Editor’s Note: What’s Your Story?

June 9, 2010 • written by Maritza Cosano Gomez, Editor-in-Chief  
Filed under Editor's Note, featured

Just as the middle school Choir and Band Spring Concert was coming to an end last Monday night, a parent turned to me and offered this thought. “These students are incredible. But I hope they leave the legacy that you might not always be the most talented group, or you might not have the best voice,... Read more »

Editorial: Writing His Message

December 10, 2009 • written by Maritza Cosano Gomez  
Filed under Commentary, Editor's Note, featured

“What’s black and white and completely over?” Jon Stewart quipped last year around this time on his Comedy Central show. “It’s newspapers.” Not so fast, Mr. Stewart, say publishers, writers and readers across the nation. Okay, so the Internet certainly is giving dailies a run for their money... Read more »

What We Can Learn at CCA

May 28, 2009 • written by Jessica Matthews  
Filed under Commentary, Editor's Note, featured

Tomorrow, the Class of 2009 will take one last look around the halls where we spent the last four years of our lives. And no doubt the one thing in our minds will be all the great things we learned from CCA and all the good times we had here. But on this day in late May, some will also take a last look... Read more »

Purity

February 25, 2009 • written by Jessica Matthews  
Filed under Editor's Note

Somewhere along the line of trying to understand purity, I think we have missed the point. Well educated by purity conferences and lectures on abstinence, still some Christian students may have begun to view purity as an endless list of guidelines, or barriers regarding relations with the opposite sex—a... Read more »

Praying for the Holy Land

February 19, 2009 • written by Jessica Matthews  
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The Land Flowing with Milk and Honey has recently been raining with missiles and gunfire. Having had withstood attacks from the terrorist organization Hamas for years, Israel began to retaliate in December of 2008, and initiated a ground invasion in the Gaza Strip on January 3, 2009. While the world... Read more »

Prophets to the President

February 12, 2009 • written by Jessica Matthews  
Filed under Commentary, Editor's Note

You do not have to work in the Oval Office or answer a senate roll call to have your own ideas about running the government. We live in a nation where the government, as Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, is “by the people”—the government is you and I. And yet, I think we forget... Read more »

Beyond All That We Ask or Think

February 3, 2009 • written by Jessica Matthews, Managing Editor  
Filed under Commentary, Editor's Note, featured

Every mountain climb begins with an initial step, and though we seldom comprehend the significance of such a seemingly small step right from the start, retrospect gradually clarifies our understanding. As we glimpse toward the base of the mountain and realize how far we have climbed, we begin to comprehend... Read more »