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After helping with orientation this year and visiting with the new students, I had a grand epiphany about myself: I foolishly superimpose my own feelings of my freshman year onto freshmen! When I ask, “how is freshman year going so far?” my response is always, “ . . . really?” […]
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus: “outside the church there is no salvation.” At first glance this quote from Cyprian of Carthage may cause us to bristle at its arrogant and exclusive tone. It sounds like this third century bishop was on a power trip and wanted everyone to know it. In […]
Inebriated teddy bears, twerking and a skin colored bikini seem to be the only things anyone remembers from the 30th annual VMA’s. And if you’re Miley Cyrus, that means mission accomplished. The competition between generic artists to decide who can be the trashiest has reached a gladiatorial state, and we […]
Miley Cyrus has received a lot of media attention in the past few weeks since her performance at the VMA’s this year. She sang a collaboration of her song “We Can’t Stop” and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” Both songs talk about partying and “living for pleasure” without a single care […]
Editor’s Note: OneJBU is an outside organization led by JBU alumni. Human sexuality is a topic that has generated much debate at JBU over the years. This spring, I announced the formation of a group called OneJBU. OneJBU was started by several alumni in 2012, and now has over 150 […]
In late August, John Brown University became the first university in Arkansas to have a facility dedicated to play therapy. The new C.A.R.E clinic, located directly across from the old building, aids hundreds of kids, while training graduate students to be play therapy certified. “Play therapy is a form of […]
For hundreds of years, evangelicals, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians have been at odds over doctrine. Two professors want to make John Brown University a place where they can come together. The Paradosis Center for Theology and Scripture is a research center focused on fostering dialogue between different branches of Christianity. […]
Tim Gilmour, assistant professor of engineering at John Brown University, had the opportunity to teach a class in a North Korean university over the summer. Gilmour has spent a lot of time in Asia, and jumped at the chance to teach and to build relationships in this hard-to-reach area. Though […]
Resident life in John Brown’s oldest dorm looks a lot different this year. While one half of J. Alvin Brown Hall is under construction, the other half is occupied by more than a hundred students, mostly freshmen and sophomores. Other students, mostly upperclassmen, have been moved to the all-male townhouses. […]
The U.S. News and World Report named John Brown University the Best Value College in the South for the second year in a row. The magazine rated colleges mostly by a ratio of quality to price, also taking to account need-based financial aid. The article cites the university’s diversity, small […]