What if there was a better way to do New Year’s resolutions? What if when February 1 rolled around you didn’t feel discouraged and burnt out? I believe New Year’s bingo cards are offering an exciting, new solution to New Year’s resolutions. They fix many of the problems with traditional New Year’s resolutions and inspire real change.
Read moreWhy I Love Being An English Major
“Why I love being an English Major” is a difficult question. Not in the sense that it's hard to understand the question—just that it feels complicated to answer. I’m a second semester senior and have been an English major my whole time as a student.
Read moreFriends Don’t Lie, But Screenwriters Do
In May of 2022, Netflix had the world on the edge of their seats. The hit show “Stranger Things” had concluded its fourth season with a bang, opening up massive possibilities for the fifth and final season. However, when the final season premiered in the past several months, viewers have had an overwhelming negative response. It doesn’t make sense—how did one of Netflix’s top shows with a 480 million dollar budget and the same writers as always manage to tank so spectacularly? (Spoilers ahead!)
Read moreFood Banks Are More Important Than Ever
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.
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