After reading headlines like “This ‘Imagine’ Cover Is No Heaven” and “The terrible video of celebrities singing ‘Imagine,’ explained,” I was expecting Gal Gadot’s celebrity compilation of ‘Imagine’ to be truly horrific. Instead, I was met with an innocent attempt to bring a little...

Nearly 82,000 people have died. More than 10 million Americans have filed for unemployment. We are encroaching on the peak of COVID-19. During this time of devastation, mass financial insecurity and overwhelming grief, it is insulting to see celebrities flaunting their wealth in an attempt to stay relevant...

The meeting began by putting Student Government Association interns in the “hot seat” in order to get to know them better. The interns, freshman political science major Houston Reece and freshman nursing major Ashley Kroeker, answered questions about themselves from members of the senate.  Immediately...

(This story was originally published in print on Feb. 20, 2020). DANGER OF ANONYMITY  When I was in high school, I was sitting in my freshman English class when a student decided to catapult a paperclip into the back of our substitute teacher’s head. The substitute felt the bald patch where the...

In recent years, social media platforms like Instagram and Youtube have opened the door for anyone to become an influencer, and many children can be now found on these apps. Although social media appears to cause little harm, these platforms are exposing children to inappropriate content and children...

Students in any given week have classes, homework, work internships, not to mention attempting to hold together a semblance of a social life with friends. With everything going on in our lives, we can become tired and struggle with keeping our faith relevant. Vanessa Serrano, a Biola Alum and Director...

This Easter, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber used their social media as platforms for expressing their spirituality. On her Instagram, Perry posted a picture of her wrist, tattooed with the word “Jesus” and captioned with: “My brokenness + God’s divinity = my wholeness” In one of his...

The term “compassion fatigue”—used by journalists to describe the public’s gradual desensitization and apathy to news of war in the electronic age can also be used to describe the behavior people exhibit when they hear another news story about the latest online privacy violation. Most social...