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Evangel University students will present the Broadway musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown this month in the Barnett Fine Arts Theatre.
Performances will take place at 7 p.m. April 4-6 and April 11-13. There will also be matinee performances at 2 p.m. on April 6 and April 13.
“EU Night” is scheduled for opening night, April 4. Tickets are $5 for everyone with an Evangel ID in attendance that evening.
For all other shows, tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for group tickets (10 people or more), and $6 for students.
The production will be directed by David Smith, director of Evangel’s theatre program, and Lori Lawley, 1985 Evangel graduate.
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is adapted from the comic strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schultz, with book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner.
In this musical Charlie Brown, as portrayed by Evangel senior Jordan Walker, searches for approval from friends Lucy, Patti, Schroeder, Linus and Snoopy.
“It excites me to have the opportunity to portray an American icon. The musical is full of humor, upset and trivial things, but in the end, it’s about finding out who you are,” says Walker. “This is what I like most about the musical — its relevancy to life today. It’s a look into how we grow through our triumphs and disappointments.”
Walker is playing the lead role after completing his senior voice recital earlier this spring as part of the certification requirements for performance majors. He plans to pursue a master’s degree in music education at Evangel after graduation.
“This is a show for the entire family. You won’t want to miss this delightful spin on the famous Peanuts comic strip,” Smith says. “Expect a lively play with wonderful music and staging.”
Tickets may be purchased at the door or by calling Lisa Kraus at (417) 865-2815, ext. 8640.
One of the Spring Break service trip teams traveled to Turkey, where they toured historic biblical sites and taught English to local students.
Four continents. Nine countries. Fifteen teams.
From Springfield, Missouri to the other side of the world, more than 150 Evangel University students of a variety of majors participated in Spring Break service trips this month to spread the gospel and encounter other cultures.
Most of the trips were sponsored by Global Connections, the cross-cultural awareness program that is part of Evangel’s Frameworks curriculum. Spring Break trips are designed each year to help strengthen students’ spiritual formation as they experience global cultures, learn about other perspectives and worldviews, and actively participate in service and ministry projects. CROSSwalk, Evangel’s student ministries organization, helped organize and lead many of the trips.
“Spring Break trips enable students to live out Evangel’s mission of integrating faith and career,” says Alli Fontaine, Global Connections logistics coordinator. “We desire that the students develop lasting relationships with their team members and sponsors, gain a greater perspective of the world and differing cultures, as well as make an eternal impact on those they meet and serve while traveling.”
Senior Becca Clark, who served as the student leader on a trip to San Paulo, Brazil, said it was gaining a new perspective on how other cultures worship that made the trip a powerful experience for her. “It was encouraging to see that even though cultures are different, the message and the power of Christ is universal,” she says.
Becky Spain (center), director of retention, and freshman Briana English led a team of six to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where they participated in service projects and outreaches with a local church.
Clark’s group of 11 Evangel students and faculty worked with a children’s street ministry in San Paulo.
She says the team found the passion the Brazilians have for prayer, worship and service to be powerful – though they sometimes express it in unique ways. “One thing that was different was that at church they greet one another with a hug and a kiss,” she said. “It wasn’t hard to adjust to because we could see the love of Christ shining through the people.”
For many of the students, like freshman Jami McConnell, this Spring Break service trip was their first experience traveling overseas.
McConnell, who traveled to Wales, says her trip was incredible and inspiring – the best first-time experience she could have asked for.
“Our encounter with the culture of Wales was very special because we were not just observing the way these people live from a distance,” McConnell says. “We were able to develop relationships with many people, which is the primary form of witness in Europe. You must develop relationships with people before you can really begin witnessing.”
Sarah Kempski, a junior, also left the country for the first time over Spring Break on a trip to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She and her team spent a few days in the homes of some Dominican students, which she says were small and had very few amenities compared to homes in the United States.
While Kempski says a few cultural changes, such as not using running water or being able to flush toilet paper, took some getting used to, she experienced some of the nicest people she had ever met.
“It’s one thing to learn about Dominican culture from articles and textbooks, but it is completely different to be immersed in it,” Kempski says. “Seeing what little some have is heartbreaking, but at the same time it’s amazing to see their happiness and joy despite their difficulties.”
Senior Jeremy Crabtree’s trip to Turkey was also his first time overseas. He had desired to get out of the country amd experience another culture for a long time, but never had the chance. “The most impactful part of the trip was connecting with other university students and building relationships with the locals.”
Other students, like Briana English, freshman, have had several cross-cultural experiences, but find that they learn something new every time. English was a student leader for the Dominican Republic trip. She says the entire team formed a valuable chemistry as they worked together and encouraged each other.
“None of us were friends prior to this trip, and now I cannot imagine not having them in my life,” she says.
English says one highlight was when the team held an altar call at the end of an assembly at a public school, and children responded. She said, “Just knowing that we were able to help expand the kingdom of God was reason enough to deem it a success. God was able to use us, and that was the whole reason for the trip.”
Broadened perspectives, new relationships, changed lives – all over the world. That is what Spring Break service trips are all about.
See photo blogs of the Spring Break service trips at the Evangel Undergrad Facebook page.
– By Ian Richardson, a junior English major from Afton, Iowa
The "60 Minutes" correspondent will lead an interfaith conversation with six distinguished guests on finding common ground in a diverse world.
Award-winning “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan will moderate a special panel discussion focused on issues of faith during Elon University’s Spring Convocation on April 30. The convocation is the headline event in a day of activities that will mark the dedication of the new Numen Lumen Pavilion, a multi-faith center for prayer, reflection and interfaith dialogue in Elon's Academic Village.
The convocation, titled “Sacred Space: The Promise of Peace and Understanding in Our World – A Multi-Faith Conversation,” includes six distinguished panelists who have earned international reputations as scholars, leaders and educators in their respective faith communities.
Spring Convocation will be held April 30 at 3:30 p.m. in Alumni Gym in the Koury Athletic Center. Tickets will be available beginning April 9 and are $12 each or free with an Elon ID. Box Office hours in the Center for the Arts are 12:30 – 5 p.m., Monday-Friday; call 336.278.5610 for more information on tickets.
The convocation will follow shortly after the formal dedication of the Numen Lumen Pavilion, which houses the Vera Richardson Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the Elon Center for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society.
The six panelists who will participate in the convocation include the following:
Arjia Rinpoche, the former abbot of Kumbum Monastery, one of the six great centers of Buddhism in Tibet, and the only Tibetan high lama of Mongolian descent. Because of the strained political climate and culture in Tibet, and refusing to compromise his spiritual beliefs and practices, he went into exile in 1998. He now lives in the United States where he’s a devoted scholar and teacher. He established the Tibetan Center for Compassion and Wisdom to advance the understanding of Tibetan Buddhism in the West.
The Right Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, elected 11th bishop of North Carolina’s Episcopal Church in 2000. In his three parish ministries in North Carolina, Ohio and Maryland, Curry has extensive involvement in Crisis Control Ministry and has founded ecumenical summer day camps for children, preaching missions, the Absalom Jones Initiative and educational centers. In addition, he has brokered millions of dollars of investment in inner-city neighborhoods.
Greg M. Epstein, a secular humanist and the humanist chaplain at Harvard University. In 2005 the New York Times bestselling author received ordination as a humanist rabbi from the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism. In his seven years at Harvard, he launched a range of new programs and initiatives, making humanist chaplaincy a topic of national discussion. He currently directs the Humanist Community Project, a laboratory for the development of multicultural, multigenerational humanist communities locally and nationwide.
Sharon M.K. Kugler, a Roman Catholic and the university chaplain at Yale University. She is the first woman and the first Catholic appointed to the Yale chaplaincy and has received national recognition for cultivating a ministry that defines itself by serving diverse cultural and religious traditions. Kugler has two decades of experience in higher education, interfaith collaboration, and pastoral and social ministry. Her master’s thesis on building a religiously plural community was used by the U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Chief of Chaplains as a training tool for new chaplains in the military.
Eboo Patel, an American Muslim of Indian heritage who is an author, journalist and founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core. The visionary behind a youth organization that promotes religious pluralism, Patel has spoken at TED conferences, the Clinton Global Initiative and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, as well as on college and university campuses across the country. Patel was among the distinguished panelists who took part in Elon’s 2011 Convocation for Honors, which focused on major challenges facing American society.
Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. Named the most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek magazine and one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post, Wolpe is a popular media contributor on Jewish issues. He previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College and UCLA.
Guided by Lara Logan, the panelists will discuss the benefits and challenges of interfaith work, the dynamics between religious and nonreligious populations, and how the university can build on existing efforts to foster productive interfaith outcomes.
Now in her eighth season contributing to "60 Minutes," Logan also serves as co-host of the network’s special broadcast “Person to Person.”
Born in Durban, South Africa, Logan started her career in broadcast journalism in Africa as a senior producer for Reuters Television in 1992. Since that time, she has earned several honors for her news coverage, including the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for a report from the battlefield in Afghanistan as well as the RTDNA/Edward R. Murrow Award for a five-segment series about the U.S. Marines on patrol.
Logan’s reports were an integral part of CBS News’ coverage of the war in Iraq. She was the only journalist from an American network in Baghdad when the U.S. military invaded the city, reporting live from Firdos Square as the statue of Saddam fell. She broke the story of abuse of special needs Iraqi orphans on CBS Evening News in June 2007. During that same year, she reported from Pakistan on the death of Benazir Bhutto and its aftermath.
Her work in war zones has put her in harm’s way on more than one occasion. While reporting a “60 Minutes II” story about the war near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in 2005, the military vehicle she was riding in hit a double-tank mine. The explosion seriously wounded two soldiers. She escaped with minor injuries.
In February 2011, Logan was sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob in Tahrir Square while reporting a story for “60 Minutes” on the Egyptian Revolution. She broke her silence about the incident on “60 Minutes” to draw attention to the plight of women, particularly female journalists covering war zones.
Logan received an Emmy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and a Murrow Award for her 2006 report on American troops under fire in Ramadi, Iraq, a piece she and her producer completed while embedded with a U.S. military unit. She has received five American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards, the David Bloom Award from the Radio & Television Correspondents Association for excellence in enterprise reporting, and the Association of International Broadcaster’s Best International News Story Award for her report on the Taliban.
Logan graduated from the University of Natal in Durban in 1992 with a degree in commerce. She also holds a diploma in French language, culture and history from the Universite de L’Alliance Francaise in Paris. In addition to French, Logan speaks Afrikaans and basic Portuguese.
Elon’s Spring Convocation serves as an annual event to recognize Dean’s List and President’s List students, the faculty, the upcoming graduating class and members of the Elon Society, the premier annual giving group at Elon.
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Fairfield University's Center for Catholic Studies 2013 spring semester season of public events is highlighted by a February 15 concert co-sponsored by St. Anthony of Padua Church of Fairfield, marking the first time that the Center will partner with a parish on an event. The concert, taking place in the Egan Chapel on the Fairfield campus, is called "Age-to-Age: Generations of Faith," and will feature a performance by three Catholic musicians of varying ages and musical styles.
Lecture topics include Fr. Paul G. Crowley, S.J.'s Bellarmine Lecture on the challenges of religious faith today, Fordham University faculty members Tom Beaudoin's and Patrick Hornbeck's exploration of the phenomenon of "deconversion," or the changes in heart and mind that many American Catholics are experiencing with regard to their relationship with Catholicism, and the annual Commonweal Lecture in which the distinguished theologian Sr. Elizabeth Johnson will explore the topic of her forthcoming book on God and Darwin.
Directed by Paul Lakeland, Ph.D., the Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J. Chair in Catholic Studies, the Center for Catholic Studies provides an inter-disciplinary inquiry into the intellectual tradition, history and culture of the Catholic Christian tradition.
With the exception of the concert, all events are free. For details, please see the schedule below or visit http://www.fairfield.edu/cs/.
Spring 2013
Living Theology Workshop "Student Activism and the Jesuit Tradition" Julie Mughal, assistant director of Fairfield University's Center for Faith and Public Life Saturday, February 2, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Fairfield University DiMenna-Nyselius Library Multimedia Room Free
The 2013 Bellarmine Lecture "The Elusiveness of God in a Wary Age" Fr. Paul Crowley, S.J., Professor of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University Wednesday, February 13, 8 p.m. Fairfield University's Dolan School of Business Dining Room Free
"Age to Age: Generations of Faith" A concert with Steve Angrisano, Dan Schutte, and Curtis Stephan Co-sponsored by St. Anthony of Padua Parish and the Center for Catholic Studies Friday, February 15, 7:30 p.m. Egan Chapel of St. Ignatius Loyola Tickets are $10 and are available through the Quick Center Box Office; call (203) 254-4010, or toll-free 1-877-ARTS-396 (1-877-278-7396).
Living Theology Workshop "How Did the Nuns End Up on the Bus?" A viewing of the film "Band of Sisters" followed by a discussion with Sr. Jo-Ann Iannotti, OP and Sr. Rosemarie Greco, DW, Wisdom House Retreat Center Saturday, March 2, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. DiMenna-Nyselius Library Multimedia Room Free
"When Catholics Change Their Minds about Faith: Disaffiliation and 'Deconversion' in the Church Today" Patrick Hornbeck, Assistant Professor of Theology at Fordham University, and Thomas Beaudoin, Associate Professor of Theology, Graduate School of Religion, Fordham University Wednesday, March 20, 8 p.m. Dolan School of Business Dining Room Free
Living Theology Workshop "Is Service Serving Faith?" Fairfield University staff members Elyse Raby, of the Center for Catholic Studies, and Jocelyn Collen, of Campus Ministry Saturday, April 6, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. DiMenna-Nyselius Library Multimedia Room Free
The 7th Annual Commonweal Lecture "Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love" Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, Distinguished Professor of Theology, Fordham University Wednesday, April 17, 8 p.m. Dolan School of Business Dining Room Free
"Today's Catholics, Tomorrow's Church" Special lecture hosted by Religious Studies students Speaker to be announced Wednesday, April 24, 8 p.m. Dolan School of Business Dining Room Free
Media Contact: Meg McCaffrey, (203) 254-4000, ext. 2726, mmccaffrey@fairfield.edu
With the holidays now past and 2013 officially under way, Evangel University is preparing to welcome a new group of students to campus.
While fall is the traditional time for most new freshmen and transfer students to start college, there is always a new group in January as well, and Evangel staff and faculty work hard to ensure that these students are welcomed and integrated in the campus culture with an event known as EU Launch. About 30 new students are expected to begin their Evangel experience next week.
Residence halls will open at 9 a.m., on Monday, January 7, for new students to check in and move in. A variety of activities and information sessions is planned over the following days.
“EU Launch is designed to help the new students acclimate to the Evangel culture and make connections with the current students, faculty and staff,” says admissions counselor Laura Gummerman. “We use information sessions and bonding activates geared toward the new students and their parents to ensure that their first few days on campus are a comfortable and friendly transition into the Evangel family.”
Special sessions are planned for parents as well. See the full EU Launch schedule.
Classes begin on Wednesday, January 9.
Evangel Consolidation Update
Evangel University is pleased to anticipate its consolidation with the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary and Central Bible College beginning with the fall 2013 semester, pending approval of accrediting bodies. For information on the consolidation progress, please visit http://ag.org/top/consolidation/
One of the Spring Break service trip teams traveled to Turkey, where they toured historic biblical sites and taught English to local students. 
Becky Spain (center), director of retention, and freshman Briana English led a team of six to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where they participated in service projects and outreaches with a local church.
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The 2013 Bellarmine Lecture
