Mind

There’s something about the beautiful weather that we’ve been having lately that simply demands open windows and loud music. I was prompted to consider this the other day as I was driving around Brantford doing errands. The radio was cranked the loudest it’s been in months and I was enjoying the warm sunlight through the bent sunglasses I had dug out of the side door of my car.

It’s that time of year again. Students are busy preparing for exams and writing final papers, looking forward to a summer free from deadlines and grading. For some of you, summer-time means relaxing at the family cottage, touring Europe, and working on your tan.

One of the goals of Christian higher education, and of Redeemer itself, is to shape the minds of its students in a way that changes how they think, criticize, and react to the events around us. Admittedly, we put a great deal of faith into the people at the top, expecting them to find, select, and hire the kind of people who will both challenge what we think, and who will give us the kind of wisdom that comes with a critically thinking, active mind.

ANTIGONISH, N.S. (CUP) — For the second year in a row, the office of the Governor General is running a mentorship program like no other — by pairing young Canadians with recipients Order of Canada.

Now in its second year, students participating in the Order of Canada Mentorship Program are calling it an “incredible opportunity.”

In 2008, Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean initiated the program to pair young Canadian adults between the ages of 18 to 25 with recipients of the Order of Canada.

When all is said and done, there are two things that I don't quit like as I approach the end of my university career. One of them is writers that use clichéd, overblown lines to open their paragraphs. The other is more serious, and although it is not isolated to the Redeemer community, it is far from foreign.  Some well-meaning Christians mistake their gut instincts for a conviction of truth, and call their actions zealous.

Many may groan when they hear this first point, but still, we must consider the effect of Mr. Lewis’s worldview on his presentation. Stephen Lewis made clear in his presentation that he is a philanthropist who hates the Church and the scriptures. This means that everything he said is coloured to the point that it is practically unusable for us as Christians. When he named a statistic he talked about causes and such. This can be misleading due to his purposes and lack of knowledge of God.

Universities, as a group, get a bad rap for promoting a liberal bias, and a lot of people, including a few from our own community, are asking ‘why’. It could be that the university community is more prone to public protest. It could also be that a false reputation has persisted from those hippies that emerged from the Cold War cloud, insisting on questioning the established order. Maybe each generation is just bound to battle with the precedents and patterns of the generation before. Perhaps it is our

I appreciate exams because they provide schools with an efficient way to judge whether students have actually grasped hold of the material covered in their courses. They force students to be responsible for the material and they give them and incentive to learn the material. As students we know what to expect because we have had to write exams and tests throughout our entire education, except maybe kindergarten and grade one.