I believe in The Bell Tower because my mother believed in me. And more than that, she believed that through our imperfect and broken learning, we were connecting ourselves to the grand mystery and adventure of the world: a story that demands our attention, captivates our hearts, and cultivates our affections. I was homeschooled, and …
Continue reading “REFLECTION: Ava Arendt – Humanities Editor”
The field of social science is as divided as an academic field can be. True science must compete with the ever-growing menace of pseudo-science for attention and time in the media. Scientists debate endlessly as to whether qualitative or quantitative research suits the field better. In the political world, politicians seek out studies with ideologically …
Continue reading “REFLECTION: Margaret Boyce – Social Sciences Editor”
“All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD.”1 What an honor it has been to be a part of The Bell Tower, a publication that seeks to worship God through his works. Specifically, The Bell Tower provides an outlet for his works – the students of Hope – to relay the Lord’s creative, …
Continue reading “REFLECTION: Sarah Stevenson – Natural Sciences Editor and Photographer”
On the top shelf of one of the many bookcases in my family’s home sits a row of hymnals that have accumulated over my time as a church musician and over my parents’ lives as churchgoers. Sometimes I will select one arbitrarily and flip through the pages, noticing which hymns are included and which aren’t, …
Continue reading “REFLECTION: Sander Owens – Managing Editor”
If Jeanne Guion is right to name prayer as “the application of the heart to God,”1 perhaps education, in its purest form, can be a form of prayer. For education would seem most fundamentally to entail an ongoing alignment of one’s soul with truth, and there is no truth more fundamental than Christ, who is …
Continue reading “REFLECTION: Lydia Harrison – Editor in Chief”
