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Month: February 2018

“The Best We Could Do” by Thi Bui

Quinton Bent Written by Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do is an autobiography about the life of Thi Bui. This story opens up with the grueling and complex birth […]

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 Quinton Bent Book Reviews

Word of the Day: Captious

Paul Schleifer Word of the Day: Captious According to Dictionary.com, definitions for captious include 1. apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding; difficult to please. […]

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 Paul Schleifer Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Voluble

Paul Schleifer February 27 2018 Word of the Day: Voluble We’re on a run of words that have to do with talking. Voluble means “chatty, gabby, mouthy, talkative, characterized by […]

February 27, 2018February 27, 2018 Paul Schleifer Word of the Day

Dusenbergs, Faith, and Family―An Interview with Dr. Randolph Johnson

Jahanna Bolding Dr. Randolph Johnson is the Dean of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Music at Southern Wesleyan University. Before his career at SWU, Dr. Johnson taught at […]

February 27, 2018September 5, 2018 Jahanna Schwab Conversations

“Claiming to be Wise, they Became Fools”—Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Amanda Platz My ancestors certainly were not normal people. They believed in a male shapeshifter god who gave birth to an eight-legged horse, for starters. They also believed that this […]

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 Amanda Platz Book Reviews

Word of the Day: Garrulous

Paul Schleifer February 26 2018 Word of the Day: Garrulous Garrulous means “excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters,” according to dictionary.com. Synonyms include prating, babbling, […]

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 Paul Schleifer Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Jabber

Paul Schleifer February 25 2018 Word of the Day: Jabber Jabber is both a noun and a verb. As a verb, it means “to talk or utter rapidly, indistinctly, incoherently, […]

February 25, 2018 Paul Schleifer Word of the Day

Requiescat in pace, Reverend Billy Graham—Goodbye and Thank You

CIFC Staff Today is the first Sunday many of us have ever known without the Reverend Billy Graham. Many of us were introduced to his ministry by our parents and […]

February 25, 2018March 14, 2018 Chad Chisholm Commentary

Word of the Day: Idiosyncrasy

Paul Schleifer, SWU Professor February 24 2018 Word of the Day: idiosyncrasy The first definition of idiosyncrasy that one finds in the dictionary is usually “a tendency, type of behaviour, mannerism, […]

February 24, 2018February 24, 2018 Paul Schleifer Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Vacillate

Paul Schleifer February 23 2018 Word of the Day: vacillate Vacillate: 1. to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute; 2. to sway unsteadily; waver; totter; stagger; 3. […]

February 23, 2018February 24, 2018 Paul Schleifer Word of the Day

Stranded on Mars

Sam Michalski Artemis is a novel written by Andy Weir in 2017, the author of the acclaimed novel, The Martian.  The setting is lunar rather than Martian, but otherwise it’s […]

February 21, 2018February 21, 2018 Sam Michalski Book Reviews

Madness and Sanity—G.K. Chesterton and the Decay of Modern Reason

Marshall Tankersley The line between madness and sanity is not always a clear one. Sometimes, the very best ideas require out-of-the-box thinking that may seem like madness upon first blush […]

February 20, 2018February 20, 2018 Marshall Tankersley Book Reviews

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