John Brown University's Student Newspaper
Twent years ago, John Brown University’s education department began a partnership with the Siloam Springs School District, a partnership that Grace Davis has watched change over time. Davis said the partners’ most recent change is a transition to embedded field experience, in which a faculty member and their class go […]
At some point in every person’s life comes a time to enter the “real world.” Graduation commences and what happens next can be a complete mystery. But according to recent graduates, the John Brown University experience provides all that is needed to transition into life after college. Hayley Hendren graduated […]
“To give us hope in the face of life’s many challenges, we catch the miracle of God’s spirit to regenerate his people from dead-end living.” These words describe a painting by artist Timothy Botts. Botts, a calligraphy artist, created a traveling gallery for the group Christians in Visual Arts. On […]
How much should outward appearance matter in love? This is a question that John Brown University students will seek to answer in their performance of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s satirical operetta “Patience,” showing Nov. 8-10 and 15-16. The University’s music theater workshop invites you to peer into a different […]
As the Local Natives took the the stage, 40 John Brown University students sat captivated in the audience, listening to a band they would not have otherwise seen on campus. On Oct. 5, JBU student activity group, BLUE, or Bringing Live Unplugged Entertainment, took 40 students to a Local Natives […]
Students, faculty and administrators at John Brown University have spent weeks thinking about how to have productive conversations about race. It started with six words. “’Imago Dei’ applies to all colors,” Abby Chestnut wrote. This Monday marked the end of the Race Card Project, an international movement to start conversations […]
Christians have different perspectives on whether to celebrate Halloween. Between children trick or treating for candy and people dressing up as ghosts, monsters and skeletons, the question is raised whether Halloween promotes good or evil. “I don’t have anything against it,” said Amber Moore, a junior. “But I don’t enjoy […]
Four competitors from the JBU Forensics Team earned the crown as co-champions of Parliamentary Debate at the Golden Eagle Invitational held last weekend. The pairing of Justin Burchfiel and Walker Martin “closed out” the final round of the tournament with their squadmates Michael Burchfiel and Brad Johnson. To net the […]
First Mock Rock… then what, the TP Game? Candlelight? Traditions are what create and sustain the JBU community that we all claim to admire so much. When we The Threefold Advocate heard this beloved event was in danger of extinction, we decided to become the University’s equivalent of Greenpeace, jumping […]
Google “women’s Halloween costumes” and try to find an outfit that doesn’t show the model’s bust popping over the costume’s top or her legs stretching from beneath the gaudy get-up that covers only one-third of her thighs. Google “little girl Halloween costumes,” and the selection you see will consist mostly […]