Senator James Lankford (R) from Oklahoma paid an impromptu visit to Liberty University’s campus on Feb. 1 and taped a segment for the Fox News talk show “The Ingraham Angle” from Liberty’s television studios in Green Hall. Sen. Lankford had just left a Republican Party policy retreat in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. Only the day before, on Jan. 31, […]
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The Liberty University Police Department, in the rollout of the spring semester, has implemented a new policy that requires all attendees to walk through a metal detectors and have their bags checked before entering the Vines Center in an attempt to ensure students’ safety. “Convocation is the largest gathering of Christians which occurs on a reg ular basis,” Ron Sloan, […]
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Liberty University upperclassmen will have the opportunity to experience on-campus living with certain off-campus freedoms through the Office of Residence Life’s Independent Housing Program for the 2018-2019 academic year. Students accepted into the pilot program will live on East 40 or 41 and will be exempt from curfew checks and cleanliness checks. The program offers accepted students the same apartment-style […]
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The Center for Multicultural Enrichment and the Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement hosted more than 250 students in the Science Hall auditorium to hear from well-educated speakers about diversity Feb. 1. These organizations held the Diversity Symposium to talk about contextualizing apologetics and discuss Christianity with contextualization. The goal of the night for the Center for Apologetics and Cultural […]
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Liberty University Student Government Association is experiencing division as the House of Delegates has been trying to pass taboo and controversial bills, many of which directly contradict the Liberty Way. Among the resolutions that were proposed last semester was one to allow foul language, another to allow drinking off campus and another that would allow consumption of tobacco products. These […]
Read moreAs Christians seek to find out more information regarding mental illness and suicide prevention in their churches, Liberty University partnered with Lifeway Research and the American Association of Christian Counselors in the fall of 2017 to survey how local churches address suicide. Lifeway Research surveyed pastors and laypeople to comprehensively report on this issue in local Protestant churches. Liberty’s Provost […]
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The Outdoor Recreation Department is holding a Wilderness First Responder course March 17-25, during Liberty’s spring break, that will help teach safety and first aid to the sizable community of hikers on Liberty’s campus. Lynchburg, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is in a region rich with mountain treks and breathtaking landscape views. With this opportunity comes an increased risk […]
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Liberty University welcomed to Wednesday’s Convocation Jay and Katherine Wolf, who spent their time on stage giving students a message of unwavering hope and recovery that they proclaimed is available to all through Jesus Christ. The Wolfs’ message of hope was tied to their testimony that they shared to students at Convocation and centered around a sudden, life-altering event which […]
Read moreLiberty University proved itself above all the rest as the Freedom Tower, the campus’ newest 275 foot addition, opened for classes, becoming the tallest structure in Lynchburg with an official debut slated for Feb. 5. The tower, which took two-and-a-half years to build and suffered numerous setbacks, is distinct not only for its impressive height, but for its state of […]
Read moreThe Liberty University Bible Resource Center, an online database with hundreds of articles on biblical topics, launched Wednesday, Jan. 24, as a free resource for pastors and laypeople across the globe. Currently, the Bible Resource Center contains more than 200 articles as a part of the SWORD Project — an undertaking started by Harold Willmington, the dean of Willmington School […]
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Less than a year after 2017’s total solar eclipse, the United States will face another astronomical phenomenon — a Super Blue Blood Moon Wednesday, Jan. 31. According to timeanddate.com, a Norwegian weather and time data company, the global event is a total lunar eclipse. However, the view of the event from Lynchburg will be limited to a partial lunar eclipse […]
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As flu season reaches its peak across the country, Liberty University Student Health Center and Wellness Initiatives is taking action to prevent the spread of the flu on campus. Campus numbers are much different from national ones, as the level of on-campus flu cases is down from that at the height of the 2016-2017 flu season, when about one percent […]
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Liberty University student Riley Hayes won the Youth Leadership Award from the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action after months of determined work and was recognized Jan. 13, 2018 in Washington, D.C. when he accepted his award. Hayes worked independently for five months before putting together a team of six members that went door-to-door on weekends, asking residents questions […]
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WinterFest Thousands gathered in the Vines Center Dec. 30-31 for the 16th annual WinterFest, closing out the year with two days of performances by highly acclaimed Christian entertainers. According to Liberty News Service, the 16 acts that performed over the two-day event included Crowder, Skillet, Andy Mineo and illusionist Justin Flom. Two screenings of the not-yet-released film, “I Can Only Imagine,” were held in the Center […]
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Before Liberty University students returned to campus for the spring semester, an LU Send Now team of students was deployed to California Jan. 14-21 where they partnered with the Dream Center and worked with those suffering from homelessness in Skid Row, Los Angeles. Initially, Send Now planned to send a team to do disaster relief following the 2017 California wildfires—the […]
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