Brad Powell encouraged students at Convocation April 23 to humble themselves before God. He started by admitting his inner struggle to appear influential in front of the students. “One (side of) me stands believing that by God’s power and by God’s grace, I can share something that will genuinely make an eternal difference in your life,” Powell said. “But the […]
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Fourteen Liberty University students placed third or above in the Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium two weeks ago. The event, which allows students from each school in the Big South Conference to perform and present their research, was held at Liberty for the first time April 13-14. Another first for the event was a category for performing arts where students […]
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The International Student Center hosted the Asian Open House Wednesday, April 25, to celebrate the Asian culture from which many Liberty University students hail. The open house featured authentic Asian food and drink as well as Asian-themed trivia, providing Asian students the opportunity to share their cultures with other students. “To me (the ISC) is a place where international students […]
Read moreNational retail chain Target, in collaboration with the Walt Disney Company and actress Julie Andrews, will host National Princess Week April 22-28 — a week-long event for children to celebrate their inner princess through Disney’s Princess Line of movies, books, apparel and toys. With movements such as #MeToo and Time’s Up promoting women to speak up, National Princess Week can […]
Read moreDear Madame or Sir, On behalf of the Alzheimer’s Association, I would like to thank the Liberty Flames baseball team, Tyler McNamara and his staff for hosting the Alzheimer’s Association for Alzheimer’s Awareness night April 3. We are grateful to the Flames baseball team’s support in helping us raise both awareness and funds for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s. […]
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Google recently unrolled a new advertising campaign across New York City, emblazoning subway station walls with minimalist posters, many suggesting that we should just “Let Google do it.” But while the newest tagline of the tech titan has been slowly swallowing the Big Apple, it’s the company’s much older motto that’s making headlines. “Don’t be evil.” An […]
Read moreAny person who steps onto the campus of Liberty University can see evidence of Liberty’s rapid expansion. Construction projects are spread across the grounds, and cranes decorate the skyline. The loud beeping, whirring and clanging of construction machines has become the natural ambience of the Liberty experience. Most students grin and bear the inconveniences of constant expansion by […]
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Mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, first lady and literacy activist. These are a few of the roles that former First Lady Barbara Bush held during her 92 years of life, and they are each an instrumental part of who she was. When Bush was campaigning with her husband, George H. W. Bush, for the 1988 presidential election, she presented herself as the […]
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Like all people my age, I was not alive while former President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush were in the White House. And if I am going to be completely honest, it was not until recently when I read the various obituaries of the late Barbara Bush that I really understood the impact she had in advocating […]
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Every year, people all around the world tune in to a nearly six-hour live Bible study simulcast led by David Platt called The Secret Church. In DeMoss Hall at Liberty University, more than 200 students gathered together to watch the broadcast, which was streamed April 20. The mission of Platt’s Secret Church is to focus on praying for the persecuted […]
Read moreCoconuts and cruises, reefs and reggae, beaches and boats – all these come to mind with the word Caribbean. The Caribbean Student Association (CSA), recently founded by sophomore Benjamin Moultrie-Grant, stepped into the spotlight with its partnership with the Reber-Thomas Dining Hall for the Caribbean Cruise Night on Tuesday, April 17. Its own Painting in Paradise event that will occur […]
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Vitriolic. Hateful. Venomous. These words should never describe someone’s upbringing, and yet they are just three of the words used by LU Shepherd Douglas Damon to convey his childhood home. Coming from the turbulent home life of his childhood and to his life now as an on-campus minister to Liberty University students, Damon has experienced the extraordinary things that […]
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Cinematic arts students are experiencing a special opportunity to work on Liberty’s fifth feature film project, set to be released Oct. 2 to 1,200 theaters. The film, “Commander,” is under the direction of Stephan Schultze, the executive director of the cinematic arts program. Schultze has worked in Hollywood on several major motion pictures. According to Schultze, the director […]
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You can only see 10 percent of an iceberg above water – the majority of it remains hidden in murky uncertainty underneath the water. In Alluvion Stage Company’s production of “Big Fish,” which is running at Tower Theater until May 6, the character Will Bloom compares his traveling salesman father, Edward, to an iceberg with unknown depths. Growing up, Will […]
Read moreTom Brady has lost three Super Bowls, LeBron James has lost four NBA Finals, Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid, m.A.A.d City” album lost out the 2014 best rap album Grammy to Macklemore, even Air Bud lost the 1998 Kids Choice Award for Favorite Animal Star to Salem the Cat from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. What I’m getting at is that all […]
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