Category: News
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Blair, pastor and former Marine, to give chapel address Feb. 22
By Elinor Keck, student news writer, Office of University Communications CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Pastor Brandon Blair, senior pastor of Langston Baptist Church in Conway, S.C., will come to Campbellsville University to speak at the university’s chapel service Wednesday, Feb. 22, in Ransdell Chapel, 401 N. Hoskins Ave., Campbellsville. Blair is a graduate of Fruitland Baptist…
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Campbellsville University achieves record dual credit enrollment
By Gerard Flanagan, news writer and photographer, Office of University Communications CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Campbellsville University dual credit achieved record enrollment for the fall 2022 semester, according to recent data from the university. For the semester, Campbellsville University has a total of 3,699 students enrolled in dual credit courses. “Campbellsville University has been blessed with…
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Dr. Ming Wang urges us to seek common ground in chapel address
By Simon Baker, student news writer, Office of University Communications CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky– During his college career, Dr. Ming Wang had a meeting with a Harvard professor. That meeting changed his life, leading him to have a relationship with Christ. Wang discussed his meeting with that professor and his mission to find common ground in his…
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Joan McKinney retires from Campbellsville University
BY Kaitlyn Fowler, Central Kentucky News-Journal USED WITH PERMISSION After more than four decades, Joan McKinney has retired from Campbellsville University. Joan met her husband Stan when they worked as reporters at The Sentinel-News in Shelbyville, where they dated a year in 1979 and got married Feb. 10, 1980. The McKinneys then moved to Campbellsville…
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Rev. Matt Smyzer to speak at Black History Month chapel Feb. 15
By Elinor Keck, student news writer, Office of University Communications CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky – Rev. Matt Smyzer, pastor of Beargrass Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., and member of the Campbellsville University Board of Trustees, is set to speak at the university’s Black History Month chapel service at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 15, in Ransdell Chapel,…
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O’Neal, Early published in Baptist History & Heritage Society Journal
By Simon Baker, student news writer, Office of University Communications CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky, – Dr. Mike O’Neal, associate professor of theology at Campbellsville University and Dr. Joseph Early, professor of theology at Campbellsville University, recently had articles published in the Baptist History & Society Journal. O’Neal and Early’s journals in The Baptist History & Society Journal…
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Campbellsville University to present ‘Machinal’ Feb 23-26
By Elinor Keck, student news writer, Office of University Communications CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Campbellsville University’s Department of Theatre and Dance, Town Hall Productions and Heritage Children Services will present “Machinal” Feb. 23-26 in the Russ Mobley Theatre, 114 University Drive, Campbellsville. Show times are 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, Friday, Feb. 24 and Saturday Feb.…
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‘I’m here because I was pressing on,’ Smith says at Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel
Dr. Gerald Smith, professor of history at the University of Kentucky, led Campbellsville University faculty, staff, students and the public in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recently in Ransdell Chapel. Smith read from Philippians 3:13–14. “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are…
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National Civics Bee coming to Campbellsville University
By Victoria Cox, student intern, Office of University Communications CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — Essays, quizzes and more will be coming to Campbellsville University with the announcement of the Campbellsville/Taylor County Chamber of Commerce being selected as a National Civics Bee host. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the National Civics Bee is an annual…
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Dr. Ming Wang, director of Wang Vision Institute, to speak at Campbellsville University Feb. 8
By Simon Baker, student news writer, Office of University Communications CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky, – Dr. Ming Wang, a former atheist who grew up in Hangzhou, China, during the Cultural Revolution, knows a life without hope in Christ. Now, Wang will share his story at Campbellsville University’s chapel service at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Ransdell…