Column: A Lenten Reflection

Column: A Lenten reflection

The universe is 13.8 billion years old. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Traditional evolutionary theory places human beings (homo sapiens) as having appeared on the scene 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. The latest estimate is 300,000 years.

Students on campus celebrate Lenten season

As campus longs for greener weather to overtake bare trees and brittle grass, some students partake in a period of waiting, reflection and penitence for the Lenten season, a liturgical season in Christianity. Liturgical seasons are meant to coincide with important moments in the life of Jesus, and Lenten mirrors Jesus’s 40 days of fasting in the desert. For participants, it includes 40 days of fasting and almsgiving for the betterment of the sou…