Sept. 20th, Emma Watson, the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, addressed the United Nations at their headquarters in New York regarding gender equality. Her speech focused on unifying the world in the gender equality movement but did not offer specific solutions for achieving that equality.
Read moreNew Mercies for a New Year
It’s a new year. And if you’re anything like me, you spend a little time taking inventory of your life. This usually leads to dissatisfaction, followed by a commitment to change things in the next 365 days. This is the new year’s resolution.
Read moreCharlie Hebdo and Satire
One of the most important events in world news to transpire over Christmas break was the terrorist attack on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Read moreIs It Loving?
Did you know the Safety and Security (S&S) office doesn’t like it when people write articles about them? Okay, so that’s a given…but seriously.
Read moreTickets Result of Imperfect System
Did you know the Safety and Security (S&S) office refuses to make public the rate or amount of overturned tickets through the appeals process?
We didn’t.
Read moreLack of Women Chapel Speakers
Until I began writing this article, I was completely oblivious to Covenant’s lack of female chapel speakers. Until now, you may have been too. Out of the 24 chapel speakers scheduled for this semester, only two are women – Dr. Alicia Jackson and Christiana Fitzpatrick. In the past six years, only 23 of Covenant’s chapel speakers have been female, and that number includes an entire school year – ’09-’10 – where not a single woman spoke in chapel. (The archive of past years’ chapel schedules can be found on Covenant’s website, in case you want to double-check my statistics. I’m not a math major.)
Read moreIn Response to “Let the Boys (and Girls) Play”
I was intrigued when I read Z Arima’s article, “Let the Boys Play (and the Girls Too)” in a previous edition of the Bagpipe. Students working in the Great Hall on Sundays has been something I’ve struggled with as well, especially when that work prevents students from attending worship services in the morning. However, I would like to present the flip side of the argument by simply stating that working in Chartwells and competing in sports competitions are very different things.
Read moreCurrent Events
The view from the top of Lookout Mountain is fantastic, isn’t it? Whether or not you can actually see seven states is of course a matter of debate, but to see the world spread out like a patchwork carpet of green trees and twinkling lights is always an inspiring sight. Most of the time, however, our perspective doesn’t seem to go much further than the view from Carter to the library in the fog. It’s easy to become so wrapped up in the happenings of the Mountain that we forget the beautiful and hostile world that surrounds us. We are no longer simply the inheritors of this world. We are now its builders and shapers.
Read moreLet's Talk About Talking Porn
To pick up where I left off, I think we need to talk to and pray with each other about our sexual sin. But I have to bring up the verbal masturbation thing again. Our conversations should not be a corporate exercise in the very thing we are saying we hate doing. In conversations with one another in which we speak about our idiosyncratic turning away from what God has for us—whether that be celibacy, singleness, marriage, or something else—we shouldn’t speak for the pleasure of ourselves without also being helpful to one another.
Read morePolitics
I hate politics. I hate politicians. The Senate is lazy. The President is stupid. The Supreme Court is partial. Congress is useless, senseless, and hypocritical. “If I had a pistol with two bullets and was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and a random politician, I would shoot the politician twice” (-Michael Scott of The Office).
Read moreLet's Talk Porn Part I
About a year and a half ago, a friend mentioned a phrase to me that has continued to captivate my imagination and conscience: verbal masturbation. He saw it in a Facebook post by his previous painting teacher. In the quip, his teacher expressed his frustration with the self-importance of contemporary representational painters. He commended their work, but saw getting together as artisans to pat each other on the back for being such wonderful people, for making such wonderful work, as pointless. They weren’t developing their craft in those moments, weren’t moving forward towards anything. They were simply pausing to celebrate themselves—to indulge one another. His naming of this action as “verbal masturbation” has captured me because the metaphor is continues to bring a startling amount of clarity to several contemporary problems.
Read moreCool Title Here
By choosing to listen to pop music, I am constantly bombarded with a variety of mainstream messages. Sometimes they perplex me, and many at least require more than just a passing thought. For example, how does one shake it off, and what exactly is “it”? Or when is it appropriate to listen to the father of your beloved, and when is it appropriate to marry her anyway, and how exactly does one navigate such a situation without being impolite?
Read more#ReplyAll
As many (all) of you might have noticed, Monday night brought on one of the more epic email chains of our Covenant careers. A mass email was sent out by our favorite Student Body VP with the names accidently cc’d instead of bcc’d making for a super tempting “reply all” button. This eventually spiraled into a call for a new vote for Freshman Class President with Chad Chad Chad Chad and our own Bagpipe Editor, Emmett, on the ballot as president and vice-president respectively. What you may not have been aware of at the time is that email chains like this are not only completely forbidden under the student handbook, but can result in disciplinary action, as they are considered harassment.
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