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Don't forget: A does not equal B

While visiting Facebook the other day, I stumbled across a message from my good friend Celeste perrino Walker, who had recently written an article for Liberty magazine. In it, she makes reference to the continuing sentiment by some well-intentioned Christians who get upset because the Ten Commandments are removed from city halls or because prayer is removed from a public event. Here’s an excerpt of what she says about it: “Regardless, at the heart of all such disagreements is the issue of separation of church and state, an issue that some do not seem to fully grasp and some do not agree with. But the most obvious question, surely, is: Why do we want the government’s fingers in our religious pie? And the answer, quite simply, is that we are far enough removed to forget what the government does to religious pie. We have forgotten the terrible sacrifices many people have made in the name of religious freedom. And we would do well to remember.”

Nursing faculty present at Geneva conference

Dr. Bonnie Gnadt presented at an international conference in Geneva, Switzerland this summer.
Two nursing professors from Southwestern Adventist University made presentations at the Global Conference on Health and Lifestyle held in Geneva, Switzerland on July 6-11. Drs. Catherine Turner and Bonnie Gnadt presented at the international conference, which was hosted by the General Conference Health Ministries Department and the World Health Organization, which is headquartered in Geneva. The conference offered 20 tracks and seminars and over 250 presentations by 140 international specialists. According to the conference website, the meetings provided "evidence-based information, working models, and target strategies to meet the pressing needs of your community for improved health and spiritual care."

Christianity Today editor to speak Friday night

David Neff, editor of Christianity Today, will speak for the Saxon Lecture series this Friday night.
Southwestern’s annual Saxon Lecture Series will feature David Neff, editor of Christianity Today magazine on Friday, March 27. One of the most influential voices in American religious life, Neff will speak on the topic,"Preaching the Second Coming and Preserving the Environment." The editor of Christianity Today, Neff will examine the charge that many Christians don’t care for the environment precisely because they are so focused on end times. Is it true, Neff asks, that conservative Christians believe that "if God is going to come and destroy all this anyway," there is no point in preserving it? His presentation will be in the Keene Seventh-day Adventist Church at 8 p.m. A reception in the Meadows Gallery will follow the lecture.

Deadline is Thursday for SWAU writing contest

Time is running out for students interested in submitting to the First Annual Creative Writing Contest on the Southwestern Adventist University campus. Southwestern Adventist University’s student creative writing group, the Rough Writers, in conjunction with the Write Spot writing center, is sponsoring the contest for all SWAU students. The contest will offer a $50 cash prize for the first-place winner in each of four categories as well as a $100 overall grand prize. All Southwestern students are encouraged to enter an original, unpublished work under the categories of short stories, poetry, essays, and screenplays. There is a limit of two entries per category per student.

Regrettably, racism is not dead

About a week ago, my wife and I watched the morning news as Barack Obama and his wife were invited to the White House for his first official visit as president-elect. I remember turning to my wife and saying, “I wonder how long it will be before editorial cartoons will be making fun of him.” Editorial cartoons go back centuries, and it’s a rite of passage for presidents to be lampooned by the press. But we are in a new situation, the first time someone other than a Caucasian will be inaugurated as President of the United States of America. It’s a historic moment. My concern is that criticism of Barack Obama’s four years as President of the United States be leveled at Obama the man, rather than Obama, the (fill in the blank).

Ongoing election coverage on 88.3 KJCR

Carson Gibbons announces election returns from Keene and Johnson County while Bob Mendenhall prepares more election news from state and national sources. SWAU's broadcast journalism class is working with 88.3 KJCR on a live presentation of election returns, the only live coverage of the election in Johnson County. You can hear their live broadcast by tuning to 88.3 KJCR or catching them online at http://www.kjcr.fm.

SWAU names new director of PR, marketing

Jessica Lozano is SWAU's new director of PR and marketing.
Jessica Lozano has been named by Southwestern Adventist University as its new director of public relations and marketing. The position became open when David Phillips assumed teaching duties in the school’s business administration department this semester. Previously Lozano had served as design manager for the SWAU marketing department for the past year. Originally from Arkansas, Lozano grew up Jessica Clegg, attending Ozark Academy and then Southwestern. Her parents are Marlin and Marice Clegg of Gentry, Arkansas. Two siblings, Travis Clegg and Jenna Clegg Laue, graduated from SWAU in ’02 and ’06, respectively.

Creation debate themes Saxon series opener

Dr. Art Chadwick examines a dinosaur bone being unearthed at the Dino-Dig hosted by SWAU in Wyoming this summer.
Southwestern Adventist University’s Saxon Lecture Series for the 2008-09 season kicks off Saturday, November 15 featuring a speaker with both local and national recognition. Dr. Art Chadwick, professor of biology and geology at SWAU, will address the topic "Paradigms Lost? New Questions about Dinosaurs." His presentation will be held in Wharton Auditorium beginning at 4 p.m. and is free to the public.

Pray for me. I'm an Oakland Raiders fan.

I was not even a teenager when my sister’s husband took me to my first professional football game. Growing up in northern California, you were either a 49ers fan or a Raiders fan, and I became a Raiders fan early. Since that first game in the 1960s (“Daryl Lamonica to Warren Wells…touchdown!”) I have followed the Raiders through good times (four Super Bowls) and bad (losing badly in the last Super Bowl, and from that point on). I have stuck with them through thick and thin. My wife watches me watching them lose another game, and she says (often): “I think you need to pick another team.”

SWAU honors faculty for years of service

Honored for years of service at SWAU on August 15 were (back row, from left): Jeanne Mizher, 15 years; Art Chadwick, 25 years; Ellis Hainey, 20 years; Bev Mendenhall, 25 years; Andy Woolley, 30 years. Front row, from left: Randy Chastain, 20 years; Glen Robinson, 10 years; John Boyd, 5 years; Randy Gilliam, 10 years. Not pictured: Mara Contreras, Karla Lopez, and Rachel Durichek, five years; Darla and Greg Sullivan, Lara Yanez and Edna Yanez-Perez, 10 years; Extra Mile Award recipients Patty Norwood and Daryl Thomas.
Fifteen faculty and staff at Southwestern Adventist University were honored for years of service and two were honored for going the extra mile at the school’s annual Service Awards Banquet on Friday, August 15. Patty Norwood, assistant vice president for student financial services, and Daryl Thomas, professor and chair of the computer science department at SWAU, received special recognition for going the extra mile in service to the school and its students.