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Welcome to Carole Yue: Around Founders Board of Trustees Meeting Faculty Profile

BY CAIT KELLY BY CARRIE WOODWARD

This past Friday, Sept. 26, I Covenant’s new assistant attended Around Founders for the professor of psychology, Dr. Carole first time. For years I stayed away Yue, has made a career of studying for various reasons – parents in town, why people think what they do. Dr. corn-starch horror stories, etc. – but Yue is a cognitive psychologist, this year I decided that, as a senior, or as she explained with a laugh, I ought to embrace the opportunities “I care about what you think, not at Covenant before it is too late. what you feel.” That sentiment was Around Founders is a unique not always true; Dr. Yue first began opportunity not only for the Founders studying psychology in undergrad halls to show off their creativity, but at Samford University in Birming- also for non-Foundersians (or is it ham, Alabama, with the intention “Founters-ites”?) to venture into the of becoming a therapist. In her first labyrinth across from the library and cognitive psychology class she real- discover what the halls are like. ized an interest in discovering how This year’s theme, “Let the Games people learn, especially in different Begin,” allowed for a variety of BYCAROLYN WALTERS on the college. Dan Wykoff, vice sessions. According to Richard learning environments. Dr. Yue interpretations and a good show. president for business and finance Bowser, chair of the Board of moved to California to complete Chelsea Johnson, a senior on The Covenant College Board and Covenant’s CFO, will give a Trustees, these include committees her master’s and later doctoral Halcyon, thought the night was “very of Trustees will meet to discuss brief financial report. Other items on Academic Affairs, Admissions, degree at University California Los artistic and put together” and “loved the various affairs of the school scheduled for the weekend include Advancement, Campus Planning, Angeles, far from her suburban the creepy, eerie setting that many on Thursday, Oct. 2. Of the many a presentation on the Quality Finance, Student Life, Trustee Atlanta hometown in terms of both of the halls had and the way they items on the docket for this Enhancement Plan (QEP) by Mr. Development, and Spiritual Life. distance and culture, because of switched the meaning of ‘game.’” semester’s meeting, one topic of Tad Mindeman, chair of the QEP The campus planning and the draw of its excellent psychology According to Ian Webb, the particular interest is the many selection committee, as well as finance committees stand to make program. Founders building president, there renovations planned for the readings on proposed revisions the most visible impact on the UCLA provided Dr. Yue with were five categories which the judges campus. to the Standing Policies and college, as various renovations incredible opportunities to study used to determine the winners: According to the official agenda, Procedure. around campus will be discussed. the human mind, but it only creativity, participation, originality, as provided by Executive Assistant Over the course of the weekend, In particular, these renovations recently acquired a Chick-Fil-A, presentation, and overall impression. to the President Joan Stanton, the Board will also break into include those related to Carter something Dr. Yue missed in These criteria were then combined the meeting will begin Thursday smaller committee meetings, Hall and the art facilities. her years in California. Dr. Yue with the people’s choice. Based on morning and President Halvorson which will then present any items According to Rev. Steve says that coming to Covenant has this judging method, Catacombs will give the Board an update of note during the larger group Smallman, a member of the allowed her not only to return to

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Chattanooga Wifi in Public Parks BY GARETT SISSON After years of technological on-duty police and other public city’s corporate and government in high traffic places such as that heritage, and is working on growth and speculation, Chat- officials, who often need informa- areas, were recognized for their shops and reception areas. The the framework of those preexisting tanooga is finally offering a free tion at a moment’s notice while on potential to provide free access for companies announced more than city cables to launch its widened public Wi-Fi service spanning the go. The city-owned Electric anyone. However, EPB received 500 access points to be rolled free public access network. The several community locations across Power Board of Chattanooga (EPB) several lawsuits from private cable out starting last year, with a few Chattanooga Public Library, Fire the city. was supported by city tax funds to and subscription internet providers complimentary hours per month Departments, City Hall, and other According to Lacie Stone, make the vision happen. such as Comcast and AT&T, who, per user. buildings are first on the agenda, Chattanooga’s Director of Com- By 2011, under extensive despite their lack of hotspots in the Meanwhile, the “wireless with parks coming in a second munications (as reported by the testing and the leadership of city, claimed that free public Wi-Fi mesh” evolved into “The Gig,” a phase shortly after. The city is Chattanooga Times Free Press, Mayor Ron Littlefield, the network was unfair to their businesses and vast, subscription-based network hosting a naming competition for Sept. 2, 2014), “Workers are in the was delivering 16 megabytes per infringed on their legal “defined of fiber optic cables capable of pro- the service through its official process of rewiring the existing second. Though the project gained service areas.” The claims were viding streaming data two hundred website, which has closed for Wi-Fi in city-owned buildings, and heavy media attention, it also faced dismissed by judges. times faster than most residences submissions but will reopen voting in subsequent phases will open heavy criticism from detractors who As Andy Berke took over the anywhere else in the country. The with the top five selected names up Wi-Fi in parks and other open questioned its cost-effectiveness mayorship in 2013, the idea of all- service was offered by EPB for $70 next week. Though it does not spaces.” and practicality. The original grid encompassing, free public Wi-Fi per month, and has become a part provide Chattanooga the originally Chattanooga took its first was known for its connectivity access seemed a poor mistake in of Chattanooga’s increasing appeal envisioned all-inclusive network, steps towards expansive Wi-Fi in problems, and interest declined the past. The administration moved to tech entrepreneurs and startup after five years, the announcement 2009, when it earned a $111 mil- because of its government-only on to other projects and the Wi-Fi companies. As one of the only on September 2 from the CTFP lion stimulus grant from the federal usage and funding from city smart grid downsized. places in the Western hemisphere represents the first sustainable Department of Energy to help build tax-payers. One result of these develop- to offer a wireless network capable model for the most wired city since a “wireless mesh” of 580 routers Even at this point, the fiber optic ments, conflict notwithstanding, of streaming one gig per second, interest in free public Wi-Fi began. to bring coverage to every area cables, which could transmit data was the expansion of Comcast, Chattanooga has earned the of the city. Supposedly, such an at close to the speed of light and Xfinity, and AT&T hotspots, which nickname, “Gig City.” infrastructure could be utilized by were built between nearly all the were offered to business clients Now, Chattanooga is drawing on

Faculty Profile: Carole Yue CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE the land of southern hospitality, teachers and mentors inspired and Star Trek, Dr. Yue is ready Trek to Elizabeth Bennet in Pride but to arrive at a place where “you Dr. Yue to continue her academic and willing to discuss how seeing and Prejudice. can have discussions about faith career and become a teacher who women playing a variety of roles Dr. Yue is currently teaching and scholarship and how the two could also teach students to love as scientists and doctors in Star General Psychology, Advanced interact.” According to Dr. Yue, her learning. Those teachers invested Trek: Deep Space Nine influenced General Psychology, and faith has been woven throughout in their students and promoted her perception of women. Seeing Developmental Psychology, three all of her academic pursuits education and Christian growth, a female characters in roles of lead- classes that teach students basic and is a huge part of the study tradition Dr. Yue hopes to continue ership and having degrees of higher psychology principles and are of psychology. “God made our at Covenant by knowing the education caused Dr. Yue to think “building blocks” for Psych majors. minds,” she said. “Investigating community and finding the unique positively about her own place as a Dr. Yue’s commitment to helping how we think is a way to honor qualities of her students. woman in society and contributor to her students learn with the goal God and explore his world!” Dr. Those students who do visit science research and helped propel of understanding should let her Yue’s passion and excitement for Dr. Carole Yue’s office will notice her towards a degree in cognitive quickly become an established learning was instilled from an early the shelves filled with books on psychology. Even non-psych majors part of the Covenant community. age by her parents and teachers psychology, language, and culture are welcome to drop by Dr. Yue’s “I’m most excited about getting who impressed upon her the and on one shelf, a Muppet doll. A office, she will happily discuss the to know students better,” says Dr. importance of reading and striving fan of the Muppets, Jane Austen merits of characters as diverse as Yue. “I hope that they will see that for academic excellence. Those novels, cookie dough ice cream, ranging from Jadzia Dax from Star psychology is exciting.” Faculty Quote of the Week

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received first place, First Belz came including a room with an inflatable up by the main characters of the in second place, and Jubilee was pool for water aerobics and a hokey- comic series Calvin and Hobbes by Emmett Gienapp third. pokey room. Sophomore McKenzie Bill Watterson. The hall portrayed The first hall visitors walked Barham stated, “I loved Jubilee the chaos of Calvin’s game by Editor in Chief through was Gracewell, whose because they captured the spirit of adhering croquet hoops to the walls members chose a Harry Potter a nursing home, and the old people as well as the floor, and occasionally Gabby Powell Quidditch theme. As guests entered makeup was pretty great!” visitors heard talk of “morks,” an Layout & Web Gracewell, they observed Hogwarts But the hall which seemed to alien species in the comics. students learning to enchant steal the show was Catacombs, who Following was Blackwatch’s “Ye “flying” brooms and received a based their hall’s decorations on the Old Games”, complete with a pub at Adrienne Siegenthaler cup of Butterbeer. Junior Morgan short story “The Most Dangerous the beginning and characters such Managing Editor Crago said that “Gracewell’s hall Game.” The commons was turned as Robin Hood and a court jester was really enjoyable even for people into the living room of a general walking down the halls. At the end Abby Whisler Photo who have not seen the Harry Potter who explained his love of hunting. stood a friar throwing lettuce at a movies or read the books, such as As visitors walked through the man in the stocks who was quoting Liz Simakoff Copy myself.” hall, they were confronted with from Monty Python and the Holy Next was Highlands, who based screams for help from the General’s Grail. Hannah McCoy News their hall design on the family victims, including a man injured Last was Caledon, who chose the board game, LIFE. Complete with a by a bear trap. But what seemed to board game of Clue as inspiration wood-burned plaque was made Jamison Shimmel Arts creditor searching for Brad Voyles, be the most surprising, considering for their hall design. While walking which will list the names of the win- the Dean of Students, and a burglar Catacombs’ renown for exerting the halls visitors had the chance to ning halls of both Around Founders Jonathan Moore Opinions holding a “This is a robbery” sign, as little effort as possible into look into the various rooms of the and Founders Music Video Night the hall displayed a progression Around Founders, was the hall’s board game, such as the Conserva- starting this year. “The idea is to Nate Frierson Sports from college to retirement. commitment to creating an outdoor tory and the Pool (which was the make a prize that will be used for After Highlands was Balcony’s environment indoors; at one point hall’s water fountain). At the end, years to come,” stated Webb. Trent Kelly Distribution “Ancient Games,” where passer- guests had to step over a real stream guests had the opportunity to fill out “Being in Around Founders was byers could observe mythological flowing through the hall. an accusation sheet to say who they a lot of fun,” Christian Warner, a Garret Sisson Staff Writer characters such as Aphrodite and After Catacombs was the equally thought was the culprit, much like junior on Jungle, said. “It really Hercules roaming the halls in togas. disturbing interpretation of the in the game. brings the hall together.” Carrie Woodward Staff Writer Following was Jungle’s “Jimanji,” board game “Candy Land” by On Wednesday night, Oct. 1, which seemed well-fitted consider- First Belz. Upon entering the Founders had a party to announce ing they transformed their hall into hall, students came into contact the winner and watch the footage of Faculty Advisor a jungle atmosphere with vines, the with Tim-Burton-esque versions of the event, created by the film club. Cliff Foreman sound of roaring animals, and even characters from the game, such as In addition to bragging rights, a person dressed as a monkey. Lord Licorice and a mud-covered Catacombs will receive a pizza For inquiries or comments, contact Emmett Gienapp Fifth was Jubilee, who became Gloppy the Chocolate Monster. and ice cream party, First Belz will at [email protected]. the “Jubilee Retirement Home” for Next was Brethren’s interpretation receive a pinata filled with candy, This is a Covenant College student publication the evening. Each room down the of “Calvin Ball,” which is a fictional and Jubilee will receive cookies. The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the College or the student body. hall housed activities for the elderly, and confusing game originally made Also, according to Ian Webb, a

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What to Watch This Fall BY JAMISON SHIMMEL With a plethora of new shows twist to basic storytelling, which expected to continue bringing in subject matter like osteosarcoma show to start watching. Red Band debuting this fall on prime time resulted in an incredible 14 more. Anderson and Ross both and transplant waitlists for young Society can be caught on FOX, TV, here are my top three picks million viewers for its premier. individually delivered comedic adults while developing lovable Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. for shows to watch out for. Viola Davis takes charge as the gold throughout the pilot, but characters through their personal lead and leaves viewers anxiously their on-screen chemistry is what stories. Red Band Society is nar- How to Get Away With Murder awaiting next week’s plot twists elevated the show even further. rated by a comatose 12-year-old and relational drama. How to Get For a good laugh as well as a patient, and From executive producer Shonda Away with Murder is on ABC at challenge to examine stereotypes, while noted Rhimes, How to Get Away with 10 p.m. Thursday nights. do not miss Black-ish on ABC at for being Murder is the newest legal drama 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday nights. unrealistic that, according to ABC follows Black-ish in how “the brilliant, charismatic and Red Band Society hospitals are seductive Professor Annalise From the Executive Producer of actually run, Keating (Viola Davis) who gets Bernie Mac, and starring Anthony Starring Octavia Spencer (The the show has entangled with four law students Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross Help), Red Band Society drew in weight that from her class ‘How to Get Away (yes, the daughter of Diana Ross), an impressive 8 million viewers challenges with Murder.’ Little do they know Black-ish follows Dre Johnson, for its debut. According to FOX, viewers to that they will have to apply what an African American family the show is “a provocative, think, but they learned to real life, in the man, trying to promote a sense of unconventional and unique also brings a masterful, sexy, suspense-driven cultural identity while raising his coming-of-age dramedy about lighthearted legal thriller.” How to Get Away kids in white, upper-middle-class a group of rule-bending friends feel to the with Murder is one of the most suburbia. With the show’s sharp and the adults who mentor them tough situ- brilliantly crafted shows I have wit and comedic timing, paired through the ups and downs of ations each seen in quite a while. Effectively with its accurate portrayal of the adolescence in Los Angeles’ patient faces. utilizing flash forwards to a stereotypical misconceptions of Ocean Park Hospital.” Red Band If you like murder committed by the stu- a suburban African American Society, in comparison with other Young Adult dents, and the present classroom family, Black-ish has hooked Fox TV dramedies, aims for a Fiction, drama, the show brings a unique over 11 million viewers and is little more depth by touching on this is the

Alt -J Review BY CATHERINE LANDERS Two years after the US release of book in the comfort of your dorm the bands peaceful, overlapping their debut An Awesome room. chemistry. Mid-verse, male and Wave, the English indie-rock Neil McCormick of The female voices dovetale to create an band alt-J has released This Telegraph says, "The surprising eerily beautiful and fluid duet. If Is All Yours. Alt-J is known for thing is it does not sound incongru- you enjoy the appalachian feel of their unusual conglomeration of ous... the multi-instrumentalists Fleet Foxes, or the soft warmth of instruments which range in this blend together with a deft and Night Beds, you would appreciate album from a joyful tambourine, delicate touch, concocting densely this particular song. a sultry saxophone, and even the layered yet airily light tracks from There truly is a deeply vocals of pop icon in confections of folky wind instru- embedded sense of travel the song "." ments, tickly guitars and throbbing throughout alt-J's melodies, The band could not have electronica, harmonies constructed which contributes to a feeling of chosen a better time of year to with the choral precision of adventure and exploration. Arrival release the new album. This Is medieval madrigals. Joe Newman's in Nara," "Nara," and "Leaving All Yours captures the feeling soft, high voice remains the focus, Nara" (Nara being a city in of crisp Autumn. I always enjoy tying everything together." Japan) are examples of the sort of a little alt-J with my mountain Though the singles "Left Hand continued adventure on which alt-J drives but I am especially look- Free," "Hunger of the Pine," and eagerly embarks with listeners. ing forward to this album when "" are classic After having This Is All Yours on the leaves are changing. While alt-J songs, "Warm Foothills" is my repeat this past week, I am pleased the album does bring vast variety personal favorite. Featuring soft to conclude that alt-J has produced in each song, it is subdued strum of guitar and light bells, the another strong album that yet again enough to listen whilst reading a acoustic sound lulls listeners into transcends the confines of a genre. Volume 60.24 THE BAGPIPE ARTS 5 VOLUME 61.4 THE BAGPIPE ARTS 5 Art and Consumerism BY EMMY SCHOLLENBERGER

“That’s art? It looks like a way to approach art. gratification. This mindset towards tend to prefer ideas presented in the time or inclination to learn five year old made it!” This was a Many people’s dismissal art is easy to fall into because we straightforward propositions rather about the language and concepts of fellow Kilter-goer’s opinion on a of modern and contemporary are bombarded daily by images than more emotive or associative the discipline of art, you can still series of abstract drawings. Had art stems from an attitude of which compete for a piece of our means of conveying themes. As look attentively and thoughtfully. he looked closer, he would have consumerism. Many times, we treat limited attention. So many of the viewers, we must learn to grapple At the least you can see if there is seen the nearby text labeling art as something to be used, either images surrounding us–billboards, with uncertainty, with multiple helpful information about the piece the drawings as some of sculptor aesthetically or ideologically. We magazine covers, movie post- interpretations and suggested nearby. Mark di Suvero’s preliminary expect art to be pretty, suitable for ers–are intended to be consumed, ideas, rather than with syllogisms Having a more open mindset sketches. But because he glanced hanging over the living room sofa. that we expect every image to be and manifestos. toward art can deepen your at the drawings and made a snap Most of us quickly bypass abstract immediately accessible. However, Like any other discipline, perspective. As Wendy Steiner judgment, he both missed learning art or pieces with unpleasant or while a viewer can physically see art comes with a set of concepts writes in The Scandal of Pleasure, about an artist’s working process confusing subject matter. We also a piece of art in a moment, deep and terms as well as an historical “Experiencing the variety of and scoffed at a fellow human who view art as a way to support our appreciation requires thoughtful background. An understanding meanings available in a work of had put time and thought into his worldview. For instance, most looking. Viewing art is an encoun- of the formal aspects of art art helps make us tolerant and work. Admittedly, Kilter is not people like Norman Rockwell’s ter between you as the viewer (color, line, composition), and mentally lithe. Art is a realm of the ideal setting for art viewing. work because it entertains us and and a physical object crafted by art history are often necessary to thought experiments that quicken, However, this dismissive attitude depicts a society that operates another human being. Encounters fully appreciate a given piece. sharpen, and sweeten our being towards art is one I have seen over under traditional values. Art that take time and attentiveness. This background knowledge can in the world.” Approaching art and over again: people reject a disturbs us, or refuses to clearly Mere consumption fails to do aid viewers in making sense critically–that is, thoughtfully work as art because they dislike it, illustrate biblical values fails our justice to the art and to its creator. of an otherwise baffling piece. engaging with the work–will result mock works without attempting to criteria for worthwhile art. We Much art is not intended to be eye Familiarity with formal concepts in opening your mind to a different understand them, and repeatedly want art to bolster our values candy or moral illustration. Art and understanding where a work is way of thinking: a way more open compare works to kindergarten or decorate our walls instead of gives us a window into another situated in its art historical context to ambiguity and complexity, a way creations. This hastiness to judge challenging our assumptions or person’s experience, prompting us allows viewers to analyze a piece’s more willing to consider perspec- art deprives the viewer of an expanding our ways of thinking. to reevaluate our own experience formal qualities and go beyond tives outside your own experience. experience that could enrich and Not only do we approach art and assumptions as a result. knee-jerk reactions to understand deepen his or her life. The roots of as something to use, we expect to Art frequently does this through why the piece evoked that reaction this mindset are worth examining understand it immediately. As in ambiguity and complexity, which and what ideas the artist may be in order to suggest an alternate other areas of life, we want instant we often find disconcerting. We engaging. Even if you don’t have

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Resisting the Thumb War BY MOLLY HULSEY If you ponder over conversa- I almost had to have cataract ing a glimpse of their neighbor’s tions you’ve had over the past surgery after battling the iGlare Snapchat before it disappeared week, can you remember each emitted from my local fast food into cyber oblivion for the ten individual you spoke with and sushi joint. minutes I waited by the cash what you spoke about? Admittedly, I am usually register. Perhaps, you might find this not terribly observant of my It was quite eerie, and I almost quite easy to do if you are a surroundings a lá takeout, but reached for the instant conversa- hermit and the recent chain of keeping one’s half-nourished tion awaiting me in my pocket, mass emails is the only human brain from hallucinating about the best solution to avoid being socialization you have encoun- California Rolls can bring about an abstracted, anti-social oddball. tered within a monthly time span. all means of unconventional However, I wasn’t the only one. However, the rest of us might behavior. Every booth, table, or Sitting next to me in line was a find this question to be a wee bit teetering stool was filled with cus- middle-aged African-American zealous shiver. around on there. It’s just not the more difficult to answer. This is tomers lacking any such impend- woman sporting a Southpole “I so agree. It’s incredible how same. You see, I just moved here quite understandable, when most ing concern. Most had plates of sweatshirt and carefully curly- many people are even with their and just about everybody back of these conversations are three- hibachi steaming in front of their Qed hair. Her own phone sat friends.” home expects me to keep up with ringed circuses of emoticons, unseeing faces. Others were expectantly on her lap, but her A raccoon-eyed high schooler them on this Facebook and don’t pocket-sized earthquakes, and shoulder to shoulder with at least gaze politely roamed above the represented a specimen of face- even bother callin’ and talkin’ to a Charlie Brownesque voice of some body with whom they were heads of the screen-watchers. to-face contact by shoving her me.” so-and-so who just had to speak minutely familiarr with. A few Every now and again, her itching Pinterest account over the screen “Oh, where are you from…”, with you in person as he drones dinner parties even appeared to fingers would reach out to the of the girl beside her: “Don’t you and then, this conversation on through the white noise. be made up of friends. However, keyboard, but she would violently think that dress is sooo cute! took about as many rabbit trails We are the multi-taskers, these distractions were invis- wrench them back to a death grip Why can’t we pull that off?” Her possible before my sushi was and we simply aren’t obligated ible to the eyes fixated on the on the side of her chair. Clearly, audience barely blinked an eye: un-cooked and ready. With as to know what we were talking glowing tablets super-glued to she was at war, as I was. Hope- “Who’s this we?” many times as the plastic doggie about five tweets ago. Nobody their palms. Legions of thumbs fully it wouldn’t be too strange if “It’s not even just people your bag wished me HAVE A GOOD is expected to remember the scrolled screens, building up we made an alliance and actually age either, honey. I don’t think DAY, I wished it was sincere. dialogue of dinosaurs are they? strength for upcoming wrestling spoke to each other. anybody learns how to have a “Well, it was nice talking to ya! Why on earth would one glance tournaments. They were proud to “I think we are about the only decent conversation anymore; Good luck at college.” up, eyes as glazed as a Krispy be the redeeming body part that ones not glued to our iPhones maybe I’m just too old. My “Same here. Good luck on Kreme donut, and waste the differentiates us from the majority around here.” daughter set up some Facebook starting your hair salon! I’m sure time to give someone your full of the animal kingdom. I’m glad “Oh, honey, I was just thinking account for me on the internet, when your friends back home attention? That would simply be to know they're being used for about that! Everyone is just but I just don’t see how people hear about it, they’ll want to un-American--absolutely inef- something important. getting too dad-gum attached to have the time! I barely touch commute here!” ficient. Almost no one in the entire those things. Creepy!” She reit- it myself, not that I would know “Oh honey, I hope so.” Perhaps that explains why restaurant could go without steal- erated this last statement with a too much about how to navigate Thank you, Covenant BY NATHAN CLARK Recently, there has been much remembering to bring a black hall mates, people I rarely talked mind their own business. Coming Much more can be said about the talk surrounding people who suit too. Two of my roommates to all make the trip down. I was to college, I had a developed bad things, but that’s not what have left Covenant. It seems to were there to hear, between grateful for the mass of Covenant a dichotomy between my new, this is about. I go back to Day of me that every time another hurt- short breaths, that my father was kids that took their entire day to college life and my old home life, Prayer. I don’t remember much of ing person leaves, people begin dying. They didn’t say anything; drive four and a half there and with few ever crossing between. it, but I do remember the passage to wonder if Covenant truly is the they just grabbed me and began then back to just be there, sit This is that natural effect of read, which was 1 Corinthians place it claims to be. This can to pray. through a service, hug me, pray living in two places, but it makes 15:50-58. It reminds us of God’s make all of us cynical of a place Later, at the visitation, I met for me, and leave. They didn’t it easy to hide. My college promise to resurrect the dead where the broken are supposed many of my dad’s co workers. ask any questions, didn’t say any friends may have never known and raise us body and soul. This to be welcome. So I want to share Most of them were not Christians quick and easy statements. They about my background, and I was sweet reminder would ring in why I chose not to leave. so, the best response they could knew the time for talking would ok with that. Maybe too ok. That my ears for the days that would Around late September last muster was, ‘Good luck’ or ‘Keep come later. day I learned that, like it or not, follow, amid all the pain. year, my worst nightmare came at it’. I was equally upset at my Covenant will be in your life, and This is why I stayed: I had to life. I got the call after the At the funeral, I was deeply own cynicism, because I didn’t know what is going on. need, and Covenant showed up. sunrise service on Day of Prayer. grateful and upset by what I saw. expect that at all. I figured that Covenant is imperfect. In For better or for worse, Covenant “Nathan, your dad had a heart As I walked through the doors Covenant would go on with its the months that would follow, will be there for people who let attack. This could be it. Come to the sanctuary I grew up going happy self, unaware of what was students and faculty would say it. So, thank you Covenant. home,” was the gist of what was to, I was stunned by the mass of going on. Truth is, I expected and do very hurtful things, and I said. I tearfully packed a bag, Covenant students. Roommates, very little of anyone, except to am sure that I returned the favor. Volume 60.24 THE BAGPIPE OPINIONS 7 VOLUME 61.4 THE BAGPIPE OPINIONS 7 Let's Talk Porn: Part 2 BY CALVIN CUMMINGS To pick up where I left off, over. I was now able to be the self-indulgence will be a fight has balanced our account. He the love of Christ and the saving I think we need to talk to and person who I knew I really was. to our deaths and we will need owns us now. Part of this means, power of the Holy Spirit, because pray with each other about our I would be the guy people could others keeping us accountable as Paul encourages us, “that he he who was tempted as we are sexual sin. But I have to bring look up to again—the righteous along the way. who began a good work in you was able to go where we couldn’t up the verbal masturbation thing one. Little did I realize then, but We also can’t take these will bring it to completion at the “as a forerunner on our behalf, again. Our conversations should I was the Pharisee praying next moments of accountability day of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians having become a high priest not be a corporate exercise in to the tax collector. Christ had personally, because we are not 1:6) The writer of Hebrews tells forever.” (Hebrews 6:20) the very thing we are saying we already bought the righteous- our own anymore. When Christ us that, in our Savior, “we do With this knowledge, we can hate doing. In conversations with ness I thought I could achieve said, “It is finished,” he meant not have a high priest who is also be such a gift to each other one another in which we speak through confessional catharsis. that his suffering and judgment unable to sympathize with our by listening without judgment about our idiosyncratic turning This became routine. However, on the cross was and is sufficient weaknesses, but one who in every of or disgust with one another, away from what God has for mere routine honesty didn’t bring to cover all human sin. Not just respect has been tempted as we because, at least I believe, all us—whether that be celibacy, progress, but rather numbness the sin of those who have commit- are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews of our different sexualities are singleness, marriage, or some- to both God and sin with a long ted heterosexual sin, who looked 4:15) We can all identify with confusing to all of us. Let us then thing else—we shouldn’t speak list of reasons why I shouldn’t be at Maxim but never Playboy, who Christ, no matter the multiplicity in joy confess our sin knowing for the pleasure of ourselves saved. only took a long look at someone of all of our sin, because we are our immense need of him. without also being helpful to one Confession of our sin is not like but never did anything about promised he was “tempted as we another. If our intentions behind getting our tonsils removed. If, it later, or who borrowed ten are.” confession are for our own relief, later, someone says to us, “Hey, thousand talents and couldn’t What does this tell us about or the release of something inside I think you may have messed pay it back. He has paid what our sexual brokenness? That none us that we just think has to come up some,” we don’t respond, we owed when we could not. He of us are too far gone to know out, then we are doing each “No way, other a disservice. In this, we you’re totally lose the ability to actually take off. I had our burdens to the place where my surgery we have been promised we can last week.” actually lay them down. Instead Fighting sin, of in prayer, we look for solace in especially one another. addiction, is This is not to say corporate like dental confession cannot be beneficial to hygiene. You our walk. I would actually argue brush when that confession to one another is you wake up a natural and even necessary ges- and before you ture of our faith. All I’m saying is go to bed, and that getting together to dwell on when someone how bad we are at any given thing says you have doesn’t actually help us mature. a piece of (Philippians 3:7-16) Supplication broccoli in does. The Spirit’s continued work your teeth in us does. (Romans 8:9-11) just after you I say all this from personal ate broccoli experience. I felt wonderful after you don’t say, the first time I spoke about the ‘No, you don’t ways in which my sexuality has understand. confused me. I had got everything I brushed off my chest, told everyone my teeth this about my shame and sorrow, and morning.’ others were even prompted to We have to share. But, in a way, I was still be alert and celebrating myself. The way I constantly saw it, in that moment, I had vigilant, done what needed to be done. because our This was it—the new leaf turned fight against

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Sports One problem with exception for Chartwells Friday, Oct. 3 the Sabbath. the athletics program, it are viewed generally as a allowing athletics to occur saying that their work in Women’s Volleyball Covenant attempts to also creates a philosophi- fun pursuit—release from on Sundays is that it the Great Hall is indeed a @ Averett hold true to its motto of cal incongruity in the way the grind of collegiate life. forces people other than ‘necessity.’ 1:00 PM Christ Preeminence in all Covenant puts its own The athletics program at the athletes to work on However it was not Danville, Va. things. This includes ath- preaching into practice. Covenant’s philosophy is the Sabbath. Referees, always that way. In fact, letics, but when it comes Scripture qualifies this that, “the College expects coaches, the scorekeep- the Great Hall being Friday, Oct. 3 to this area, Covenant notion of Sabbath in Mark players, coaches, admin- ing crew, tech services, open on Sundays is a new Women’s Volleyball acts on that philosophy by 2:27 “The Sabbath was istrators, and spectators to photographers, and other development. In the past vs. Ferrum restricting activity to just made for man, and not critically evaluate athlet- supporting cast members it was closed on Sundays 5:00 PM six days—no sports on man for The Sabbath.” ics using a biblical frame all are needed to make because it required work- Danville, Va. Sunday. When Jesus said this he of reference in order to an athletic event function ers on each Sunday. The policy disallows essentially stated that the reclaim it for the service properly. It wouldn't be entirely Saturday, Oct. 4 recreational fitness by Sabbath is for resting from of Christ and the edifica- This would be an easy ludicrous to close it once Women’s Cross Country closing the gym to the worldly toils and anxiety. tion of others… Covenant place to stop and say, more since Covenant func- Maryville Invitational student body. God rested It was not meant to burden views competitive athlet- “You win Covenant.” tioned fine in past times. 9:15 AM from his work, and we are mankind, only as a means ics as a practical means of Covenant is making If the issue is enabling Maryville, Tenn. commanded to follow suit towards an end. glorifying God, enjoying concerted efforts to keep people to work on Sundays which is why Covenant We are to rest from our His physical gifts with the Sabbath holy, and in then Covenant should Saturday, Oct. 4 implements a policy ‘work’ on the Sabbath. gratitude… and par- alignment with scripture. examine its practices in Men’s Cross Country that largely bars athletic Covenant encourages ticipating in God’s global Except in the case of other places. To enforce a Maryville Invitational competition on Sunday. students to rest not only gospel mission.” Chartwells. rule in one instance and 10:15 AM Last year in the from our cultural under- Covenant has essen- Covenant has acted allow a loophole elsewhere Maryville, Tenn. conference tournament, standing of work as a job, tially qualified sports as a as if Chartwells is an is inconsistent with the Covenant’s golf team had but also from our studies, form of worship. Is there exception to each of their school’s main philosophy. Saturday, Oct. 4 to forfeit their final day so, the concept of work something wrong with rules, allowing them to I am making a request JV Women's Soccer of play since it fell on a is extended past earning worship on a Sunday? employ students under for consistency in the vs. Covenant Alumni Sunday. In fact, all pro- money. Worship, especially on the work-study classification, policies here on campus 11:00 AM grams, with the exception By not allowing the Sabbath, fills the soul and and consenting to those regarding The Lord’s Day. Lookout Mountain, Ga. of volleyball, are impacted student-athletes to play helps to prepare it to seek same students working on Either authorize Sunday by this policy. on a Sunday, we are out worship throughout Sundays. games or shut down Saturday, Oct. 4 A good deal of tourna- including sports in the the rest of the week. What makes the situa- Chartwell's. JV Men's Soccer ments and championships category of work. Most Covenant has effectively tion in the Great Hall any The ball is in your vs. Covenant Alumni include Sunday play, but athletes would contend prohibited a form of wor- different than the athletic court/diamond/field/trail/ 1:00 PM by not granting permission that their sport is not a ship on Sundays and has situation? course. Lookout Mountain, Ga.

Saturday, Oct. 4 Women's Soccer vs LaGrange (Homecoming) 5:00 PM Lookout Mountain, Ga.

Saturday, Oct. 4 Men's Soccer vs LaGrange (Homecoming) 7:00 PM Lookout Mountain, Ga.

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