Hope College
The mission of Hope College is to educate students for lives of leadership and service in a global society through academic and co-curricular programs of recognized excellence in the liberal arts and in the context of the historic Christian faith. Hope is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission, a commission of the North Central Association. Hope graduates are educated to think about life’s most important issues with clarity, wisdom, and a deep understanding.www.hope.edu
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Oct 2, 2026
Paul MuellerGUEST
So he and I came on, I guess, year two.
Paul MuellerGUEST
Sarah Estelle at Hope College had done the first year.
Paul MuellerGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Paul MuellerGUEST
And, yeah, we've been working on it ever since, and we release it annually.
Steve StocktonHOST
He even climbed mountains while studying abroad.
Steve StocktonHOST
In February of 1978, the then 23-year-old Hope College student went on a solo cross-country skiing trip near Lake Michigan and failed to return his plant.
Steve StocktonHOST
The following day, snowmobilers in Saugatuck discovered abandoned cross-country skis and a backpack.
Steve StocktonHOST
They reported their findings to the authorities, sparking a massive search for the missing student.
Steve StocktonHOST
Stephen consciously decided to avoid media attention and financial gain related to his experience.
Steve StocktonHOST
UFO and alien abduction theorists often reference his case as a prime example of someone being taken and returning without recollection of their whereabouts or experimentation.
Steve StocktonHOST
Stephen received his degree from Hope College in 1979 and completed a two-year internship at Dartmouth Medical School in 1992 before becoming a professor at the University of Wyoming.
Steve StocktonHOST
While there, he was honored with a fellowship from the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Michael Patrick ShielsHOST
So they had to hire or fire, I guess, hire and fire sort of Albion royalty.
Michael Patrick ShielsHOST
and I bet that was very awkward, but his overall record was 17-17, and apparently when they lost to Hope College, that was enough.
Michael Patrick ShielsHOST
It was a shutout loss in Holland.
Tony CuthbertHOST
There's got to be more to the story, and we've seen it so many times where it's a player that goes back to a certain team.
Stacy AtchisonHOST
Carmen began her federal career in the Federal Trade Commission's Office of General Counsel and has experience working in both the public and private sectors.
Stacy AtchisonHOST
She holds a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy from Hope College and a JD from American University's Washington College of Law.
Stacy AtchisonHOST
Okay, let's get to their discussion.
Adrienne BloomHOST
Well, September is National Food Safety Education Month, and in this special bonus episode of Food Safety Matters, we're taking a closer look at the importance of consumer food safety education and the role that consumers and federal agencies, and specifically USDA, play in preventing foodborne illness.
Joy MorinGUEST
And actually, I think it was either 2008 or 2009.
Joy MorinGUEST
When Edwin Gordon himself came as a guest lecturer to Hope College, which is where I did my undergraduate piano performance degree.
Joy MorinGUEST
And so he was with us for, I think, three days and he came into some of our music classes.
Joy MorinGUEST
So I remember sitting at the table with him and he just like told us about his work, talked about his research and told us what audition was and all of these things.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
He even climbed mountains while studying abroad.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
In February of 1978, the then 23-year-old Hope College student went on a solo cross-country skiing trip near Lake Michigan and failed to return as planned.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The following day, snowmobilers in Saugatuck discovered abandoned cross-country skis and a backpack.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
They reported their findings to the authorities, sparking a massive search for the missing student.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Stephen consciously decided to avoid media attention and financial gain related to his experience.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
UFO and alien abduction theorists often reference his case as a prime example of someone being taken and returning without recollection of their whereabouts or experimentation.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Stephen received his degree from Hope College in 1979 and completed a two-year internship at Dartmouth Medical School in 1992 before becoming a professor at the University of Wyoming.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
While there, he was honored with a fellowship from the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Josh BowmanHOST
Today I have the honor and privilege of speaking with my friend and neighbor, Dr. Jared Ortiz.
Josh BowmanHOST
Jared is a professor of religion at Hope College and chair of that department.
Josh BowmanHOST
He is also the founder and executive director of the St. Benedict Institute, which is a Catholic spiritual and intellectual center that serves Hope College.
Josh BowmanHOST
Dr. Ortiz's award-winning teaching feature courses on the mysteries of Christianity, church history, the theology of the human person, and early Christianity.
Josh BowmanHOST
And he recently co-authored a commentary on the Nicene Creed, which I personally recommend, and is currently researching the rule of St. Benedict.
Jared OrtizGUEST
Sure.
Jared OrtizGUEST
So just a little bit about how it came to be, which will help to understand what it is and what it does.
Jared OrtizGUEST
So I was hired 13 years ago to be the Catholic guy at Hope College.
Chris VossHOST
Married for 25 years to his wife and four children.
Chris VossHOST
He went to Grand Rapids Christian High School and Hope College, where he worked for 20 years in Kent County Schools.
Chris VossHOST
And he... owns a family cleaning business, attends Solid Rock Worship Center, Cedar Springs, Michigan.
Chris VossHOST
Welcome to the show, sir.
Kevin DeYoungHOST
Well, we decided to work nicely with him.
Kevin DeYoungHOST
He must have felt like he absolutely hit the lottery when he was making small talk and realized that his wife also went to Hope College.
Kevin DeYoungHOST
What are the odds that someone's wife down here would also have gone to a small college in Michigan? He must have said, yes.
Kevin DeYoungHOST
Anyways, he gave us, they ended up, we got a half acre in the woods behind our house.
TravisHOST
She joined the faculty here in the philosophy department, classics and philosophy.
TravisHOST
And she got her PhD at St. Louis University, and she's taught there and at Hope College.
TravisHOST
She focuses a lot on things related to the problem of evil.
TravisHOST
Really sort of religion and ethics is one of her major areas.
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