Friends, supporters and interested voters gathered at Lynchburg’s JoJo’s Pizza the evening of Jan. 14 for an opportunity to meet U.S. Senate candidate, Daniel Gade. Gade, an army veteran, spoke on the importance of Republicans taking back the majority in Virginia and stressed his support of Second Amendment sanctuary cities just hours before Gade attended the Lynchburg City Council meeting […]
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Liberty University announced Dr. Stephen W. Müller as the interim dean of the School of Music, a position held by Dr. Vernon Whaley since 2012. Before joining the Liberty faculty in 2013, Müller spent time in the music education field at schools and churches in Texas, Washington state and California. Müller holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and […]
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School of Divinity students and faculty members arrived back in Lynchburg Tuesday, Jan. 14, after an “Academic and Spiritual Enrichment” trip to Israel. The group consisted of 81 students and faculty members, including both residential and Liberty Online students, many of whom went on a $2,000 scholarship from the Keesee Foundation to go towards covering the cost of the […]
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LU Serve put its motto “Touch, Engage, Go” into practice this month with the Winter G5 Colombia trip. As this year’s country of focus for the G5 campaign, Colombia is a strategic oppurtunity in South America with the Venezuelan crisis nearby. In the last few years, 1.4 million Venezuelans have taken refuge within Colombia alone, according to UN News. LU […]
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What do you do if you wake up early on a Saturday morning? Do you roll over and go back to sleep? Get up and start your day? That might not seem like a very significant dilemma, but which option you choose determines how the rest of your day will look. Our lives are filled with choices. Some of them […]
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World War I was branded “the war to end all wars” (spoiler alert: it wasn’t). Never before had humanity seen such mass destruction impacting multiple countries from different continents. The Greatest Generation understood the devastating effects of war economically, emotionally and physically, as they were drafted into World War II. Although it seems like America has constantly been at war […]
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With graduation on the horizon for many college seniors, the future seems to loom constantly in our minds. What’s next? Truthfully, we don’t really know. And we never really will, as hard as we try. Not one of us knows what tomorrow holds. As hard as we try to micromanage each day, what we plan is a mere prediction, at […]
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By now, the fact that the Houston Astros cheated their way to a World Series title is old news. The sign stealing allegations against the Astros have rocked the world of baseball like never before. Fines and suspensions have been handed down, condemnations issued and reputations ruined. The Astros won their World Series title in 2017 by stealing signs to […]
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Defending the ASUN Track & Field Indoor Championship title will be a new challenge for Liberty, who won both the men’s and women’s championships last season. Liberty’s track & field team hosted the ASUN Track & Field Indoor Championship at the Liberty Indoor Track Complex and became the first team in Liberty history to win an ASUN Conference title. The […]
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This is the first of a two part series addressing the proper Christian response to tragedy in the world. Perhaps the most unanimously agreeable statement shared between all worldviews is that a lot of bad stuff is going on in the world. Australia has been on fire since November, a Philippine volcanic eruption has displaced 30,000 people and over 1,200 earthquakes have shook Puerto […]
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The Liberty Flames swim team traveled to Florida over break where they grew closer as a team while they competed against rival schools. Student athletes spend a lot of time together, but usually there’s a lot going on between practice and a large amount of schoolwork to finish. Having downtime to talk to teammates is an important factor in building […]
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After soccer, hockey is perhaps the sport with the largest international reach and appeal, especially across Europe and North America. The Liberty men’s hockey team got a small taste of that international flavor over winter break as they traveled through Finland to serve the community and play hockey. This was the first missions trip with the team for many of […]
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Sophomore worship major Jack Underwood had no idea how he would pay for his spring semester at Liberty. Taking a full course load while working 40 hours a week was proving to be impossible, and he wondered if college was even an option. “Everything in me wanted to (quit), but everyone that loved me didn’t want me to,” Jack said. […]
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After making the transition from high school to the NCAA level with relative ease and dominating the Big South Conference in her first season at Liberty, Keyen Green hit a bump in her basketball career Nov. 24, 2017, in a game against the University of Houston. “I went for a rebound and came down on somebody’s foot, as a lot […]
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When asked whether it was harder to learn to speak English or to score 1,000 career points, senior guard Georgie Pacheco-Ortiz said it was more challenging to learn English. “I came here to the States my sophomore year of high school without knowing any English, and it was hard for me to understand and speak another language I’d never spoken […]
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