I disagree with the letter student life emailed us today.

I am really tempted to just take the 200 dollar fine for missing chapel just to miss the political stuff.

Here's the thing.

You are (almost) all hypocrites. On both sides. On the one side you have the conservative rhetoric that says, "suck it up, Trump's your president," because they've forgotten that they had #NotMyPresident plastered all over their cars and motorbikes and Facebook walls and gun cases in 2008 AND in 2012.

On the other hand you have the stir-the-pot gang that forgets they weren't always kind and compassionate about the views of Republicans over the last few years. Who say it's ok to make conservatives afraid so that they can identify with LGBT students.

I think the Trump crowd is incredibly misguided and they have their priorities tied in all kinds of knots, but I also understand some of that reasoning, and as someone who became more liberal at Fox I can say it was love and forgiveness that moved me and not the fear and anger. I felt entirely humiliated by the love I was shown, and that's what changed my heart.

Here's what I'm going to ask, though. At the very least, group A, please stop throwing everyone who walks over to talk to group B and hear them out into the pool with them and making us your enemies or calling our desire to love and listen betrayal. I've gotten that from everyone today. Friends talking to me different because I wasn't there, friends looking concerned because I voice support for the protest. Cut out this holier-than-thou shit. If you want to preach love, do it. If you want to preach Jesus, live it! Be Jesus. I'm tired of everyone sowing seeds of division and anger and suspicion in the name of some Jesus that doesn't seem to materialize in their actual conversations.

I'm so proud of so many of you, and so disappointed in so many of you, you have no idea. But I wouldn't be writing this if I didn't think you were capable of doing better or if I didn't think your hearts were all at least trying to be in the right place.

I'm done. Cash me outside.

I want love, not hate

I want peace, not tyranny

I want to help, not push away

I want to speak out, not remain silent

I will stand

And if that means I stand alone

So be it

This is why I joined the peaceful stand today

Never in all my time at Fox have I felt such love and community coming from people of all political standpoints and family/cultural backgrounds

Remember, Jesus taught us to love our neighbor

I think if people don't like politics in their religion they should leave their religion out of politics.

As a very strict Protestant, I chose a Christian college with the hopes that politics would not be the center of my world but that God would. At Fox, I feel like chapel is just a platform for pushing liberal views and twisting bible verses to fit those views. Classes have very little to do with God or the Bible, despite the promise of a Christ integrated education. In addition, I feel like I can't even say one positive thing about Trump who IS our president without fearing that I'll lose a friend or worse. Now, I'm considering transferring schools because I am not known here and rarely is God.

The protest today was hot garbage. However, I love it when folks exercise their rights. Right to speech, to assemble, bare arms, own property etc... but seriously this was embarrassing today. I just wish people wouldn't be so easily manipulated. The tv or your fb feed tells you what to hate, and then like loyal groupthink zombie soldiers, you picket next to the clock tower. Fine, I respect it...now for some quick facts.

Not one of these countries banned from entry are in the top 5 in Muslim population.
Trump didn't select these countries, these countries were picked by the Obama administration. Obama limited the amount of work visas...nobody protested then.
This is a 90 day suspension to figure out a more effective vetting system.
325,000 traveled from majority Muslim countries to America this past weekend, only 109 were stopped at the gate.
Those who worked with American forces in the war are able to gain entry.
Obama halted immigration from Iraq for 6months in 2011, nobody protested.
The Obama administration destroyed Libya, Syria, and wasted American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Its American policy to aid those who are being religiously oppressed, those who are in the religious minority, in this case, Christians.

Long story short. Not a MUSLIM BAN. Don't be stupid. No Trump isn't a smooth talking guy, heck I voted for him and I cringe when he speaks. But pay attention, read opposing news media outlets, IE Fox vs CNN or Huffington Post vs Breitbart.

Everything Trump did was in his executive power. Not all Muslims are terrorists...DUH, those 7 countries are hot beds of terrorism. Currently 1000 open terrorism investigations going on in America.

I have been struggling to find the words for some time to post on this page. However, some things need to be said so I have decided to post.

I think its appalling that there are not more Christians standing up against the complete disregard for immigrants and refugees seeking a place to stay in this country. This should be especially true for my George Fox University community. Equally disheartening is the selective moral outrage I see from university professors, Spiritual Life House, and students who rightfully criticize Christians lack of support for refugees but are at the same time mum on the issue of defending the rights of the unborn, perhaps the most vulnerable among us! Those in leadership at Fox should know better. While they are not necessarily shepherds of God's flock in the way a paster is, they non-the-less possess a great deal influence over over young Christians at Fox. I am outraged that thousands of innocent people are getting denied entry into our country but I am even more outraged that no one is speaking out about the over 57 million! babies who's lives have been unnecessarily cut short. The unborn who have the potential for any type of disability what so ever including Autism, Aspergers, Down Syndrome and many others still remain vastly overrepresented among the aborted. On the global scale, baby girls are also much more likely to be aborted than baby boys as are people of color in the United States. I don't know how long it will take before abortion is abolished in the United States. It may take 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, I don't know. It took hundreds of years before slavery was abolished but I know in my heart that one day it will be. And when that day comes I hope those who defended the life of the samaritan AND the unborn will be there to see it happen. Until then I no longer want anything to do with those who call themselves followers of Christ but say nothing or do nothing... this is especially true for gfu Faculty.

Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.’… Matthew 7:21-23