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Author to discuss novel ideas at Bluffton on March 29

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 21, 2011 - 3:45pm

Writer Clint McCown will present "Finding Your Way Through the Dark Woods: How Novels Come into Being" in a Bluffton University Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 29, in Founders Hall. Part of Bluffton's 27th annual English Festival, the forum is free and open to the public.

McCown is the guest author at the festival, an event for high school sophomores, juniors and seniors who visit the university for a day of literary and writing activities, including workshops and discussion with Bluffton faculty and the featured writer.

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Bluffton's Camerata Singers to present 'Home' concert

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 21, 2011 - 3:44pm

Bluffton University's Camerata Singers, who recently returned from a spring-break tour, will reprise the tour program, "From Prayer to Praise," in their "Home" concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 27, in Yoder Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

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Bluffton University clarinetist to perform senior recital

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 21, 2011 - 3:41pm

Karla Funk, a clarinetist from Salina, Kan., will present her Bluffton University senior recital at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 26, in Yoder Recital Hall on the Bluffton campus. The recital is free and open to the public; a reception will follow in the lobby.

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Evangelical theology challenges, renews Mennonite pacifism: Mast

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 21, 2011 - 3:39pm

Evangelical theology poses "a profound challenge" to Anabaptist peace convictions, says Dr. Gerald Mast. But accepting that challenge "is essential to renew biblical peace conviction in both the Mennonite church and the Christian church as a whole," argues the Bluffton University professor and church scholar.

"When rightly understood," he adds, evangelical theology "offers a way for peace to be practiced, not just as an art of the possible but also as an expression of the impossible."

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Bluffton University students answer call to serve during spring break

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 20, 2011 - 7:43pm

Leroy Barber, president of the urban initiative Mission Year, issued a challenge to Bluffton University students last October when he addressed them during Spiritual Life Week on campus.

Over spring break, two dozen Bluffton students took him up on it.

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#25 Thomas More sweeps doubleheader at Bluffton (baseball)

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 20, 2011 - 7:37pm

The Bluffton University baseball team fell to Thomas More twice on Saturday, March 19, 17-3 and 6-4. With the two losses, the Beavers dropped to 6-7 on the season while the Saints stayed perfect at 9-0.

The Saints plated four runs in the first inning, six in the third, one in the top of the fourth, four more in the fifth, and finally two in the sixth frame for a 14-run difference in the Thomas More victory.

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