As the author of “Imagining Bowdoin” wrote in 2009, “If there is a yearning I see in the students, faculty and staff here, it is a yearning to believe that we dwell, and that Bowdoin students will forever dwell, in …
I knew K. I sat next to her in class and sparred with her about the political messaging of Christianity. When I was bored during lectures, I would space out and try to figure out what the hell that …
John Winthrop, lauded by the likes of Cotton Mather as the “Moses” of the American people, introduced what would soon become the American holy commandments in his sermon “A Model of Christian Charity.” He preached that “We must …
Back in the old days, when a man graduated from Bowdoin he was a ‘Bowdoin Man,’ whereas when he graduated from Yale he was a ‘Yale Man,’ and somehow there was supposed to be a tangible difference between the …