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The Crimson White

All content by Matthew Gillham

Don’t call me an evangelical

Will Sorrell May 2, 2016

I’m an evangelical, but don’t call me that.I am by no stretch of the imagination a minority. As a white, straight, cisgender, able-bodied male, I’m the poster-child for the majority. Yet there’s...

A frightening reflection I didn’t want to see

Matthew Gillham May 2, 2016

I used to cross the quad every morning, grotesquely navigating the sidewalks that seem to point in every direction except the one that I was going, and thank God for letting me attend this University....

Let them play: women's basketball faces double standard

Will Sorrell April 11, 2016

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there were two companies. Company A outperformed its competitor’s profit margin by 158 percent. Company B outperformed its competitor’s profit margin by 7,950...

UA should schedule commencement speeches

Matthew Gillham April 4, 2016

The University of Alabama ought to have commencement speeches for graduation ceremonies. Certainly, it could just be an innate longing for four years of my life to be neatly tied in the presentation of...

Alabama deserves better than Bentley

Will Sorrell March 24, 2016

By Will Sorrell | Staff ColumnistI love this state. I love its people. I love this University. I love the way the leaves fall innocently on the Quad in the cool of autumn, the sweet, sweltering heat of...

The season of complaining

Matthew Gillham March 23, 2016

Fear not—as our whines of Spring Break’s abrupt conclusion start to fall on deaf ears, it looks like most of us have secured a right to complaints that’ll last even longer than each semester’s...

When it counts

Matthew Gillham February 23, 2016

“I’ll start caring about them when it actually counts,” they said, in their triumphant wisdom, refusing to be fooled into the futility of working for A’s on a middle school report card. There were...

Christian: you are not promised worldly success

Matthew Gillham February 15, 2016

Six months leading up to several 45-minute interviews, I knew what I wanted. After a few moments, my tongue-tied language left me without one of a handful of jobs for which I had toiled and prepped. I...

Why Pink matters

Why Pink matters

Will Sorrell February 5, 2016

I’ll never forget that damp Montgomery day. I was on a trip with my peers learning about governmental functions and departments; honestly I can’t remember much of what we did. My mom had found a small...

Evangelicals cannot support Trump in good conscience

Will Sorrell January 29, 2016

On Tuesday, the president of Liberty University, an evangelical college in Virginia, endorsed Donald Trump for President, and recent polls show that he has the support of 37 percent of GOP evangelicals....

Self-interest taints view of political world

Matthew Gillham January 25, 2016

Have ideas about how the world ought to be? How the government ought to run? Don’t fool yourself: you’ll probably be voting out of self-interest come November.Don’t get me wrong, you’ll have quite...

Don't let technology control your life

Will Sorrell December 1, 2015

As you read this, you probably don't even consciously realize that you are looking at a screen. Chances are it's not your first time today, nor will it be your last. Smart phones, laptops and tablets are...

(Fearing the) power of the people

Matthew Gillham November 16, 2015

The protests at Mizzou this past week have begun to usher in new accountability for college administrations by using the tremendous power of the public to bring about progress – and progress they have...

Stigma: just one of many obstacles to achieving mental health

Will Sorrell November 3, 2015

"I am proud to attend The University of Alabama." This is a statement naturally proclaimed by much of campus, but unspoken or even opposed by many students as well. Personally, I am proud to attend our...

Student resale of tickets is highway robbery

Student resale of tickets is highway robbery

Will Sorrell October 19, 2015

Supply and demand, we’re all at least somewhat acquainted with how they work. If supply of a good is low and demand is high, the price will be high. Prices of goods affect the livelihood of consumers....

The absurdity of pledgeship, the absurdity of us

Matthew Gillham October 16, 2015

In the aftermath of the hazing allegations on campus with Phi Gamma Delta, ridicule and outrage have been thrown at the very idea of pledgeship. Is pledgeship absurd? Probably. Incongruent with human nature?...

You are not just your resume

Will Sorrell October 8, 2015

People often say, “Your life is the sum of all of your experiences.” This is a lie.As the autumnal breeze swept the pillared clouds across the Tuscaloosa sky Thursday afternoon, I found myself hunkered...

Welcoming the end of seventy-two

Matthew Gillham October 2, 2015

It looks like seventy-two straight games of being the favorite, the champ, the top dog are no more. And I’m more than okay with that.It’s about time the joy of winning eclipsed the devastation of a...

Stop politicizing faith

Will Sorrell September 28, 2015

If you’ve been awake this week, you know that Pope Francis is in the United States, and he’s turning tables per usual. From rolling around D.C. in a Fiat, to becoming the first pontiff to canonize...

Is self-deception key to success?

Matthew Gillham September 18, 2015

You can accomplish anything you put your mind to—right? Believe it! But it just might not be true.Politicians, celebrities, athletes and Joel Osteen nearly unanimously articulate that if you want something—really...

How the modern Christian church creates college atheists

Matthew Gillham September 4, 2015

More than 70% of college students who regularly attended church in high school leave in college. Why? “Universities are secular hotbeds with biased professors aiming to abolish religion.” “Their...

The danger of college’s self-obsessive allure

Matthew Gillham August 24, 2015

Yeah, this one is, ironically, for you freshmen—but it’s also for me, too. Just don’t spend too long thinking about yourself while reading it.Between goodbye hugs from your parents and helping your...