Top 5 Songs Worth Learning to Listen To From 2016 by: Father Daniel Gifford Assistant Chaplain Author of iamlearningtolisten.blogspot.com/\  … What is a song that’s worth learning to listen to?  Sometimes it might grab you the first time you listen to it.  Other times, it might not.  It might be that there’s something about it that just can’t put your finger on.  At some point, you decide to listen to it again.  And again.  And Read More …

Charging the Field for Christ by: John Collin   I’d like to consider myself a true American. I power walk to every class, I never leave my dorm without my trusty pocket-knife, and my favorite president is Theodore Roosevelt. I’ve teared up on occasion to the National Anthem. And I’m also told that my voice is as deep as Andrew Jackson’s blue eyes. Thus, my taste in cinema has to reflect this devotion to freedom. Read More …

SEEK 2017 by Stephen Tony . I’ll keep this short because I know you’re busy.  We’re all busy.  We stay up into the late hours of the night grinding out assignments and studies to get a solid GPA.  We join more clubs than we have time for just to put it on our resume.  A close friend once told me “I’m sacrificing who I am now for who I’ll be later.”  But does it end Read More …

Discovering Holiness in Haiti by Nicole Baker   As a junior in college, most college students would spend their spring break on a beach or at someone’s family cottage, or even at home with friends where there are dogs. But I spent my spring break on a mission trip with 20 others from across the country in Haiti serving with the Missionaries of the Poor, and it changed my life.   Our first day in Read More …

  A friend of mine recently reminded me of a quote that he heard an old professor recite. It came from the Newman Center’s namesake, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman.  The quote I forget exactly, and I cannot find it online, but it went something along the lines of “Man is not so much convinced by arguments as he is by his sympathies.”  In other words, though arguments and reasons for why any given person Read More …