For the past five years, every spring the Asbury community has descended on Hughes Auditorium to join together and watch a grouping of student-made films, an event affectionately called the Highbridge Film Festival. Now, I am no film critic, but I have been asked to give a review of the films this year as well as the event on the whole, so let’s get it started.

The Community Enrichment proposal was passed through ACSC on April 21. The motion suggests creating a unified system of community hours, which would include the closing times of campus facilities as well as curfew.

Katie Payne’s two-part article has certainly brought to the fore a topic that needs to be addressed with honesty, boldness and compassion on the part of the community of faith. While there were many arguments presented in Katie’s piece, each of which merits reflection and response, I want to touch on just one of the biblical texts she mentioned in her arguments. I believe that her handling of Romans 1 represents a glaring example of a common hermeneutical error: employing eisegesis (reading something into the text from an already chosen perspective) rather than an honest exegesis (letting the text speak out its message to us as readers).

The Asbury softball team has made quite an impact on the softball program in their inaugural season back on the field after five years.