Archive for February 4th, 2010

Title Track: A sports parable

Super Bowl Sunday 2007: Colts versus Bears. My pastor, not a native Hoosier, in the presence of a blue-and-whiteclad congregation, attempts to give the most appropriate sermon of the season: love your enemies.
Pastor Paul splits our congregation according to teams. Bears fans sit on the left, Colts fans sit on the right. My youth group…

Apple releases new iPad

Apple may or may not have done it again.
Years of rumors and speculations about a tablet-like mobile device came true last Wednesday when Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple, revealed Apple’s newest creation: the iPad.
Weighing 1.5 pounds, the iPad looks similar to an iPhone, but is 9.5 inches long and 7.5 inches wide.
The tablet…

CSI encourages eco-friendly habits

Genesis 1:26-28 and Psalms 8:6-8 talk about the idea that God created humans to have dominion over the earth. A group of people at Indiana Wesleyan University is taking the idea of Christian stewardship to heart.
The Creation Stewardship Initiative is a group of six individuals who share the same passion for sustainability and creation care…

Supreme Court gives corporations free-speech rights

The dissent says that ’speech’ refers to oral communications of human beings, and since corporations are not human beings they cannot speak. This is sophistry.U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
The Supreme Court made a landmark decision on Jan. 21 establishing that American corporations should possess the same First Amendment free-speech rights as individuals.
Citizens United v….

Corey’s Picks of the Week

This is it, the last game of the year, the game every spectator has been waiting to watch and every player has been waiting to play: the Super Bowl. On Feb. 7, Land Shark Stadium in Miami, Florida will be welcoming the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints as each will compete for Super…

National Conversations to address important issues

In Indianapolis on Feb. 19, a conference of select experts will address culturally relevant issues in a forum called National Conversations. The project, which is sponsored by Indiana Wesleyan University, will address the increasingly important topic of healthcare during its first session.
Several faculty members from IWU will be involved in the event, including Dr. Henry…

HINDS award recognizes faculty research

On Thursday, Feb. 4 at 6 p.m., the ceremony for the Hinds Award will take place. The event is held at The Hostess House’s upstairs ballroom. The Hinds Fellowship Award was designed for full-time faculty members with an established record of scholarship to pursue school projects by offering load reduction and financial support to students.
The…

A Tim Burton twist on famous Greek tragedy

Euripedes’ “Medea” will be performed in the Phillippe Performing Arts Center’s Black Box Theatre beginning tonight. The play is a Greek tragedy about Medea who avenges her husband for marrying another woman.
Although the play was written more than 2000 years ago, director Rachel Marley (sr) has worked hard to make the play relatable to a…

LOST versus Obama: Round 1

OK, it’s true. President Obama’s first State of the Union Address was moved forward by one week for the season six premiere of “Lost.” According to ABC, almost immediately after the news came out that the President could interfere with the beginning of the final season of “Lost,” millions of viewers got upset. In response…

Cannarf rating: The Avett Brothers’ “I and Love and You”

Blogger Bryan Allain created a completely ridiculous, completely subjective rating system for media – and I love it. The “Cannarf Rating System” is based solely on whether or not the media met expectations. Reviews are subjective by nature, so why not embrace it? (Note that I’ve adjusted Allain’s system just a little bit, because he…