by Becca Risley | Sep 12, 2016 | News Slider, Sports
After a two-day weekend intensive, this year’s cheer team has been announced. The group features 24 Lipscomb students, all of whom have demonstrated skills in tumbling and stunting. “I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful university, athletic department and the cheerleading team,” coach Pam Pearson said. “These individuals have put in so many hours this summer to improve their skills and it showed at tryouts.” In no particular order, the 2016-2017 squad is as follows: Hayden Hines Karlie Wigginton Payton Crider Megan Gillon Addie Britton Aubrey Watson Karley Adams Lindsey Nance Kelsey Nussbaumer Janiah Knight Sierra Knuckles Angelina Facunla Ryan Kibble Heather Greene Katelyn Prine Hunter Brown Hayden Brown D.J. Jones Leticia Adkinson Kalieanna Grant Ashlee Brandon Kiana Janbakhsh Hayden Hall Hannah McFarland In the event of absence or injury, the team has also taken Jamie Feller and Caroline Stack as alternates. The Lipscomb cheer team can be seen on the sidelines and during the halftime show at all basketball home games this season. “We are so far beyond where we ended our season last year and that is due to the talent that we have attracted along with a lot of dedication and hard work,” Pearson said. “We will continue to work hard and we look forward to our first game in Allen Arena.” Photos by Becca Risley...
by Becca Risley | Sep 7, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
Set here and now, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s production of the classic tragedy Macbeth spins the bloody horror in a modern light. At the top of the show, the stage is set with an interactive element in mind. The entire cast is dressed in unkempt, contemporary clothing and presents the majority of the story on the back of a pick-up stage left, a sound stage set in the center, a side platform stage right and the grass encompassing the three. The show opens with Macbeth, a Scottish general, receiving a prophesy from three witches, claiming that he will be King of Scotland. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth proceeds to kill anyone that poses a threat to his crown, but he manages to lose his humanity in the process. Junior Morgan Bowling plays Seyton. “He’s Macbeth’s personal mercenary, but I also represent the death that’s happened because of him,” Bowling said. Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, become hungry for the power they are set to inherit and do whatever it takes to get what’s promised to them, including taking responsibility for the murders of close friends and innocent little ones. The murders are executed by Seyton and his army. After each character suffers a tragic death, they then rise from the ground and join the army of Seyton in accompanying Macbeth throughout the story. “I play The Porter,” junior Mary Elizabeth Roberts said. “I am the gatekeeper for the Macbeth household. The Porter just kind of comes out in the middle of all this tragedy and chaos and is very vile and crude. “It’s so fun to interact with...
by Becca Risley | Aug 31, 2016 | News Slider
It’s okay to be irrelevant. At least that’s what freshman Breckin Horton believes after spending this summer working as an intern for The Pearl House in Ghana, Africa. The group home seeks to help several young, impoverished women discover their identity and purpose in Christ by providing them an open and safe environment to do so. “It changed my whole entire theology and the way that I look at what happens to us in life and what God wants with us,” Horton said. “Going out of high school, when you’re the big dog, and then going somewhere where people know nothing about you, and they don’t care about your accomplishments, learning to be cool with that and embracing it and finding your value in who God says you are and the names He has for you is incredibly humbling.” The Pearl House is a well-funded, 3,000 square-foot home for young women ages 13-21 who have been brought to the house due to unsafe or unlivable circumstances. Courtney Garland, an alumna of Lipscomb circa 2000, moved to Ghana three years ago to be the live-in house mom for the 20 girls staying at The Pearl House. “She was a youth minister at White Station Church of Christ in Memphis, and three years ago she got connected with a couple who was starting a nonprofit orphanage,” Horton said. “Everything just fell together. It was very clear that’s where God wanted her to be, and she always felt called to do African missions after having done many trips to Ghana before.” Three years later, The Pearl House serves as a safe and...
by Becca Risley | Apr 22, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
Class was back in session as two-time Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist Lecrae dropped by Collins Auditorium Thursday night as part of his 2016 Higher Learning Tour. In a speech to the audience, Lecrae said that the purpose of this college-only tour was to inspire all walks of life. The theme of the night was Unashamed. “Being unashamed is more than just wearing a t-shirt,” Lecrae said. “Being unashamed is saying that you can, without a doubt, stand up for what you believe in. Being unashamed is saying, ‘I’m willing to go to the hard place, and do the hard thing.’” For the Higher Learning tour, Lecrae partnered with Food for the Hungry, an organization that travels to and provides food to impoverished third world countries. “One of the reasons I partnered with them is that they’re unashamed to go to places that no one wants to go,” Lecrae said. Lecrae challenged the audience to spend $35 and invest in the lives of children in Uganda and East Africa. For every $35 donated, one child is taken care of physically and financially. “They’re giving us an opportunity to feed the soul, the bodies, the kids that nobody is caring for,” Lecrae said. “If all of us do this for one kid, we’d change an entire city, an entire country. “There’s no way I’m going to ask people to do something I’m not doing. I’m a part of this too.” During his performance, Lecrae performed hits from his 2011 album Rehab, the 2014 album Anomaly and consecutive singles from Church Clothes 1, 2, and 3. Lecrae alternated between sharing personal anecdotes...
by Becca Risley | Apr 22, 2016 | Galleries
Class was back in session as two-time Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist Lecrae dropped by Collins Auditorium Thursday night as part of his 2016 Higher Learning Tour. Photos by Becca Risley...
