Lacrosse: The Fastest Growing Sport in America

As America’s fastest growing and oldest sport, many might find themselves choosing to play lacrosse this season over football or soccer. With a long and often unknown history in North America, this originally Iroquois field sport has been rapidly growing in popularity and will soon be found in your high-school. In our age of technological efficiency filled with high speed social media, Tweeting and lightning-fast video games, it’s no wonder why young athletes are … [Read more...]

Goodbye BC and AD, Hello CE and BCE?

It’s what we all learned in school: history is divided into two periods, BC and AD. BC stood for Before Christ and AD stood for… well, we were never really sure, but we knew it sort of meant "after Christ" (it actually stands for Anno Domini, Latin for "the year of our Lord.") But now it looks like that might all be changing. In an attempt to be more sensitive to non-Christians, academics have begun using the abbreviations CE and BCE, for … [Read more...]

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump: A Real Place

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump may sound more like a rock band than a real location where a people created thousand of years of history. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Alberta Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump was (and is) of great importance to the indigenous Blackfoot people. The location fell into disuse the mid-19th century. It was in danger of being lost in historical memory until archaeologists discovered just how long the cliffs and surrounding area … [Read more...]

Christian Symbolism Behind Why Easter is Celebrated in the Spring

Have you ever wondered why the Church holds important holidays on the specific days that they do? Take Easter for example. Is it just an arbitrary day that a council agreed upon, or is there a deeper, more important meaning hidden behind a date? Many of the reasons Easter is celebrated in the spring are symbolic, but history also plays a part. Historical Significance behind Easter The day Easter falls on is based on the lunar calendar. It's on the first Sunday … [Read more...]

How to Handle Conflicts in Romantic Relationships

If you think you can have a love relationship with conflict, think again. The real key to lasting relationships is the ability to deal with disagreements and conflicts. That's because no matter who you are, nor how much you are in love, in time there will be disagreements. The key is to not allow trivial disagreements and minor conflicts to escalate into something that results in hurt feelings or serious anger. How do you do prevent disagreements getting out of … [Read more...]