The Lion & Lamb Café in Thomas Road Baptist Church is now on its second month of its latest mission focused campaign, “Coffee for a Cause.” Coffee for a Cause is a volunteer run program on Sunday mornings where the café serves free brewed coffee in exchange for a donation of any amount. One hundred percent of profits go to […]
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On a promotional poster, one red umbrella emerged from a sea of black ones. That, said Dr. Lorene Wales, is a good picture of what it is often like to be the only woman in the room: you have to stretch your arm a little higher to find your place and are often less protected when a storm comes. Wales, […]
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Editor’s Note: This testimony is a continuation of Brian VonAchen’s story, which began in the last issue. The first time one of my friends told me he watched pornography, I did not handle it well. The friend sitting across from me was one of the kindest, most respectable people I had ever met, and I had only heard of watching […]
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Student Activities brought the art of cake decorating to campus last week through a workshop event, where junior nursing student Autumn Carlson taught other students how to decorate a cake using her own tips and tricks. Student Activities wanted to give students an opportunity to learn interesting life skills throughout its four-part workshop series. They chose cake decorating as their […]
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Motivated by her mother’s creativity sending out sunshine-themed care packages, Mikayla Grubbs, a Liberty sophomore, decided to use her time in quarantine in a crafty way, propelling her to start a licensed business. “My mama is really the inspiration behind this business,” Grubbs said. “I just started messing around with clay, made a few earrings, and thought to myself, ‘Wow, […]
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As a hazy future looms in the distance, Liberty’s women’s lacrosse team continues to march forward, waiting for its next opportunity to compete after the unfortunate loss of a spring season. As was the case with programs across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic drastically altered the team’s ability to practice and play games. Flames Head Coach Kelly Nangle described the […]
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Liberty’s DI hockey team returned to the ice Friday in its first intercollegiate action since March – and the Flames came back with a bang, routing the North Carolina State Ice Pack 7-2 at the LaHaye Ice Center. After a scoreless first period in which both teams appeared sluggish, Liberty did not wait long to find rhythm in the second […]
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Saturday was a banner day for Liberty football with a high scoring win over Southern Mississippi moving the Flames to a 6-0 record, tying the program’s best start since 2008 as quarterback Malik Willis rubberstamped the impact he has had on the team this season. Willis removed all doubt regarding his earlier injury, highlighting not just his top-notch running game […]
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On June 18, 1986, the words of basketball legend “Pistol” Pete Maravich changed Stephon Leary’s life forever. After a week of dominating the competition at “Pistol” Pete’s youth basketball camp at Clearwater Christian College, Leary, a high school junior and Houston-native, felt special. That feeling grew even more when Maravich, a Hall of Famer and the organizer of the camp, […]
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Liberty sent 14 athletes to compete at the USA Archery 3D Collegiate National Championships Oct. 15 through Oct. 17, making the archery team one of only a few collegiate club sports competing this fall. The event, held in Foley, Alabama, at the Graham Creek Interpretive Center, was put on by the national governing body, USA Archery, and hosted more than […]
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Even though the Liberty women’s tennis team has not been able to compete this fall, a tournament in the Lynchburg area gave them an opportunity to showcase their skills Oct. 10-11. Five athletes on the women’s tennis team competed unattached at the Boonsboro Fall UTR Event, located at the Boonsboro Country Club. Prior to this event, the last competition the […]
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Ugly. As a lifelong Philadelphia Eagles fan, I cannot think of another word to describe the NFC East this season. In a conference that boasts a division with four teams at least one game above .500 (NFC West), the East division is not only the black eye of the NFC, but the NFL as a whole. After Week Seven action, […]
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Sisters Anna and Marie Hostetler have been training and racing with each other since middle school. Today, they’re teammates now racing as Liberty Flames. The individual journeys that led the two distance runners to the Liberty track and cross-country teams could not be more different, however. Anna, currently a junior, attended the University of Iowa for a year and a […]
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Born and raised in the Bay Area, Sen. Kamala Harris epitomizes much of what California politics have to offer. Conservatives, who often ridicule California for its liberal culture, adamant environmentalism, social permissiveness and economic restrictions, may find it tempting to heap most of the blame onto Harris, and they would not be entirely wrong to do so. When noting her […]
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President Donald J. Trump ran for office in 2016 – the first time he had ever run for a government position of any kind. At first, there were many who thought his plan to run was a joke. Not many thought he would win his party’s nomination, much less the presidency. When he made public his decision to run for […]
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