By Morgan Moser It feels like it was a few months ago that I hopped out of my mom’s car one late summer morning and started walking into an unfamiliar school building that would be my new school for the next four years. A blink and a half later, I am sitting at home. A …
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I rang in 2020 from Jackson, Wyoming, and was excited to be stepping into the new year with new goals, ambitions, and expectations. Little did I know that my world, and everyone else’s, would soon be turned upside down. After getting back home to North Carolina, life was normal for a while. I started a …
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My hands move so fast I don’t even realize what they are doing- building ice castles that melt into puddles, scavenging for materials to hide the shame, enslaving themselves to endless work. The idealistic outcomes and lies drive me forward, a little girl chasing the wind like a fool. I escape under the covers, hoping …
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“True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His promises.” -Francis Chan I am a firm believer that everyone should always be growing in something; for me, it’s my faith. While I also try to be intentional about growing in other areas, my faith is by far the …
A 5 year old dreams. At 5 I aspired to be the oversized-sweater, big-smile-at-the-lake, 1999 version of Britney Spears. You dreamt of being an artisan apple dumpling maker and a firefighting paleontologist. 5 year olds are blind socialites, figuring out people and testing boundaries. They have wild visions of jungles and pirate ships. They have …
Teary-eyed Goodbyes/ Addii con le lacrime agli occhi (italiano sotto) Although I will always want to be back in Bologna, where time moves as slow as your pace of step during a passeggiata, but also so quickly that 5.5 months came and went with a blink of an eye- it was time for me to …
Living as Light I just wanted to update y’all with how I’m doing and share one thing I’m learning. Since the University of Bologna has 100,000 students, I’m absolutely burdened when I go to class and know that because <1% of Bologna is evangelical Christian, the chance that any of my peers here have heard …
The Rainbow Trail in Florence This past weekend I had the most fantastic day and Firenze is now my favorite city in the world! Some American friends and I originally wanted to go because the annual Chocolate Festival is happening throughout February. So, Friday we made the decision to go and on Saturday morning I …
I love New Years- it’s something about the glitter, the date changing from one year to the next, and being surrounded by people I love. On the eve of January 1, 2014, I was in Washington, DC at a Campus Outreach Conference that brought together ~750 college students from all over the East coast. We …
In July 1984, Jennifer Thompson, at the time a student at Elon College, was victim to a brutal sexual assault. After her house was broken into and she was raped at gunpoint, Jennifer escaped. Picking Cotton is the memoir that covers this case, and also the story behind how Ronald Cotton was victim to mistaken identity, set …
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