Has Modern Hollywood lost its grit?
By Ben Konuch
There’s a fascinating trend sweeping through modern blockbuster films, and if you look hard enough, you may be able to spot it underneath all the action and spectacle. Hollywood is not necessarily in danger of bad writing, bad acting or even anything to do with visual effects, and it’s certainly not the empty accusation that Hollywood is no longer creative.
No, my issue with modern Hollywood is something that I’ve seen grow over the last decade and came into ...
Testimony Tuesday: Dr. Smallwood
By Bella Agnello
“To get me to look more like Jesus, it’s probably going to be a painful process.”
Dr. Will Smallwood was only two and a half years into his new position as vice president of Advancement at Cedarville University when God would begin to radically deepen his faith. During Homecoming of 2023, Smallwood experienced a debilitating pain in his spine. Because his team is heavily involved in engaging with alumni during Homecoming, he prayed for God to get him through the ...
Beans & Cream: New owners take over for original owners
By Avonlea Brown
“Let’s meet up for coffee sometime!”
“Sure, where?”
“How about Beans?”
On the corner of West Xenia Avenue and Main Street, the coffee shop and meeting spot Beans-n-Cream holds a prominent place in the Village of Cedarville. Yet, the change of owners in 2024 leaves questions as to the ability of Beans to remain a staple in town.
On November 1, Paul and Diane Cope, the longtime owners of Beans in Cedarville, sold the coffee shop to Ben and ...
Cedarville Student shares Christ with women in a battle between hope and fear
By Sam Sofio
For the past three years, Delaney Schmutte has counseled scared, desperate and hopeless pregnant women who consider abortion as their only escape in their battle between hopeand fear.
Schmutte, a senior Biblical Studies major with an emphasis in Biblical Counseling, serves at the Pregnancy Resource Clinic of Clark County, where God uses her as a vessel to pour out the hope and love of Christ into fearful hearts – the same hope and love that she received when she was ...
Cedarville’s most Passionate Sport: Club Rugby
By Danielle Cherry
A circle of blue and yellow moves in unison across the grassy soccer-length field.
“Oooh ole ole; ole tiki tonga; a wasa wasa wasa; oooh aliyah aliyah aliyah”
Excitement is tangible in the air as the team echoes the chant, quietly at first, almost an unheard whisper in the field. Then, a singular scream penetrates the atmosphere, and a cry rises up from the team. Bouncing off of each other and jumping with all their might, the Cedarville men’s rugby team ...
Global Outreach’s Local Teams make an Impac
By Julia Swan
Students bring hope to the hopeless through jail ministry
“We exist to bring hope to the hopeless,” said fourth-year M-Div student Owen Dorrity. “We want to engage in the Great Commission. The Lord tells us in Matthew 28 to go therefore and make disciples of all nations. And that’s just something we just want to see realized in every aspect of the world and inour community.”
This student-run mission involves sending students such as Dorrity to jails ...
What is woke?
By Janie Walenda
The day before the new Marvel television show “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” debuted, its lead voice actor Hudson Thames sparked controversy in a conversationwith Collider.
“I mean, my biggest fear was that it was gonna be annoying and woke, and it wasn’t, and I was like ‘Yes this is great, it’s so well written.’”
When viewers tuned in the following day, the controversy quickly turned to confusion. Within the first two episodes ...
Haven Sidell: Managing Costume Creation
By Katlynn Rossignol
“You think of the stereotypical costumer; and she’s like, frizzed and frazzled and running around and always has a measuring tape on her neck,” said Haven Sidell, Cedarville University’s costume shop manager. “The number of times I’ve left the shop and forgotten to take my measuring tape off my neck is so many. It’s definitely a stereotype for a reason.”
It’s hard to describe the vast scale of the costume shop storage hidden on the ...
Sidelining Sundays: The impact of youth sports
By Emily Tuttle
You’ve seen it before: dozens of five-year-old girls running around on a soccer field dressed in purple jerseys, worried more about picking dandelions than putting the ball in the goal.
The game doesn’t stop at five. As these children grow up, weekends are full of traveling to the next state for a tournament. And parents continue to swipe their credit cards for uniforms, team fees, hotels and anything needed for their child to succeed.
But should success be ...
‘The Last of Us’ season two starts quiet but strong
By Ben Konuch
“You can't heal something unless you're brave enough to say it out loud.”
When “The Last of Us” premiered on HBO in 2022, it quickly became one of the most well-received video game adaptations of all time. Following a harrowing journey across a violent post-apocalyptic America, HBO’s “The Last of Us” focused more on the human drama of loss, grief and love than it did on action. Anchored by stellar lead performances by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, the series ...
