It’s Thursday night, two o’clock in the morning and your trash can is filled to the brim with the empty cans of energy drinks. Your eyes feel like they are about to jailbreak from your skull and the world is all but a blurry mess of unending words. But hark!

St. Patrick’s Day is a rather curious holiday. People are decked out in green or dressing up like leprechauns, sparkly clovers are in every CVS, cops are tearing their hair out (what little the male ones are allowed to keep) performing DUI stops, and the bars are brimming to their

Do we really know what love is until we have stared into its ugly face? This world may dress it up in crimson gowns and dark capes of passion or teary-eyed looks and half-answered promises of acceptance, of tolerance, but that is not love. It does not whimper for notice

It is estimated that $2 billion is spent annually on short-term mission trips, according to an article by Baylor University. This staggering number has caused many to question the effectiveness of raising money to send teams overseas for such short periods of time, because why would such a short trip

Written by Raven in a Cardinal’s Nest Horror Movies. Yikes. It’s one of those taboo topics that earned itself a place among the other uncomfortable headlines such as sexuality, depression, and politics that we as Christians struggle to work through. Think about your own experiences with this type of cinema.

Written by Lilly Fischer  “Worship is our innermost being responding with praise for all that God is, through our attitudes, actions, thoughts, and words, based on the truth of God as He has revealed Himself” (Dr. John MacArthur). The first hymn book was published in Massachusetts in 1640, a book

Do you ever feel like there are multiple pieces of you and no single person has all of them? Like you are a prism and they can only see the white light, not the colors? Perhaps you are a swimmer or a soccer player to one group of friends, then

My dad discovered Kim Possible on Disney Channel when I was young enough to see a high schooler as a role model. He recorded the “Friends and Foes” marathon on VHS and let me watch episodes on lazy Saturdays. Sometimes, we’d set up stools in the kitchen (small pillars to

My dearest friend, it has been too long. My sweet fairytale love, How I hate you. Blinded by your smile, and the scent of your snake oil. Bound by your words, Mesmerized by the glow of your tongue, My dearest friend I thought I had escaped your grasp. But there

Every year, certain freshmen emerge out of their caves, farms, and hobbit holes to come to Cairn University. They are shedding off the old title of “homeschooler” and claiming the new title of “freshman.” As they shed off their old skin, they learn how to finally acclimate to the world