American culture generates restlessness, telling people through advertising that what they have-including other people in their lives-isn't good enough. As a result, many get on a "treadmill," always looking for something better, Dr. Norman Wirzba said Nov. 1 at Bluffton University.
Sabbath sets restlessness aside, though, telling those who take time for it that they, and the ones they're with, are gifts from God, added the Duke Divinity School professor.
Stratton Auto Sales, 220 N. Main St., Bluffton, is offering a $109 pre-winter car care special during November and December.
The offer includes:
*Oil and filter change
*4-tire rotation and inspection
*Multi-point inspection
*Anti-freeze drain and refill
*Balance 4 tires
*Battery/charging sytem check
oCheck heating system
Call Stratton Auto Sales at 419-358-1900. For a printer-friendly coupon of the $109 coupon print the attachment at the bottom of this story. This offer expires Dec. 31, 2011.
Dr. Thomas Streeter, professor and chair of sociology at the University of Vermont, will address "The Net Effect: What the Internet Tells us about Ourselves" at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Bluffton University's Yoder Recital Hall. The forum is free and open to the public.
Streeter is the author of the 2010 book "The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet," a study of the role of culture in the social construction of Internet technology.
Hannah Chappell-Dick remembers with clarity the first race she competed in. It was a half-mile race, which she thought meant she would run down the field and back. She laughed when she remembers learning it was actually a little further than that. Running at the front of the pack, her time was 3:58 and she placed sixth overall - boys and girls included.
The Bluffton University women's soccer team advanced to its first-ever Heartland Conference tournament final match with a 3-2 win over #1 seed Earlham College this afternoon.
They will travel to #2 seed Hanover College for the finals at 1 PM on Saturday, Nov. 5. The winner of that match earns an automatic berth to the NCAA Regional tournament which starts next week.
Soccer Box Score (Final)
2011 Bluffton University Women's Soccer
#4 Bluffton University vs #1 Earlham College (11-02-11 at Richmond, Indiana)
