The American Dream has seen more popular days. Not only has government expansion gradually crowded out the promise of the American Dream, but certain strains of Christianity have challenged it on...

Back in June, the national media hemmed and hawed when the Texas GOP came out with a platform which included an education plank opposing “the teaching of … critical thinking skills.” Though...

Everyone has their own reason and desire for having a needle slowly inject ink onto their skin, resulting in a tattoo.  In my opinion, there are three types of tattoos. The first type comes from...

It’s bad enough that I hate Whitworth, have no friends because I’m mean and am wasting all my parents’ money by going here when I should be working at Dairy Queen. However, it is infinitely...

Spokane Public Schools recently made Yahoo news headlines when Rogers High School suspended 32 students for either participating in or watching an off-campus fight. School officials told media that...

How can you hear about God and not be impressed? Genesis gives us a glimpse of what God is capable of. He made the sky and gave it life. Below it, he created the ocean and the mystery of its depth....

Recently, a Huffington Post article written by Cenk Uygur claimed that the election is practically over and the voters have already decided that President Barack Obama will serve another term. He...

I don’t think students at Whitworth are aware of how important awareness really is. I think we’re missing that crucial ability to recognize that there are important topics and issues that we need...

There are three kinds of people in the world: the smoker, the non-smoker, and the poor, conflicted soul caught somewhere in between. At a place like Whitworth University, there is nothing more...

If Congress and President Obama don’t come together before the end of this year, Americans could face another grave setback to our economic recovery: the largest tax increase in U.S. history. As...

Although abortion used to be the most prominent social issue, gay marriage has taken over, sharply dividing the nation. Some, including Julian Bond, head of the NAACP, have likened efforts to legalize...

Places such as Guatemala, Haiti and Mexico were my mission fields. I used to think a mission field was a third-world country where a different language is spoken and the streets are lined with poverty...