Arkansas circuit judge and pastor Wendell L. Griffen will speak at University of the Ozarks at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, in the Rogers Conference Center. The event was originally scheduled for February but was postponed because of illness. Griffen’s talk is titled, “Prophetic Hope, Religious Nationalism, and the Fate of Democracy in the 21st […]
Christina Paoli is excited about her major. The junior Religion major from Maumelle recently returned from a weekend in Dallas attending the 2012 Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Conference, and she had a lot to say about it. "A lot of the people there were actually scholars and professors from different universities," she said, "but […]
Clarksville, Ark. — Publishing is a part of the academic life, and in their quest for subjects on which to devote their energies, professors often find unique and little-known areas of inquiry for their books. Dr. David Daily’s book, “Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade Against John Collier,” describes the troubled […]
Clarksville, Ark. — Dustin James, a senior religion and philosophy major from Wickes, Ark., has had a paper accepted by the 2010 Southwest Commission on Religious Studies (SWCRS), scheduled for March in Texas. James’ paper is titled, “Moral and Cultic Law in Leviticus: A Dubious Distinction in the Debate over Homosexuality,” and stems from the […]
Clarksville, Ark. ---Dr. David Daily, assistant professor of religion at University of the Ozarks, is the author of a recently published book titled, Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade Against John Collier. Published by the University of Arizona Press, the book is about an intensely personal and high-stakes battle for control […]