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Introducing our newest interns

Submitted 01-25-2012 under OPINION

We searched high and low, long and hard, and we found four incredible people that will join our team to keep The Rapidian working towards excellence. While these interns just started, and you may never have the pleasure of meeting them, we thought...

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Creating content on The Rapidian: Embedding a video

Submitted 01-23-2012 under OPINION

In past "Tricks of the Trade" episodes, you've learned about adding an article, adding a calendar event, pitching a story and including hyperlinks in your Rapidian articles.  Sometimes, though, you...

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Activist Adam Taylor calls for mobilizing hope

Submitted 01-19-2012 under OPINION

Social justice has been a theme highlighted throughout this year's Calvin College January Series, not least by Monday's speaker Adam Taylor, an emerging voice among a new generation of Christian activists. Having worked in the Carr...

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Salatin dances with dinner, urges others to do the same

Submitted 01-19-2012 under OPINION

In a January Series lecture titled “Dancing With Dinner,” alternative farmer Joel Salatin promoted a radical change in the way we think about food and its production. Salatin, a self-proclaimed “Christian libertarian environmental...

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GRCMC and Rapidian sites go dark Wednesday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Submitted 01-17-2012 under OPINION

The Grand Rapids Community Media Center website will be going dark from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, January 18th. As a part of GRCMC, The Rapidian will also be going dark during this time.  Purportedly aimed at curbing Internet piracy,...

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Lyons offers new vision for Christianity in America

Submitted 01-16-2012 under OPINION

For the last century, Gabe Lyons told to a full audience at Calvin College on Tuesday, Jan. 11, American Christians have been telling a half-truth, a message of sin and salvation that by itself is “incoherent.” Lyons compared preaching...

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Creating content on The Rapidian: Hyperlinks

Submitted 01-16-2012 under OPINION

When creating an article on The Rapidian, it's important to share the source of your information and the claims found in your article. You may also want to help your readers find more information about an issue, subject or event. If you were...

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Gerson on Christianity and politics

Submitted 01-13-2012 under OPINION

Nationally syndicated political columnist Michael Gerson brought his vision of Christian political engagement to Calvin’s Covenant Fine Arts Center on Thursday as part of the college’s 2012 January Series. Gerson, coauthor of City of Man...

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Fresh and new: New Picturesque gallery open to public participation

Submitted 01-12-2012 under OPINION

From January 12 to February 12, we will be featuring a special photo gallery, "Fresh and new," as the new Picturesque theme. Last year, we challenged our community to submit photos to a Picturesque gallery that asked people what they loved...

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Metaxas visits Calvin, discusses Bonhoeffer

Submitted 01-10-2012 under OPINION

Eric Metaxas did not set out to say anything new with his biography Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Martyr, Spy. He simply wanted to tell some stories that various populaces—academic elites and the Church among them—“need to know....

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