Plagues to Pandemics: What We Can Learn From Early Christianity
If there is one word that many of us would use to define the last year and a half, it would be “unprecedented.” It seems as if this word has been used to describe everything […]
September 2021
Opinion: Short Term Missions: Colonialism or Commission?
Short Term Missions (STMs) have been a hot topic for a long time. Littered with nuance and situational clauses, it is easy to get lost while presenting a case, either for or against the idea. […]
Opinion: The Problem of Short-Term Missions
Every year when I attend Missions Chapel, I am struck once again by the bad taste that short-term missions leaves in my mouth. It is the same taste that lingers after scrolling through Instagram during […]
The Subversive Morality of David Lowery’s The Green Knight
This summer, audiences were treated to an ambitious retelling of the most famous Arthurian legend put to pen and paper. The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel as Sir Gawain and Ralph Ineson as The Green […]
New Club CAIM Cultivates Disability Dialogue
Amid campus-wide conversations of diversity and intersectionality last November, Mikayla Martin was inspired with the vision of creating a platform to share the stories of disabled students at Gordon College. After conversations with Gordon’s Academic […]
Gordon One of Two Private Colleges in Massachusetts to Not Implement a Vaccine Mandate
As students return to campus for the start of the academic year, discussions about the new Covid policies have sparked a wide range of responses to the college’s precautions against the Delta Variant. Currently effective […]
Tartan Vision for 2021
Hello! My name is Kate Walker, and I am the current Editor-in-Chief of the Tartan following Collin Hall. This year, we will continue to report campus events, GCSA and sports updates, and administrative decisions to […]