‘Goodbye June,’ for better or worse, is not your typical Christmas movie.
By Teagan Warren
Christmas time can be the sweetest time of the year for many people, especially for the movie industry. There are many types of Christmas movies, ranging from contemplative ones like “It’s a Wonderful Life” all the way to the violent (but popular) “Die Hard.” “Goodbye June” differs from the standard Christmas movie with its heavy topic — facing the certain death of a loved one. The film felt burdensome with its subject matter, but the humor of everyday ...
‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ is a thematic thriller that left me guessing until the end
By Sophia Monastra
On Good Friday, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks preaches a militant, fiery sermon from the pulpit of Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude. He then walks to a nearby storage closet to fortify himself for the remainder of the service. The door is open and in full view of the stage. The closet is empty. Moments later, Monsignor Wicks is dead, stabbed in the back.
The only other person on stage and the first person to find the body is Reverend Jud Duplenticy, a young boxer-tu...
Testimony Tuesday: Trusting God as her shepherd
by Bella Agnello
Rachel Kimble is an adjunct professor at Cedarville University and teaches a women’s ministry class, but most students know her as Dr. Kimble’s wife. Growing up, she aspired to be a missionary overseas, but God slowly drew her heart back to the United States, where she engages in ministry alongside her husband and lives out her dream job as a mom.
Mrs. Kimble grew up the second youngest of four kids, with parents who were passionate about loving God and serving him. ...
GO Conference: A call to pursue the Great Commission wherever God leads
By Linnea Doughman
Cedarville’s annual GO Conference launched the start of a new semester. A total of seven sessions covered the underlying theme of Christ’s Great Commission. Missions organizations came to Cedarville to engage with students throughout the conference time, sharing opportunities to serve God around the globe. Speakers addressed topics concerning church revitalization, domestic church planting, abiding in Christ, God meeting his people.
Throughout the conference, ...
‘Spy X Family’ Season 3 dives into history for a secret origin
By Katlynn Rossignol
An undercover spy, a deadly assassin and a first grade telepath live together as a make-shift family, each hiding their true identities for the safety of themselves and their missions. With two seasons and a movie already released, “Spy X Family” continued its run with a third season full of slice-of-life antics and action showdowns.
What set this season’s promotions apart from previous ones, is the focus on the mysterious backstory of Loid Forger’s, ...
‘Fallout’ season 2 sets up a risky gamble for the characters
By Carly Shaner
“Everyone wants to save the world. They just disagree on how.”
About 200 years after the entire world is nuked, Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) ventures out to the surface to find her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), who has been captured. She encounters folks like the Ghoul (Walter Goggins), Maximus (Aaron Moten) of the Brotherhood and everything the irradiated world has to offer. After learning through her journey in the wasteland, it’s revealed that her father ...
‘Stranger Things’ Vol. 2 and Finale enters Dimension X
By Danielle Cherry
Ten years after the release of “Stranger Things” season one, the Duffer brothers finished the beloved franchise in a beautiful, yet heart-wrenching final four episodes. Action was a main focus, but the revealing and satisfying conclusion was what won everyone’s hearts.
Vol. 2 picks up on the huge reveal of Will Byers’ syphoned powers. The Duffer’s knew exactly what they were doing, leaving us on such a high during Thanksgiving break.
As the ...
Cedarville faculty hobbies outside of the classroom
By Balen Allain, Megan Deets, and Sierra Perkinson
Stacey Stratton: Stage combat
Pictured is Stacey Stratton, Associate Professor of Theatre and Theatre Program Director. Outside of being a professor, Stratton is passionate about stage combat.
By Balen Allain
Stacey Stratton teaches theatre classes and directs mainstage shows at Cedarville. She also has certification in all forms of stage combat.
Stage combat involves combat like sword fights but also the most physical intera...
The first Christian university to launch ChatGPT Edu campus-wide
By Bella Agnello
On Friday, August 8, Dr. White announced Cedarville University to be the first evangelical Christian university to launch an OpenAI initiative campus-wide.
The decision came as a response to the rapid adaptation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workforce as a time-saving tool. When Dr. White, president of Cedarville, met with the Cabinet on their retreat, they did not immediately set out to make the university the first Christian college to adopt ChatGPT Edu. ...
Bringing light to Germany: Elliot Bostel’s summer mission
By Renée Rucci
This summer, senior Physics major Elliot Bostel traveled with Global Outreach to Berlin, Germany. Together with a team of Cedarville students, he helped support two local churches by running an English camp and a student retreat.
This past spring, Bostel met with a missionary, Steve Dye, who has served in Germany for the past 23 years.
“I got really excited because that's a place that is close to my heart, and I'm considering going long term,” Bostel ...
