In August 2020, the Reddit forum r/AnywhereButAmazon was created with thedescription: “Amazon is convenient, but they’re not the most ethical company. Join us to find better alternatives.” [1] The discussion page quickly filled up with people asking for recommendations on other places to shop and posting news articles about Amazon’s unethical practices. The tech giant […]
Hello Out There: The Case For Flexible Retirement
Retirement can suddenly alter everything about a person’s daily life. One could put in their initial notice of retirement, be given a “We’ll Miss You!” sheet cake from Publix, and then find themselves watching midday reruns of The Golden Girls on TV Land in less than thirty-days. This swiftness only serves to make one of […]
An Exploration of the Western Self
“Hitler had won” — or so perceived the aged Holocaust survivor Kivas Rieff in his final days.1 The world had become graceless — the West was now contemptible on account of its cultural decay, and there was something tumultuous permeating the climate in the 21st century which Kivas sensed with perfect clarity — he had […]
Hope and Healing in a Mental Health Crisis
According to the National Institute of Health, twenty percent of adults in the United States experienced mental illness in 2019.1 Suicide was the second highest cause of death for individuals aged 10 to 34,2 and out of every age group, mental illnesses were most prevalent among young adults aged 18 to 25, accounting for 29% […]
Student Stories: Solitude during the Pandemic
Joyce Huang (‘24) Before the pandemic, my faith was mostly based on what other people told me. I didn’t really read my Bible or do research online, I just assumed that what people told me was right. Then when everything shut down and in-person church activities stopped happening, I wasn’t able to see people as […]
Portraits from the Past
Introduction “It is not good that the man should be alone.”1 These are among the first words in the entire Bible; it is on this basis that God created Eve – so that man would not live alone, but that he might be fruitful and multiply, creating society. But the past year has seen an […]