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Cornerstone University hosts a special Champions of Character Fall Pre-Season “Kick-Off” on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in the Hansen Athletic Center featuring Misty May-Treanor.

Cornerstone has invited freshman, junior varsity and varsity volleyball programs from all 51 participating schools of the OK-Conference.

The free event is also open to the entire community.

“As we continue our commitment to the OK-Conference, we believe this will be an event that will...

Grand Rapids Theological Seminary is expanding.

With five cohorts in four cities, the urban ministry leadership education program has led to an increased need for Bible faculty.

Wendy Widder, a GRTS graduate (M.Div., ‘04) in a doctoral program at the University Wisconsin at Madison, will help to fill the need. She will teach Old Testament.

 “We have a lot of confidence in her capability, and this is a great opportunity for her continued development,” said John Verberkmoes, vice president and academic dean. “In addition, GRTS faculty and administration recognize our need to become more diverse (gender and race/ethnicity), and this is an opportunity to make some progress in this important area.”

Widder will be the seminary’s first full-time female faculty member in Bible. She will teach...

Cornerstone University alumni, Derek Scott (B.S. '07), was hired as Liberty University’s men’s distance coach for Cross Country.

Scott, who was the 1500 meter NAIA National Champion in 2007 and a ten-time All-American for the Golden Eagles, joins the Flames’ coaching staff after being interviewed earlier this week.

“I’m excited to start working with the guys,” said Scott.

Speaking of the 2010 Cross Country team Derek said, “We’re good with our top four, and we’re looking for who will be our fifth man.”

The Flames return four All-Conference runners from their 2009 Big South Conference Championship team, including 2009 All-American Evans Kigen and the 2009 NCAA National Champion, Sam Chelanga.

“What a great way for Derek to...

High school students from across the state learned from professional journalists and experienced hands-on journalism this summer at the 8th annual Cornerstone Journalism Institute (CJI).

Students learned from and worked with journalists such as Russ Pulliam, columnist and editor of the Indianapolis Starr; Dave Murray, education reporter for The Grand Rapids Press; Emily Zoladz, photojournalist for The Grand Rapids Press; and Bob Becker, retired sports editor of The Grand Rapids Press.

"The students are put into a realistic situation where they're responsible for creating the story and visual content for a newspaper, all inside a week that includes training on interviewing, reporting and basic photography skills," said Alan Blanchard, CJI director and associate professor of journalism at Cornerstone. "Also, students get an opportunity to...

Cornerstone partnered with Echo the Story and Imago Media to present Merge, a student conference, on campus the last week of June.

“[Merge is] a week long student conference where – through creative storytelling, art and media, discussion, learning stations and interactive experiences – Merge inspires high school students to merge with God's story, merge with God's way of life, and merge with God's mission,” said Don Perini, associate professor of youth ministry and creativity, who acted as the liaison between Cornerstone and Merge.

The partnership was the result of a task force that was created to see how Cornerstone could engage with local and regional churches, Perini said.

“Merge had incredible success in the past with this conference...