Emily Christiansen

Emily Christiansen

Emily Christiansen is a junior Strategic Communications major with a Journalism minor at Bethel University in St.Paul, Minnesota. 

I have a passion for storytelling through writing, photo and video. I aim to shed light on the experiences, challenges, and resilience of those whose stories are often overlooked. I want to inspire readers to appreciate the unique perspectives from other people in their communities.  

I enjoy playing piano, ukulele, and my white Paul Reed Smith single-cut electric guitar. I participate in community theater and spend my summers working with children at a summer camp in West St. Paul. My go-to karaoke song is "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and my favorite movie is "The Shawshank Redemption." 

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The Clarion •

Faith, Grief and a Golden Buzzer

Malachi Henderson huddled with 52 choir members backstage. Crying. Praying. Pacing up and down the hallway. Pinching themselves that they’d actually made it.  
This wasn’t their typical community choir concert in their hometown of Detroit, Michigan; it was a chance to make history on the biggest stage in the world–America’s Got Talent in Pasadena, California. 
After a pep talk from Terry Crews, Henderson wiped his tears and followed his choir members on stage.
One by one, they trickled out of th...
The Clarion •

“West Side Story” hits close to home

Choreographer Sandy Agustin studied the dancers like a hawk. As they twirled across the stage, she watched for missed steps. 
In the most intricate dance routine of Bethel University’s “West Side Story,” the dance at the high school gym, the stage is split into two halves: the “Sharks” on one side of the gym, and the “Jets” on the other. 
The musical tells the story of two rival gangs, the white “Jets” and the Puerto Rican “Sharks.” When Maria and Tony, members of opposing groups, fall in love,...
The Clarion •

Crush and burn

Griff Bangston was a 5 ‘9 curly-headed hockey player with blue eyes and a bad attitude. Always the leading scorer on the ice but never in the classroom. Although he made up for his lack of effort in school in the dating scene. 
It was almost impressive. Griff turned the junior class at Two Rivers High School into a frenzy of U.S. Weekly readers, their eyes spellbound to the bold tabloid headline asking, “Who will Griff Bangston date next?” 
But according to my dad, a teacher at our highschool, h...
The Clarion •

Bethel students, alumni respond to Alpha News post about professor Chris Gehrz

“Gretchen, come look at this.” 
Senior history and psychology major Gretchen Mugglin rushed into her dining room. Her roommate, Bethel alumna Mild Du, sat frozen at the table; her eyes fixed on her cellphone. Mugglin stood behind her and squinted.
A Sept. 20 Facebook post from the Minnesota-based independent news organization Alpha News glowed on Du’s screen. The post displayed a screenshot of a devotional written by Bethel University history professor Chris Gehrz with the caption, “An Alpha New...

87 Years of Flaherty’s Arden Bowl, Arguably America's Oldest Family-Run Bowling Alley - Racket

Racket collaborated with the Bethel University Arts + Culture Reporting class to produce the stories you'll read this week. Our editors worked with students, mostly juniors and seniors, to develop ideas, source stories, and edit them for the enjoyment of readers. Feel free to seek out these young journalists, photojournalists, and graphic designers to fill your internships and jobs. They like to get paid for their work, and thanks to Racket members and a grant from Bethel, they got cashed out fo...
ROYAL REPORT •

Senior plays final college basketball game

№12-ranked St. John’s University defeated the Bethel men’s basketball team 89–62 at their senior night match up on Saturday at 3. Caden Boettcher was Bethel’s only senior player on Senior Day.By Emily Christiansen | Staff Reporter

№12-ranked St. John’s University defeated the Bethel men’s basketball team 89–62 at their senior night match up on Saturday at 3. Caden Boettcher was Bethel’s only senior player on Senior Day.

By Emily Christiansen | Staff Reporter
ROYAL REPORT •

Trading strings for stethoscopes

By Emily Christiansen, free-lance reporterBruce Holmberg remembers his rock star days as the best days of his life. The scratchy sounds of electric guitars distorting through large amplifiers. The screams of young fans gathered at every Battle of the Bands competition. The applause from classmates as the judges named him and his band the winners of Irondale high school’s spring talent show.“We were metal heads,” Holmberg’s high school best friend Morgan Craft said. “His hair, you know what I mea...
ROYAL REPORT •

When Christ is the only cure

Four months later, Carlson faced a brand new challenge with a lot more to lose. Stakes that make a national music competition look like an elementary school talent show.In October of 2022 inside his home in Lakeville Minnesota, he listened as his doctor said the word no patient wants to hear.Cancer.It stung like needles through the phone. A thick silence fell over the room. The large mass his doctors removed from his lower body days before was 13% embryonal carcinoma; The fast growing and hard-t...
ROYAL REPORT •

Connection across cultures

By Emily Christiansen, news reporterRipley Smith threw his head back and laughed. A Romanian tour guide smiled beside him. He steered their small vehicle down a long and narrow road, curving through the mountainside and down the rolling hills of the Transylvanian Alps.On a mission trip with the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Smith had been working with the Eastern European Mission and caring for orphaned youth. For three weeks, his team taught them mountaineering while camping in the mo...

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