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by Katherine.McMillan | August 13, 2025 | Featured | 0 Comments
Grit, Grace and Growth
Jan 17, 2019 | Staff Stories
By: Sarah Shannon, Director of Adventure Pursuits and Rock Gym Grit is a hot topic. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, grit is “courage and resolve, strength of character.” This is an attribute we hope describes us, but how have we learned to have grit? How do...
Please Leave a Message After the Tone
Jan 17, 2019 | Adirondack Expeditions, College Expeditions
By: Taylor Bradford '19 Why it’s important to explore beyond smartphones and social media feeds Over the past 50 years, mobile phones have developed from a fictitious prop used in episodes of The Jetsonsto a pocket-sized tool that has given us a new way to navigate...
Why Risk It
Jan 17, 2019 | Reviews
Thoughts by Bryn Clark on Alex Honnold’s Free Solo The Christian doctrine of imago dei (Latin: ‘image of God’) holds that within each person there exists the stamp of God’s own divine image. “Let us create man in our likeness” the Triune God declares at creation. The...
The Solo Experience: A Time for Rest, Reflection and Self-renewal
Dec 13, 2018 | Adirondack Expeditions, College Expeditions, Compass, Solo
By: Taylor Bradford '19 “The silence of the forest, the peace of the early morning wind moving the branches of the trees, the solitude and isolation of the house of God: these are good because it is in silence, and not in commotion, in solitude and not in crowds, that...
Icelandic Grace
Dec 10, 2018 | Compass
A Glimpse of the Compass ministry in Reykjavik By: Bryn Clark It is a beautiful, warm summer’s day in Reykjavik. In Elliðaárdalur, a park in the east part of the city, laughter can be heard over the babbling river running through the park’s center. Rounding a bend...
Compass Alumni Spotlight: Sam Elkins ’13
Dec 10, 2018 | Compass
For Sam Elkins, a participant in the 2013 program, Compass was instrumental to his faith. Compass introduced Sam to a Christian community where brothers and sisters challenged him in his walk, showed him grace when dealing with sin, and, in all things, pointed him...