Oklahoma students drill wells in Rwanda
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Christian University students, whose nonprofit group is called Rwandans4Water, flew to Rwanda to drill water wells in 15 communities. A unique…
Staff Reports
Viral infection claims Abilene principal
ABILENE, TEXAS — As the new school year opened, Myrna Powers was excited about moving from California and starting her new job as principal of…
Newsmakers, October 2010
NAMED: Craig Carroll, chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn. Jane Melton and Jerry Strader to the board…
EDITORIAL: Church camp — an idea worth exporting
Gander Brook. Quartz Mountain. Bootheel. High Rock. White River. Manatawny. Palmetto. Pettijohn Springs. Aloha. Yamhill. Blue Haven.For many of us, these names — and please…
After parents’ divorce, God provided a new family through the church
I am a child of divorce. Twenty years into my parents’ marriage, everything fell apart — our family, our emotions, our lifestyle. They got divorced,…
Newsmakers, September 2010
NAMED: Ada Portillo, intern for The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars in Washington. Portillo is a student at Ohio Valley University in Vienna,…
REVIEW: Books detail histories of Christian schools
Tertullian once famously asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” noting the apparent divide between academics and the church. According to two distinguished authors…
Letters to the editor, September 2010
‘Islam does not promote tolerance’ I was horrified to read my statements taken completely out of context in “Can Christians and Muslims coexist?” (Page 1,…
A Buccaneer’s big season
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — A mathematics major with an overall 3.93 grade-point average, Hoilman has been named Atlantic Sun Conference Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year.…
An unlikely prison minister remembers the call
My first visit to a jail came when I was 20 — and I really had no business being there. After all, what could a…
