Josh Benner

Category: BGSU

  • People oppose Christian prayer gathering at the day of prayer

    Today is the National Day of Prayer. It’s a day set aside to turn to God in prayer. The modern day National Day of Prayer was established by an act of congress in 1952, although similar themed days in American government go back to the 1770s. I came across an article in my former college’s…

  • The perspective tragedy gives on what really matters

    It’s so easy to lose perspective. It’s so easy to complain out of habit, to get frustrated when things don’t go perfectly. We have our waiter make a mistake with an order and respond like they’ve committed some type of wartime atrocity. We complain and we get bitter. I think it’s not because the things…

  • BGSU tragedy: shared grief I’ve observed from alumni

    I was out to dinner with my family this evening. The conversation swirled around various topics, but I was mostly in a different world, thinking of the deaths of three young sorority sisters in Alpha Xi Delta and I struggled to muster up much of an appetite to eat my meal. At a couple points,…

  • Thoughts and mourning: Bowling Green tragedy

    For Bowling Green Greeks and for the BG alumni still connected to the university, I feel that this morning’s tragic news of three sorority sisters dying in a car accident is Bowling Green’s “you remember where you were when” moment. All day long, my Facebook has been full of fellow Falcon alumni and undergrads expressing…

  • The start of graduate school: a new chapter

    I start graduate school this week. A little over three years ago, when I graduated from college, I always knew that I would be back. If you had asked me at the time, I probably wouldn’t have expected it to take three years. But things come up, and life never quite seems to go as…