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Swinging Bridge - April 2024, Ethan Reisler

Student Newspapers & Magazines

Issue contents include:

• Playlist
  • Sabrina's Pulse-Picks Playlist
• Summer Jobs
• The Swinging Bridge Devotional
  • Written By Students, For Students
• The Road Back Home
  • Returning Home Over Summer
• Ramos & Kovalchick
• Next Year’s Presidential Elect
• The International Gala
• A Two Phase Plan
  • Starry Athletic Complex’s Constructions
• Senior Spotlight
• Got Breakfast?
  • Lottie And Union’s Reduced Hours
• Generational Shifts
  • Engaging Faith In Gen Z
• A Sisterhood Of Swimmers
• A Year In Review
• Movie Reviews
• Satire

Swinging Bridge - March 2024, Ethan Reisler

Student Newspapers & Magazines

Issue contents include:

• Playlist
  • Sabrina's Valentine's Mixtape
• A Roof Over Your Head
  • Special Interest Housing
• Wizard Battle
  • A Cultivation Of Creative Genuity
• The Swinging Bridge Devotional
  • Written By Students, For Students
• The Lady Falcons
  • A Women's Basketball Dynasty
• Balancing Nutrition Under Dietary Restrictions
• A Revolution Of Missional Athletes
  • Sports For God's Glory
• Sexuality And Gender Education
• Messiah's Gym Culture
• The Culmination Of Craft
  • Senior Art Galleries
• Movie Reviews
• Satire

Swinging Bridge - February 2024, Ethan Reisler

Student Newspapers & Magazines

Contents of issue:

• Playlist
  • Sabrina's Valentine's Mixtape
• Ambassadors For Residential Ministry
• I attended
  • A New Approach To Chapel Attendance
• The Swinging Bridge Devotional
  • Written By Students, For Students
• Words Without Faces
  • Anonymous Social Media On Campus
• The Road Back Home
  • Returning From Study Abroad
• Honors Program Pivots
  • The Future Of Gpa Requirements
• Chris Nyachiwowa
  • A First-Generation Student Athlete
• Reinforcing Dining Dollar Policy
  • Lottie’s Student Discount
• Intramural Sports
  • Students As Players And Referees
• Movie Reviews
• Satire

Swinging Bridge - December 2023, Ethan Reisler

Student Newspapers & Magazines

Issue contents include:

• Playlist
  • Sabrina's Sweater Weather Soundtracks
• Sink Or Swim
  • Managing Stress
• The Swinging Bridge Devotional
  • Written By Students, For Students
• Meet The Managers
• The Special Olympics
  • Messiah's Original Service Day
• Service Animals
  • An Expansion To The Student Body
• Man VS. Machine
  • The Writing Center's Place Amongst AI
• Student Art Submissions
• Movie Reviews
• Satire

Swinging Bridge - November 2023, Ethan Reisler

Student Newspapers & Magazines

Issue contents include:

• Playlist
  • Sabrina's Sweater Wheather Soundtracks
• November Calender
  • Student Event's On Cmapus
• Dr. Ye
  • Pioneering Chinese Language And Culture At Messiah
• Off Campus Hangout Destinations
  • Students Favorite Places To Visit Off Campus
• The Swinging Bridge Devotional
  • Written By Students, For Students
• Expiration Dates
• Spreading Love Near And Far
• Featured Club
  • Spikeball

Swinging Bridge - October 2023, Ethan Reisler

Student Newspapers & Magazines

Issue contents include:

• The Swinging Bridge Devotional
  • Written By Students By Students
• Playlist
  • Indie Introductions
• Merging Physical And Mental Healthcare
  • How The Engle Centers
  • Addition Aims To Benifit All
• The Falcon Dictionary
  • For First Year Students
• Poolside Faith
  • Joshua Clarke's Christ Centered Swim Team
• Movie Reveiws
• Photospread
• Satire

Handbooks, Policies, And Power: Discursive Language And Lgbtqia+ Representation In Christian University Handbooks, Kaitlin Merlino

Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate

For many years, tensions have existed between Christianity and the LGBTQ community, most apparent in contexts such as politics and education. One site of conflict is within the realm of Christian higher education, specifically in regards to campus-wide regulation of same-sex behaviors. This research examines the language in sexuality-based rules as communicated in four Christian universities' handbooks. Bakhtin & Holquist (1981) demonstrate the innate tension between dialogue and the social context within which it is understood. Therefore, since language is not neutral, the words creating these rules are in themselves a site of tension for the university, its contributors, its …

Religious Orientation And Coping In Third Culture Kids, Kayla Zerbe

Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate

This study examines the correlation between religious orientation and religious coping in Third Culture Kids (TCKs). Young adult TCKs often struggle with their identity, mental health, and cultural adjustment during the reentry process. Despite the unique struggles TCKs experience, very little research has been done on this population. Religion may play a role in the reentry process as support, challenge, or way of coping. The present study examines religion in TCKs through the lens of motivation, using the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS), which measures intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation, and the Brief RCOPE, which measures positive and negative religious coping. …

A Mother’S Prayer Through The Five Words Of A Son With Autism, Melinda S. Burchard Ph.D.

Faculty Educator Scholarship

Recently, my friend has been figuring out that her child has autism, processing what that means for education, for church, and for family life. She grapples with lost expectations, daily challenges, confusion, and isolation. My parenting journey is not her own, but I relate to her pain and her hopes. I wrote this first for her and now share this piece in love specifically for parents of children with disabilities. Through a very specific lens of parenting a child with a disability, using the five words of my son with severe autism, I reflect upon the deep meaning of the …

Christianity, Feminism, And Identity Development In Christian Higher Education, Kaitlin Merlino

Communication Student Scholarship

Identity formation acts as an important part of human development. At the same time, some difficulty occurs when a person attempts to hold two identities that seemingly contradict. For those that identify as both feminists and Christians, this dilemma creates difficulties. As these two identity camps have been on opposing ends of a variety of issues for years, some may even feel unable to claim both of these labels simultaneously. At the same time, some can hold the values of each even as they reject the identity labels. The context of higher education provides students with an environment where they …

Perspectives And Practical Strategies For Disability-Related Behavior Challenges In Ministries To Children And Youth, Melinda S. Burchard Ph.D.

Faculty Educator Scholarship

Challenging behaviors happen, even within Sunday schools and ministries to children and youth. This essay explores spiritual and theoretical perspectives about disability and addressing behaviors. Teachers, leaders and volunteers may benefit from example practical strategies for planning for and responding to such challenging behaviors, especially the social, emotional and behavioral challenges related to disability.

The Application Of Faith And Learning: Faith-Based Anchor Institutions And Community Engagement, Theresa Harrison, Dottie Weigel, Melinda Smith

HNES Educator Scholarship

Higher education institutions face many competing priorities and are still expected to serve the public good. Faith-based institutions, in particular, aim to meet a faith-inspired calling and serve the communities in which they are situated while guiding students in their faith formation by integrating service and academic priorities. In this paper, the authors explore, through a case study methodology, the unique positionality of Messiah University, a faith-based university located near the capital city of Harrisburg, PA. Specifically, this study explores the impact of a community engaged course with an urban nonprofit agency.

Bridging General Education And The Business Discipline: Surfacing Central Themes Through A Core Course, Jennifer Dose

Business Educator Scholarship

General education and business major courses often follow parallel paths with little intersection or appreciation of the other. Students benefit, however, by seeing key themes and skills linked to both general education and specialized disciplinary courses. Giving specific attention to Christian institutions, this paper argues for more intentional connections between these two parts of the curriculum, highlighting their common ideals of shared learning, shared connections as human beings, practical skills, institutional distinctiveness, and integration. One strategy to overcome the bifurcation of general education and business curricula has been to ground institutional distinctives within a core course experience, which can then …

For Such A Time And Place As This: Christian Higher Education For The Common Good, Cynthia Wells

Higher Education Faculty Scholarship

One might argue that this is not a wise time to raise queries of the common good for Christian higher education. Our in-boxes and newsfeeds provide persistent reminders of the crises facing higher education today, many of which uniquely impact Christian colleges and universities. A crisis of the humanities, as students turn away from areas of study traditionally associated with the liberal arts. A crisis of cost, as independent colleges wrestle with an unsustainable financial model and an increasingly skeptical constituency. An enrollment crisis amid declines in the number of high school graduates, especially in the northeast and midwest. Colleges …

“We Don't Talk About That Here": Teachers, Religion, Public Elementary Schools And The Embodiment Of Silence, A Binational United States And Israel Study, Tina Keller, Amy Camardese, Randa Abbas

Faculty Educator Scholarship

Globally religious diversity is on the rise yet the place of religion in public schools is often heatedly debated. This study examined the experiences of fifth graders in regards to religion in public schools in the United States and Israel. The juxtaposition of diverse countries and school settings opens the dialogue to examine how children and their teachers perceive the impact of religion while in school. The findings suggest that the impact of minority status, school curriculum, and the political and geographical contexts of schools impact the ways that religion is conceptualized in public elementary schools. In addition, the uniquenesses …

Method, Macintyre, And Pedagogy: Inviting Students To Participate In Theology As A Living Conversation, Richard Crane

Bible & Religion Educator Scholarship

Teaching theology within academic institutions with confessional commitments and theologically conservative students requires holding together, in creative tension, two pedagogical goals. The challenge is to promote rigorous academic inquiry by encouraging student openness to engagement with perspectives that challenge their own beliefs while simultaneously constructing a course that is experienced as a safe space where students do not feel their personal faith is under attack. This essay presents the argument that a methodological framework for introductory theology courses informed by Alasdair MacIntyre's reflections on the nature of living traditions holds great promise for achieving these objectives. The essay will also …

A Distinctive Vision For The Liberal Arts: General Education And The Flourishing Of Christian Higher Education, Cynthia Wells

Higher Education Faculty Scholarship

This article argues that a coherent and inspired general education program, infused with a deliberate vision of the liberal arts, is crucial to the flourishing of Christian higher education. This article begins by describing the context and status of general education, emphasizing how this element of the educational program falls short in embodying a distinctive mission of Christian higher education. This article then contends that a vibrant vision of general education will be grounded in particular aspects of a liberal arts education that fulfill crucial outcomes of the Christian university, specifically cultivating the formal virtues and fostering meaning and purpose. …

Swinging Bridge - April 16, 2015, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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A Teaching Strategy For A Christian Virtual Environment, Andrew Babyak

Business Educator Scholarship

The current landscape in education is changing rapidly as online learning programs are experiencing great growth. As online learning grows, many professors and students are entering into new learning environments for the first time. While online learning has proven to be successful in many cases, it is not a journey upon which Christian professors or students should begin without some preparation. This article articulates a basic Christian teaching strategy by providing recommendations for those who are entering the online environment for the first time or desire to improve their online teaching effectiveness. These principles and recommendations are presented so that …

Swinging Bridge - March 5, 2015, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - February 19, 2015, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - February 5, 2015, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - December 11, 2014, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - November 20, 2014, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - November 6, 2014, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - October 30, 2014, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - October 16, 2014, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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When God Smites: Talking With Students About The Violence Of God In Scripture, Eric A. Seibert

Bible & Religion Educator Scholarship

This article emphasizes the need for religious educators to address the issue of divine violence in Scripture with students, and it offers various pedagogical strategies for doing so. The focus is on violent Old Testament texts, with special attention given to the issue of Canaanite genocide. A general framework for structuring class time around divine violence in Scripture is proposed which includes (1) encouraging students to encounter violent biblical texts firsthand, (2) helping them understand why people find these passages problematic, and (3) offering various options for dealing with the potential problems these passages raise. In the second half of …

Swinging Bridge - September 25, 2014, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - September 11, 2014, Joel Hoover

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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