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Sister Stacie Gagnon poses for a photo along side fellow Catholic sisters. - Photo via Sistersfmihm.org

Convent of Catholic sisters neighbors Rowan’s campus

Abigail Twiford March 27, 2024

On Ellis Street, across the street from the Rowan-owned parking lot and just down the street from buildings that house classrooms that hundreds of students move through every day, in a large, light-brown...

Challenging the divine: Cynthia Mailman's feminist art and "The Origins of God"

Challenging the divine: Cynthia Mailman’s feminist art and “The Origins of God”

Al Harmon November 8, 2023

Some people have committed their lives to questioning conventional narratives and pushing limits in the fields of art history and feminist studies. Cynthia Mailman, an outspoken feminist artist who has...

The best way to deal with religious protesters is a lot easier then you think: ignore them. - Multimedia Editor / Drew Peltzman

Harmon: The best way to deal with religious protesters is easy, ignore them

Al Harmon September 20, 2023

By now, we've all seen it. The religious fanatics who shout at students as they walk to class or back to their dorms from the sidewalk. They hold signs about premarital sex, the impending return of God,...

Members of New Life Ministry work on their Prayer Vision Boards. - Intern / Bryant Lopez

New Life Ministry applies Christian spin to TikTok trend

Bryant Lopez January 25, 2023

On Monday, Jan. 23, New Life Ministry held a prayer vision board meeting at Discovery Hall in Room 215. New Life Ministry provided supplies for students to make their own prayer vision boards, which outline...

"Her work is so alluring I’ve found it difficult to shift from her music to something else. I feel stuck inside the story of this preacher’s daughter. I believe this track is about her struggle with God and the difficulties of fitting in with her religious community. Everything will be okay if they just drag her out by the back of her ankles to the church." - Arts & Entertainment Editor / Al Harmon.

Religious trauma & resonant melodies: Unpacking Ethel Cain’s “Preacher’s Daughter”

Daniela Garofalo November 2, 2022

https://open.spotify.com/album/3WmujGwOS0ANHkJRnMH6n8?si=YSR4Y4UfSAWMHFLW9gmV1w Ethel Cain’s “Preacher’s Daughter” is a concept album — a story told by a girl who exists in an afterlife...

Harvard University's "Their Names" project assembled a list of 28,000 American citizens who died due to police violence since 2000, many of whose names were never released by police departments. In this opinion piece, Rossen responds to Tepper's piece, which makes mention of police violence. - Photo via Harvard Gazette

Rossen: Response to Tepper’s Derek Chauvin Opinion

Alex Rossen May 5, 2021

I would like to start by thanking Daniel Tepper for sharing his views with The Whit to be published this past Friday. The Whit is made better by students from a diverse set of ideologies and perspectives...

Jack Trabucco discusses why he feels we should start asking questions and having difficult conversations, rather than judging others for their beliefs in this week's "The Student Side." - Graphics Editor / Jana Jackstis

The Student Side: Why you Should Stop Judging a Book by its Cover and Start Engaging in Conversation

Jack Trabucco April 5, 2021

I’d like to begin this week’s column with a story of something miraculous that happened to me recently. Over Easter weekend, I went back home to Toms River. There, I had lunch with a friend, whom...

The 2018 Catholic Campus Ministry Advent wreath lighting recognized and celebrated the Catholic season of Advent. During this time, Catholics celebrate and ready for what they believe will be the coming of the Messiah. - Staff Writer / Christa Ouellette

Quellete: The Season of Advent Recognizes a Catholic’s Preparation for Christmas

Christa Ouellette November 18, 2020

Every year, many families anticipate the coming of Christmas with Advent calendars filled with chocolates or small presents and decorating their houses with stringed lights. American-Catholic families...

Newman House Catholic Campus Ministry offers community for Catholic Profs. Christa Ouellette, who is involved with the Catholic Campus Ministry, describes how various Christian values have impacted her values and life as a Christian Prof. - Managing Editor / Tara Lonsdorf

Quellette: How Christian Views on Random Kindness Can Make a Difference

Christa Ouellette October 28, 2020

When the world feels like it’s swallowing you up or you’re at odds with everything and everyone, where is peace? What happens when you cannot find it within yourself or around you? We must learn...

Joanna Flynn describes an experience in a Rowan class when her Christian values were in conflict with a given assignment. Her response to this moral conflict surprised even herself. - Photo via pixabay.com

Flynn: What Happened When a Class Assignment Clashed with My Beliefs

Joanna Flynn October 13, 2020

I am a very literal person. I believe there is a fierce dichotomy between dark and light, that morality is not a scale. There is right, and there is wrong, and there is no space in between.But life isn’t...

Newman House Catholic Campus Ministry offers community for Catholic Profs. Christa Ouellette, who is involved with the Catholic Campus Ministry, describes how forgiveness is a complicated but also important Christian topic. - Managing Editor / Tara Lonsdorf

Quellette: Christian Forgiveness is Both Necessary and Complicated

Christa Ouellette September 26, 2020

One moral that unites all Christians is that of forgiveness. According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, to forgive means “to cease to feel resentment against an offender.” Letting go of resentment...

SGA AVP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (top row, second from left) called a meeting to discuss possible actions that Rowan University could take to accommodate and include its Jewish community. - Managing Editor / Tara Lonsdorf

SGA Representatives Meet With Jewish Campus Leaders to Discuss Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Tara Lonsdorf September 23, 2020

On Monday, Sept. 23, Student Government Association's Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Ayala Gideon held a virtual meeting with campus Jewish leaders to discuss...

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