Vine St will close from noon(ish) on Wednesday, November 27 for The After Blaze tent setup. *** Nov. 27 5:30 PM HOME JV/V Girls Basketball vs Benjamin Logan
An 18-point first half deficit was too much to overcome as the Bluffton University women had their two-game winning streak snapped at Hanover College on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. The Panthers improved to 11-8 overall and 9-3 in the Heartland Conference, while Bluffton dropped to 11-8 and 7-5 in the HCAC.
Editor’s note: Chay Reigle was among 13 Bluffton University students who studied in Northern Ireland during fall semester 2013. The junior from Bluffton reflects on his experience here.
In some ways, my time in Northern Ireland wasn’t any different than my life here in Bluffton: I attended class, spent time with friends and churned out essays with crossed fingers and a weary mind. In either place, I slept way too little and ate way too many fried foods. In a broad view, the average day here and there is nearly identical.
Barbara Freeman is a victim of human trafficking, she told a Bluffton University audience Jan. 23. And, after decades of drug abuse and prostitution, she dedicated her life to rescuing others from sexual exploitation.
Freeman, 42, is drug and alcohol free today. She serves as a motivational speaker, hoping to inspire those affected by sex trafficking to seek help.
“It’s only one hit away, one drink away, to end up at the wrong place at the wrong time,” she said during a Bluffton chapel service.
Award-winning Mennonite poet Jean Janzen will return to Bluffton to read from her work at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in the Musselman Library Reading Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Janzen’s books include “Paper House,” “Piano in the Vineyard,” “Tasting the Dust” and “Snake in the Parsonage”—all poems—as well as “Entering the Wild: Essays on Faith and Writing.” Her work has also appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, Christian Century, Image, and many other magazines and anthologies.
Dr. Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, moderator of Mennonite Church USA, will share “Mi Camino, Nuestra Historia (My Road, Our History)” in a Bluffton University forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, in Founders Hall.
Albrecht, also director of field education at Lancaster (Pa.) Theological Seminary, will relate her childhood journey from her native Puerto Rico to the United States. Like other Latino/Latina immigrants, she experienced rejection, oppression and pressures to assimilate in the U.S.
