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In a previous blog, "Reflections On the Revolution in Egypt", some readers were critical about my citing the legacies of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. in connection with the successful non-violent protests and subsequent removal of Hosni Mubarak from power. These readers criticized me for associating, what they called "race", to the demonstrations in Cairo; when in their opinion, "race" was not an or the issue.

Such comments, presumably, were in response to several quotations cited by me from speeches of Dr. King, America's most prominent African-American, relevant to the success of non-violent disobedience in Tahrir Square.

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1000 Liberty University students host the international taste of the nations. They brought Missionaries from many countries together for this great event.

More than 1,400 Liberty University students, faculty, staff and visiting mission representatives packed the Schilling Center Wednesday night for the Taste of the Nations international food tasting.

The event, now in its sixth year, was organized by Liberty’s Office of International Student Services and was part of Missions Emphasis Week.

“It brings the U.S. together with all the different countries from around the world,” said Sharon Bloomfield, associate director of admissions for graduate and international students. “Americans get to sample foods from other parts of the world and international students get a chance to prepare their food and showcase it to some Americans.”

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Oral Roberts University is building a new $8 million student center

ORU is set to build an impressive $8 million dollar student center, the first new construction on campus in over 10 years.

An $8 million student center will be built at Oral Roberts University, President Mark Rutland announced Friday morning.

The building will be built east of 77th Street and South Lewis Avenue. This is the first new construction to the campus in at least a decade, ORU spokesperson Jeremy Burton said.

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Baylor now allowing non-Baptists on governing board

See what the largest Baptist College is now doing with their board of directors.

The governing body of Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist academic institution, now may include Christians who are not Baptists.

Baylor’s board of regents voted Feb. 11 to amend the university’s bylaws, allowing members who are active in Christian -- but not Baptist -- churches to comprise up to 25 percent of the board.

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Pirates kill 4 Americans passing out Bibles in the Gulf of Aden

Our prayers and condolences go to the families who lost loved ones today when pirates killed 4 American hostages sailing around the world passing out Bibles.

 

NAIROBI, Kenya – Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa were shot and killed by their captors Monday, the U.S. military said, marking the first time U.S. citizens have been killed in a wave of pirate attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years.

U.S. naval forces, who were trailing the Americans' captured yacht with four warships, quickly boarded the vessel after hearing the gunfire and tried to provide lifesaving care to the Americans, but they died of their wounds, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

 

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Third Day band teaming with Grand Canyon University to award $1 million in scholarships

Like the band Third Day? Want to go to a Christian University? You may just find yourself $10k richer in scholarship money--

 

Members of GRAMMY, Dove and American Music Award-winning rock band, Third Day, know that moving ahead in life can be amplified by having a quality education. It's for this reason that the band, known as one of the greatest live touring artists, has teamed with Arizona-based Grand Canyon University (GCU) for its upcoming spring Make Your Move tour to offer its fans a chance to advance with a college degree.

At each stop on Third Day's upcoming Make Your Move tour -- dates available at www.ThirdDay.com -- one qualified fan will be selected to receive a $10,000 scholarship to GCU, one of the country's fastest-growing, non-denominational, Christian universities with both online programming and a thriving physical campus in Phoenix. GCU's overall partnership with the Third Day tour includes up to $1 million in scholarships specifically allocated to Third Day fans during the duration of the band's spring and fall tours.

 

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Third Day band teaming with Grand Canyon University to award $1 million in scholarships

Like the band Third Day? Want to go to a Christian University? You may just find yourself $10k richer in scholarship money--

 

Members of GRAMMY, Dove and American Music Award-winning rock band, Third Day, know that moving ahead in life can be amplified by having a quality education. It's for this reason that the band, known as one of the greatest live touring artists, has teamed with Arizona-based Grand Canyon University (GCU) for its upcoming spring Make Your Move tour to offer its fans a chance to advance with a college degree.

At each stop on Third Day's upcoming Make Your Move tour -- dates available at www.ThirdDay.com -- one qualified fan will be selected to receive a $10,000 scholarship to GCU, one of the country's fastest-growing, non-denominational, Christian universities with both online programming and a thriving physical campus in Phoenix. GCU's overall partnership with the Third Day tour includes up to $1 million in scholarships specifically allocated to Third Day fans during the duration of the band's spring and fall tours.

 

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Baylor University named No. 5 most influential college on Twitter

Baylor University out-ranked Harvard, Syracuse, and Stanford, among others, to get the #5 spot on the most influential college on Twitter.

According to data compiled by Klout.com, Baylor is the No. 5 most influential college on Twitter — surpassed only by Stanford, Syracuse, Harvard and Wisconsin, and ahead of, well, any other university you can think of (in Texas, the Big 12, etc.).

So, what does Klout.com take into consideration when determining these rankings?

• Size of your engaged audience (number of followers, retweets, etc.),
• Likelihood content will be acted upon
• influence level of your engaged audience

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http://www2.baylor.edu/baylorproud/

Liberty University - Missions Emphasis Week kicks off at Liberty University

Liberty University is the largest and fastest growing Christian Evangelical university in the world. Fully accredited, Liberty University offers both campus-based degree programs and over 40 online degree programs in a wide-range of religious, theological, and secular fields ranging from business and education, to divinity and Christian counseling.

This week, Liberty University kicked off it's Missions emphasis week to give students a glimpse of mission's work and how missionaries live on the mission field.

 

Liberty holds Missions Emphasis Week each semester to give students an opportunity to hear the stories and testimonies of missionaries and to consider God’s will for their own lives as it applies to missions. This year’s theme is “Ethnos,” a Greek word meaning “nation, people group or tribe.”

“We hope to expose students to the needs that exist around the world and give them the opportunities to get involved, whether it be long-term or short-term missions,” said Lindsay Taylor, coordinator of Missions Emphasis Week. “We hope the students catch a global vision as a result of the week.”

 

Read the full story here Liberty University Mission's Emphasis Week or you can read a Review of Liberty University here.

 

Sources:

http://www.christian-universities.net/christian-colleges/liberty-university-o...

http://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=26426

 

Abilene Christian University is now giving an iPhone or iPod Touch to all incoming freshman

Finally, a university that understands its students...

Abilene Christian University is taking a bold move, offering incoming freshmen their choice of either an iPhone or an iPod.

 

To meet the students in their digital space, ACU gave faculty and every student on campus an iPhone or an iPod Touch last fall. Students can choose either one, but if they want the cell phone functionality of the former, they pay for that themselves.

Unlike other schools in the country that have handed out high tech devices, ACU has made a point of tracking usage and researching what, if any, benefits the devices have provided. One early lesson: Not all devices are created equal. When students are asked how often they use their device for academic purposes, there is a statistically significant higher level of satisfaction among iPhone users, which is about 68 percent of the campus. "Because it’s socially connected, students don’t go anywhere without it," says Saltsman, noting that a device without cell phone capability will be more likely to be left at home.

 

Check out the full story on ACU's iPod and iPhone program here.