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LGBTQ+ students attending Christian colleges across the nation are coming to terms with their identities as university administrations examine their policies on same sex relationships. Azusa Pacific University is a university in California that is a part of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, an association of more than […]
To encourage college students on campus to form and strengthen their interpersonal relationships, the Center for Healthy Relationships launched the Look Up! Campaign for the second time this year. In a connected world where people spend hours staring at a screen, calling, emailing, texting, posting pictures on social media, reading […]
I’m a male student at John Brown University and I struggle with same-sex attraction. I first noticed it during my middle school years. Appalled and bewildered, I attempted to suffocate these attractions by burying them inside of myself. It didn’t work. Let me clarify something: I like girls a lot. […]
Sometimes today can feel like the 60s. Many images splattered before me: black churches being shot and burned down by domestic terrorists; brown-skinned boys slain in the streets by those who were meant to defend and protect them, brown-skinned children harassed and incriminated in front of their homes; brown-skinned women […]
As director of facilities, Steve Brankle sat down for an interview, he wiped his brow, having just come in from digging up a gas line that was in the way of construction. This summer John Brown University officially broke ground on the new health sciences building on Aug. 17. When […]
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again. It was sacrament, and it was ritual and I knew it was important. The words were the same every third Sunday of the month. The United Methodist Communion Liturgy is poetry, prose and the gospel in less than five minutes. […]
The end of April is near, and speculations about who will announce their candidacy for the presidency have been confirmed and negated in the past weeks. The first one to announce a candidacy for president was Ted Cruz, who was unsurprisingly followed by Rand Paul, then Hilary Clinton, and now, […]
“You have to take Family Sexuality.” Like an ancient saying passed on from senior to freshman, this phrase, perhaps better than any, marks Nick Ogle’s career at John Brown University. Ogle, associate professor of family and human services, will be leaving full-time teaching at the University for his “dream job” […]
In November of 1969 Professor of Biblical Studies Robbie Castleman took part in the national colloquium that helped plan the first Earth Day, which was celebrated in April of 1970. 45 years later Castleman is still serious about ‘going green’ and commends John Brown University’s efforts to be sustainable. “Earth, […]