Culture

As Christmas readily approaches, I’ve noticed that I’ve felt a little less “Christmas spirit” as I’ve gotten older. This sentiment...

When you read a work in translation, are you reading the same work that the author originally composed? As technology...

At a theology conference I attended last semester, one of the speakers exhorted us to ‘go find the beauty.’ To...

My earliest memory is the feeling of being confused. It was my third birthday. I remember walking through my basement,...

Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had...

In the mid 1800’s, a deluge of new words struck the American vocabulary, infusing it with the rough-and-tumble sound of...

I recently read The Scarlet Letter for the first time. (Shocking, I know! How did they let me into the...

Nothing reminds us of the true gift of friends and family like Frank Capra’s beloved Christmas film, It’s a Wonderful...

Reflections on the Christian Writers Conference Spring of 2025  There is an excitement that ignites a place when people who...

“Make the campus beautiful, for that in itself is an education.”   -Joseph Newton Pew  These visionary words of the then-chairman...

I have roamed the wilderness with the Romantics, marveled at the heavens with Copernicus, and navigated seas with Beowulf. To...

Warm sunshine lengthening the days, fresh green shoots bursting out of branches, daffodils unfolding, the smell of earth after a...

My parents had to stress two lessons when raising me: the first was “take responsibility for the space you inhabit”...

Many of us young Grovers have come to college seeking to grow in wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of ourselves and...

It’s a hot day in Ottawa, Illinois as you join the hustle and bustle of a large crowd in a...