University Hosts Gospel, Monks and Authors

Gospel choir rehearsals begin Thursday
 
BLUFFTON, Ohio—Rehearsals for the Bluffton community gospel choir begin Thursday, Sept. 2, in the Gilliom Room of Bluffton University’s Mosiman Hall. The newly formed group, which is open to community members as well as university faculty, staff and students, will practice from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday evenings.
 
Dr. Crystal Sellers, an assistant professor of music at Bluffton, is directing the choir, which will make its public debut Nov. 13 at a Celebration of Gospel concert in Yoder Recital Hall on campus.
 
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Tibetan monks to visit Bluffton University
 
BLUFFTON, Ohio—A group of 12 Buddhist monks from Gaden Shartse Monastery in Tibet will be on the Bluffton University campus Tuesday, Sept. 7. The monks will give a sand painting demonstration from 9:30-11 a.m. in the drawing studio of Sauder Fine Arts Building, then visit the Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center until 11:30 a.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

Author Haw to help welcome Bluffton class of 2014

BLUFFTON, Ohio—Christopher Haw, co-author of the 2008 book Jesus for President, will be the featured speaker Tuesday, Aug. 31, as Bluffton University welcomes the class of 2014 to campus at its annual opening convocation. With faculty in regalia looking on, about 270 new first-year and transfer students will be introduced during the ceremony, which begins at 10:45 a.m. in Founders Hall.
Haw’s presentation will launch Bluffton’s 2010-11 civic engagement theme, “Living with Enough: Responding to Global Poverty.” Each year, the university focuses on a significant contemporary issue that is related to its mission and becomes the subject of cross-disciplinary exploration.
An adjunct professor of religious studies at Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa., Haw is also a carpenter, potter, painter and theologian. He and Shane Claiborne wrote Jesus for President, which aimed to awaken the Christian political imagination by looking at Christianity and empire and thinking creatively about fundamental issues of faith and allegiance.