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Getting Started Weekend – Move In

Witness freshman's first reaction to being on campus in this video by Erica Zichi.    

“Around the Third Quadrant” (Part 4)

Under the Brim presents..."Around the Third Quadrant" Part 3. For more Under the Brim Comics, look back on Brian's series: Around the Third Quadrant Part 3 Additional series Brian McCray is a senior studio art major and an arts & entertainment writer for Cedars. He enjoys drawing, writing, watching movies and composing short bios of himself.

“Around the Third Quadrant” (Part 3)

Under the Brim presents..."Around the Third Quadrant" Part 3. For more Under the Brim Comics, look back on Brian's series: Around the Third Quadrant Part 2 Additional series Brian McCray is a senior studio art major and an arts & entertainment writer for Cedars. He enjoys drawing, writing, watching movies and composing short bios of himself.

Cedarville Trustees Approve Concealed Carry

Faculty, staff and trustees will be 1st on an Ohio college campus with permission to carry a handgun. Written by Cedars Staff Cedarville University's board of trustees approved a new concealed carry policy at its most recent meeting. The policy, a first among Ohio colleges, “authorizes the President to grant permission to faculty, staff, and trustees with concealed carry licenses to carry a concealed handgun on campus under approved terms and/or conditions consist...

The Other Side of the Field

Missions perspectives from those who grew up overseas by Rebekah Erway and Emily Day For some students here at Cedarville, missions is more than just a concept or a future plan. These MKs, or missionary kids, and internationals have seen some of what the work of missionaries is like on the other side of the field. Growing up in the midst of missions gave them some insights about it. Some names and country names have been altered or withheld to protect those in secure locations. Abbie ...

GO Make Disciples

Learn how Global Outreach got started, how they are on mission today by Alexandria Hentschel and Paolo Carrion When Dr. Don Callan started his short-term missions program at Cedarville University 46 years ago, then called Missions Involvement Service (MIS), he was greeted with mixed responses. “I’ve had a couple pastors buy me lunch to chew me out,” Callan said. These pastors thought that the ministry was “stealing” money from full-time missionaries. What Callan knew, however, ...

Missions v. Ministry

Cedars explores the debate discussing the difference between missions and ministry by Callahan Jones It was this instruction from Jesus, “The Great Commission,” that sent Christianity out across the globe and it is the command that drives mission efforts today. Over the last several decades, there has been a shift in the church’s overall approach to missions. Partially kick-started with the coining of the term “10/40 Window” by Christian missionary strategist Luis Bush in ...

Athletes for Christ

Cedarville’s basketball team has been going to the mission field since 1971 by Josh Burris and Tim Miller The Cedarville men’s basketball team has been going on mission trips since the summer of 1971 when Dr. Don Callan was the team’s head coach. The idea for the Cedarville basketball mission trips came from Callan and retired Lt. Gen. Loren Reno, who was playing at the time. Callan went on a basketball mission trip to Taiwan when he was a player at Taylor University. Reno, Cedarvi...

In Search of Identity

by Adam Pittman Who are you? What constitutes your sense of self? What gives you purpose and meaning? I have spent this past academic year thinking on these questions, and even before this year these questions were at the heart of seemingly every facet of my life. We live, above all else, in a culture founded on tastes that define identity — music, fashion, literature, films, hobbies, food. It is as if we can craft people based on their likes and dislikes. The danger of this identity ...