Saturday is usually a day people spend focused on refreshing and resting themselves, but instead, a group of students spend their Saturdays helping the surrounding community find rest. Over 15 years ago, a group of Liberty University students and faculty had a heart for sharing the gospel with their community. The now weekly ministry in the Lynchburg area is working […]
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Ciera Lehmann did not like her nose. Or her legs. But, she thought, that is normal. Everyone has their insecurities. Ciera never thought she struggled with major body image issues. She has known and accepted her identity as a daughter of God since she was 3 years old. She is the daughter of two pastors, both her mother and father, […]
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A passion for music took one associate professor in the School of Music across the world. Dr. Taesong Kim has lived most of his life surrounded by the piano. He started lessons at age 11 in Korea and learned classical music on the piano. He excelled quickly, winning second place in a competition. But after a few years, he stopped […]
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The International Student Center gave students the opportunity to experience the food and culture of Colombia at its Lunch and Learn event on Oct. 16. Students sampled Colombian coffee and tres leches, a sponge cake consisting of three different kinds of milk. Attendees able to heard the story of Kike Caycedo. Caycedo works as the Operations Assistant in the International […]
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For years, thousands of students have flooded out of the Vines Center after Convocation, stepping over an unassuming gray metal grate in the sidewalk. The light peeking through that grate illuminates a cement room. Although small, the room is vital – holding the green transformer box that once powered the Vines Center, which is now silent and superfluous due to […]
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Ronald Reagan once said, “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” At the core of almost every human being is the innate desire to help those who seem helpless, defenseless or lost. Our hearts yearn for peace, and they seek out justice because we were created for it. No wonder the United States has been listed by the […]
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Winter break is quickly approaching for students as the fall semester nears the end. Thus, in the midst of a pandemic and the level of uncertainty that still remains in the world, universities have been tasked with deciding what to do for the spring semester. Liberty updated the university calendar Oct. 7 in regard to the spring semester schedule. Major […]
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Americans often forget how big of a global impact our country makes on the world. Because of our country’s superpower status, Americans may not be so inclined to pay attention to international news. Therefore, we should be more cautious of only turning inward and not paying attention to what happens outside our borders. In 2018, a Pew Research Center study […]
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In the weeks leading up to the election, it appears that social media apps like Twitter and Facebook made it clear who they want as their next president with tech censorship seeming to be at an all-time high. A recent example of this is The New York Post publishing the breaking news article regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop, and both Twitter […]
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Sympathy and empathy are different, and Christians must distinguish the two. After seeing a rise in the use of the word empathy, I wondered if many even knew what the virtue actually means. Many people use sympathy and empathy interchangeably, but in a world full of striving empathizers, the biblical truth of sympathy is swallowed up by a modern belief […]
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Another curveball hit the 2020 NASCAR season in the form of a race that took not one – not two – not three – but four days to complete. When the dust finally settled, William Byron finished in 13th place in the Autotrader Echopark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. However, Byron will remember this weekend more for what happened […]
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A group of 14 students from the School of Music walked onto a dim stage. As performers in the Artist Development Showcase for the Fall 2020 semester, these talented artists were prepared to belt out songs that they had worked tirelessly all semester to perfect. Each student was given an opportunity to perform his or her own stylistic take on […]
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“We are here, we are here,” Sonic-Con creator Chris Nelson announced. “It is great to be here in the midst of all of you. Sonic-Con lives!” There was a sense of pride in the room as Sonic-Con began. The event prevailed through two long years of planning only to get postponed from its original March date because of COVID-19. After […]
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Jon Gregoire was a senior business major with a passion for Christ. Well-known on campus for his kindness and his student evangelism efforts, Gregoire was a promising student with a bright future ahead of him, until he died in a tragic accident at a train track before his graduation. Like Jon Gregoire, there have been many other phenomenal students with […]
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The Lion & Lamb Café in Thomas Road Baptist Church is now on its second month of its latest mission focused campaign, “Coffee for a Cause.” Coffee for a Cause is a volunteer run program on Sunday mornings where the café serves free brewed coffee in exchange for a donation of any amount. One hundred percent of profits go to […]
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