers celebrating Christmas. It seems we have all forgotten Thanksgiving. While starting Christmas festivities early can be alluring, I invite you to stop for a second and consider the value in waiting to celebrate Christmas.
Read moreSabbath: Bigger Than The Blink
When Issue 3 of the Bagpipe was published, one of the most striking and eye-grabbing articles in the Opinions selection was Adi Smith’s “Sabbath, Worship and the Blink.” Smith argues that keeping the Blink open on Sundays ignores the call for Christians to keep a day of sabbath and prevents those who work at the Blink from resting on Sundays.
Read moreMud Puddles, Bad Carpet, and Honesty
Great Hall dinners, late night Blink runs, chapel Doxologies—you've heard about these Covenant quintessentials since your high school tour. I hope you've experienced them for yourself. But I think Covenant's awesomeness lies in not only the postcard-worthy memories but also the whole-life-impacting experiences of residential college. Some that come to mind:
Read moreHumanitarian Crises—What Can Students Do?
Covenant is an amazing community—we can live comfortably, worship freely, and be blessed to complain about class registrations instead of missile strikes. Living on a mountain as beautiful and safe as ours is a great blessing but can sometimes lead us to become a bit of a bubble, blocking out the rest of the world.
Read moreCheese Quesadillas’ Price Increases
Amy Johnson 27’ used to order the cheese quesadilla all the time at The Blink … but not anymore.
The quesadilla’s price rose from $2.75 to $5 over the summer, and many students don’t get it.
“I’m a lot less likely to go to the Blink now,” said Johnson, a junior from the student apartments. She said she’d prefer to make quesadillas herself.
Finding Balance in Chaos: A Guide to Mid-Semester Burnout
Surviving midterms—two words that shouldn’t go together but yet somehow always do. As the mid-semester wraps up, students are met with an inevitable fate—midterm burnout. We all experience burnout one way or another.
Read moreThe Failure of a Showgirl?
“Aretha Franklin, when asked her opinions on Taylor Swift, said, ‘Great gowns, beautiful gowns,’” said Mackenzie Protos ’27, “And I think that's how I feel about this album.”
On Friday, October 3, Swift released her twelfth studio album titled “The Life of a Showgirl.” I sat down with a few Swifties on campus to get their opinions on the new record-breaking album.
Read moreOh Deer…
Early Monday morning at 1:19 a.m., two masked men entered the second floor of Carter, offloaded a black garbage bag on Ekklesia, and beat a hasty retreat. Ryan Wood ’28, a resident of Second Central and an eyewitness at the scene, was the first to approach the bag.
Read moreThe Least of These: God’s Work Through Those Less Fortunate
Jack Rusten ’26 and I are riding down the road, dying with laughter listening to our friend Wes talk about his “secret football club in Dublin” in a fake Irish accent so thick I wouldn’t be surprised if he used to be a theater kid. We pull into the parking lot, Wes still waxing poetically, me still cracking up, and hop out of the car into the blazing Tulsa sun.
Read moreThe Burning Question of Burning Corpses
Long ago at Covenant Chapel, one Reverend Rayburn gave a talk so controversial that those present then still remember it today. This talk was not on any matter relating to contentious politics, nor was it one espousing anything terribly new. Rather, the subject that got so many Covenant students heated in the ’90s was cremation; more specifically, why Christians should not be cremated.
Read moreSabbath, Worship and the Blink
At Covenant, we are always taught the importance of the Sabbath, and yet, frequently on Sunday nights, the Blink is filled with countless students putting in their orders and thoughtlessly yelling over the noise of people and speakers. While this is not inherently a problem, it should make us ask some serious questions. We might not be the ones working when we go to the Blink on Sundays, but we are causing some of our fellow students to have to work…
Read moreRecord Resurgence: The Rise of Physical Media at Covenant
In an increasingly advanced society that places emphasis on the use of technology and media, why is there a sudden popular desire for the usage of physical media again? Haven’t Americans worked so hard to stem away from physical media just for us to resort back to it? And what is so special about physical media that digital media doesn’t have? These are all questions that deserve an answer.
Read moreA Christian’s Mind In Media
God created humans with many characteristics, one being storytelling, prominent in our culture today in the form of movies and TV shows. Every day people retire on their couches for an evening of adventure, romance or mystery. But Hollywood is also notorious for its immorality and often produces content involving depictions of ungodly actions such as drunkenness, bloody murder and sex scenes.
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