by Danielle Boyd | Jan 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Well known Christian author and speaker Donald Miller challenged his audience to contemplate this question when he spoke at Lipscomb Wednesday night: “Why do we not see Jesus?” Miller, who led a discussion entitled “Where in the world is Jesus?” in Collins Alumni Auditorium, travels around the world to speak at universities, sharing his faith through real life experiences. Answering his own question, Miller said, “The reason we don’t see Christ in the world is because we are not bringing Christ in the world.” Miller said the people of Christ must allow their faith to manifest itself in their daily activities. Miller, the author of Blue Like Jazz, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2002, and several other books, visited Lipscomb two years ago and jokingly said he wanted to pick up the discussion from where he left off previously. Miller challenged the audience with a deeper self-contemplation on the reasons “why we can’t recognize Jesus.” Miller said the first issue is that “God is not attractive (in an American culture).” He supported this idea with the Biblical text in Isaiah 53:2-3 (NIV). “He grew up like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.” The second point Miller made is that “Jesus in not helping us to win validation in a...
by Danielle Boyd | Nov 11, 2011 | News Slider
Kappa Iota Theta will present its second annual Stomp Fest Friday, Nov. 11 at 9 p.m. Two years ago, Elizabeth Hayes, a social work major from Nashville, shared her interest in creating an annual step show on campus. Inspired by the movie “Stomp the Yard,” Hayes had a new vision of bringing students together through dance and step. In November 2010, Kappa Iota Theta held its first stepping competition between social clubs on campus. “You have talent shows where everybody sings,” said Hayes. “You have Singarama where everybody dances and sings at the same time, but you don’t have anything where they really step.” Now a senior and the president of Kappa Iota Theta, the multicultural association, Hayes feels optimistic that the step show will continue to be an annual tradition that brings students together. “I was shocked and thrilled at last year’s turnout of the first competition,” said Assistant Dean of Student Intercultural Development Tenielle Buchanan. “I am expecting the teams to be bigger and better than last year.” “I’m really happy that Stomp Fest is back again,” said Hayes. “I think it’s going be great. I feel that it is something everyone can enjoy.” One thing students can expect to see different in this year’s competition is the level of creativity. Each group creates a five to seven minute storyline based on a chosen theme, which they will be judged on. The categories include creativity, uniformity, execution, crowd enthusiasm, showmanship and vocal clarity. “I expect the teams to either go hard or go home,” said Buchanan. “The expectations are high.” When asked why students should attend Stomp Fest, ...
by Danielle Boyd | Oct 16, 2011 | News Slider
Lee C. Camp, professor of theology and ethics, this week released his second book,Who Is my Enemy, guiding Christians through the misconceptions of the Islamic Faith and self-contemplating questions of war and peace in a Christian society. Camp’s interest in this issue was sparked several years ago after a Lipscomb seminar on the “theological rationale for peaceful coexistence with people of other faith.” “I did this lecture…and the next day it was on the front page of the Tennessean,” Camp said. According to Dr. Camp, the front page article misquoted and mischaracterized his statements, which led to his deepening interest in the issue of the Islamic faith. “It stirred up all sorts of deep anger and name calling,” Camp said. “By the end of the day, I had heard from people from California to Manhattan to Tel Aviv to New Zealand.” Camp’s misquoted information in the Tennessean also caught the media’s attention from all over the world, which stirred conversation and public interest. “I was intrigued with the anger and fear, especially towards Muslims that came out in that experience,” said Camp. As a result, he began to research, travel and learn more about the Islamic faith in order to compare the Christian and Islamic traditions in the realm of thinking about war and peacemaking. “The methodology behind this book is: seek first to understand and then to be understood,” Camp said. This concept is an old prayer tribute to Saint Francis, Camp said, that sets the undertone for the book as Christians began to contemplate on the idea of the Islamic faith. Instead of becoming defensive or fearful to the...
by Danielle Boyd | Oct 8, 2011 | News Slider
This week, Professor Stephen A. Greyser was the honorary recipient of Lipscomb’s MediaMasters award presented by the Department of Communication and Journalism. Mr. Greyser, is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration (Marketing and Communications) Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he specializes in brand marketing, advertising and corporate communications, sports management, and non-profit management. He said his interest in marketing and advertising sparked at an early age after completing work with an advertising agency. “I was still just a high school senior,” Greyser said. “I had a relationship that developed totally coincidentally with an organization that turned out to be an advertising agency, so I was engaged in broadcasting and went on to producing.” “Then, I decided to study more seriously about those topics and eventually wrote my dissertation…and took a lot of courses for my master’s and doctorate,” he said. Greyser has been active in organizations in the marketing field, serving as a national director of the American Marketing Association and chairman of its publication, on the advisory council of the Association for Consumer Research and as former president and chairman of the American Academy of Advertising. Greyser is a man of many accomplishments, skills and expertise in Corporate Reputation and Marketing Communications. On Wednesday, many students, faculty and colleagues gathered to hear Greyser’s speech on “Authenticity, Trust and Corporate Reputation.” “Reputation takes time to build and can have great value,” Greyser said, “and that value manifests itself in terms of attracting new customers and affirming the loyalty of existing customers. But reputation can be fragile…just ask Martha Stewart.” In his speech, Greyser outlined four elements of authenticity that are...
by Danielle Boyd | Oct 4, 2011 | News Slider
Brad McCoy, father of Daniel Colt McCoy (the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns), athletic director of Flippen Sports and published author of the book Home Field Advantage spoke to parents as a part of Lipscomb’s annual Family Weekend. Family Weekend is a popular time for many Lipscomb students to reunite with their parents and give their family an opportunity to visit the city and engage in fun-filled festivities for an entire weekend. McCoy was the guest speaker Friday night and spoke to parents about “the home field advantage” they can give to their children and the importance of being “intentional.” McCoy introduced the audience into the discussion by asking, “What does the word intentional mean in our lives? What is intentional in our lives, and how does that captivate us to do better?” Leaving the audience to contemplate, McCoy talked about personal anecdotes and real life experience as a father of three. In order to explain how to be more intentional, McCoy presented four cultural issues that prevent us from being the kind of people we want to be: First is our “lust for laziness.” Second is “the want to be popular instead of respected.” In reference to the meaning of this statement, McCoy referred to Rick Ashley’s tweet saying “I am tired of the approval addiction…Let God’s love push out the need to be applauded by the crowd.” Thirdly, “we have this culture that says we have no obligation to responsibility…because it is easy to quit things.” Fourth, is “our fear of failure.” McCoy referenced a tweet from well known Christian author Max Lucado, saying “Fear should not...
