As part of its 100th birthday celebration this year, the Macon Rotary Club has identified Mercer On Mission's Vietnam Prosthetics Program as its key service project for 2014.
I’m afraid that people, especially women (myself included), see crying as a weakness and respond in embarrassment when tears overcome their resolve. But why should we be ashamed of how God made us? After all, our bodies are 50-65% water; the Creator formed us to be emotional, physical, and spiritual beings; and Jesus himself wept. And if Jesus is both human and divine, doesn’t that mean that God cries too?
Like many a single Christian sister before me, I irrationally concluded that God had called me to be a female Paul, blessed with the gift of singleness. My assumption was further confirmed when I spent Christmas break watching BBC miniseries with my cat.The time is now for the Christian community to start engaging singleness beyond “Dating and Marriage” seminars. I don’t have a magical solution, but seeing singles as more than spouses-in-training is a pretty good place to start.
Members of the Mercer University Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter will host the sixth annual Mercer University Build Faculty and Staff Benefit Luncheon on Wednesday, noon-1 p.m., in Penfield Hall.
We all need to cast stones. Not simply the pebble-sized expressions of outrage that we share on Facebook and Twitter, but the deadly kind, shaped smooth and aimed perfectly to bring down giants.
Sermon preached by Chanequa Walker-Barnes February 18, 2014, at McAfee School of Theology.
Mercer University welcomed President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Dennis P. Lockhart to the Macon campus on Wednesday for a morning lecture to students, faculty and staff in the Medical School Auditorium and a VIP luncheon and lecture at the Homer and Ruth Drake Field House.
The Grand Opera House will host a staged reading of the play "Combustible/Burn," directed by Scot Mann, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m., as the latest event during the 2013-14 academic year to be organized under the theme "Looking Back & Moving Forward: Celebrating a Half-Century of Integration at Mercer University."
All of these expectations came true; however, McAfee also surprised me. The main thing that surprised me was the faculty.
Coming from a large school, I rarely spent time with my professors outside of the classroom. If I did, it was to meet about academic advising or a paper topic. I had never experienced professors that were so accessible and willing to spend time with students outside of the classroom.
Mercer University's chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, has been named a Sigma Xi Chapter of Excellence for 2013, recognition that is bestowed to only the top two to three percent of its 520 chapters in North America and around the world.
Two weeks ago, Atlanta fell apart after 2 inches of snow. Thousands of cars trapped on interstates, 900+ wrecks within hours of each other forced us out of our comfort zone to help others in need.
Read this article to see the lessons learned.
