Editor's Note: At the beginning of Lent, I composed a short reflection based on some of the readings from scripture...
Read moreWil Welch's scriptural reflections return for the New Year, continuing on the subject of 1 Peter.
Read more"This “living hope” is “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you,” that is for...
Read more"Saint Peter turns from blessing his reader to blessing the blessed God (1 Timothy 1:11), the eternal triune Majesty from...
Read more"The apostle continues that his elected and exiled hearers had received “sprinkling with blood” (1 Peter 1:2). As Leo the...
Read more"Not only do Christians obey our Lord Jesus through the power of the Spirit. They are also sprinkled with his...
Read more"Saint Peter began his first epistle, as our several previous devotions discussed, by noting his apostolic credentials and by designating...
Read more"However, this “exile” which Peter describes, while certainly historical, also has a significant spiritual dimension. Exile is a key theme...
Read moreThis past Saturday, pro-divestment protestors, led by the group “Resist WashU” attempted to set up an encampment on WashU’s Danforth Campus.
Recently on both the WashU Campus and in the surrounding neighborhoods, there have been many signature gatherers for a proposed referendum on abortion that the ACLU is trying to put onto the Missouri ballot this fall. This signature gatherers usually phrase their support of the referendum as being about “choice,” or “women’s rights,” and very rarely discuss what the referendum would actually do.
Every year, WashU hosts an event called “Bear Beginnings” for admitted students to learn about the university before committing. This event, which only resumed in 2022 after being canceled for several years due to COVID, is probably the least political event that one can think of.
Boeing, to put it mildly, has not had a good 2024. Among its concerns, parts keep flying off of its commercial planes, and (as of April 11th) the value of a share of its stock has declined from $257.28 to $173.36 since January 1st. However, one of the concerns that the leaders of Boeing will not be losing sleep over is the quixotic and nonbinding resolution passed by WashU’s Student Union (SU) for the university to divest from the embattled aerospace company.