[NG33]

I grew up 2.5 hours from Liberty and had never even heard of it until I was a sophomore at Coastal.

+1 I didn't even look at LU until my dad saw a commercial for it a few months before I graduated high school

[Sly Fox]

After the Old Time Gospel Hour faded away, the school lost its primary marketing tool. It has taken awhile to develop new avenues and frankly I have different ideas of how to best reach out to the students. But nobody is asking me.



But it is true that we do need to find additional ways to get word out. Even most LU alumni have no idea about the all amazing developments in recent years on campus unless they are on the Liberty Journal address list. Texas used to be a Liberty hotbed two decades ago producing one of the largest numbers of students on campus. Sadly outside of our hoops programs, the Texan contingent (and anything west of the Appalachians) is not producing as many students as the Mid-Atlantic region.

As for attempts at a retraction, I think there are better ways to use time. Fishwraps will take stories from anyone with a word processor on their laptop these days (declining staff size & budget with a larger news hole). I would guess the writer of that story is a freelancer who could care less about the accuracy of his story. He simply used the paper as an outlet for his attack. I would think a letter to the editor in response from someone at LU would be better use of time and get more play than a retraction that will be hidden in small type in the print edition that nobody reads anymore.

[Hold My Own]

I would think a letter to the editor in response from someone at LU would be better use of time and get more play than a retraction that will be hidden in small type in the print edition that nobody reads anymore.

This is being discussed as well. Chaplain Keith is the one that originally made the attempt to have the article corrected, he then notified Liberty of the error and attempt to correct it.

[4everfsu]

I only found out about LBC thru the old time gospel hour, so as said Sly said once that show went away, LU has to let kids know somehow about a unique Christian University.

I rather have LU gets out the info about what our school is and stands for, if not the liberal media will and we know we can count on them for the truth, cough cough.

[From the class of 09]

Lets here those great ideas Sly we know we have some LU Marketing people around here.

[Sly Fox]

By the way, here is the accompanying article that went with the attack on LBTS ...

Military chaplains are faith mismatch for personnel they serve

BY TIM TOWNSEND ttownsend@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8221 | Posted: Sunday, January 9, 2011 12:05 am


January 7, 2011 - Air Force Capt. Mike Carey, a chaplain at Scott AFB, works in his office preparing for his final Sunday sermon before deploying for Afghanistan. Carey will preach from 2 Corinthians 5:20 - "We are ambassadors for Christ". Behind Carey hangs a chaplain's flag, a gift from a friend who is an Army chaplain. Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com

In the military, the chaplain serves as both a religious leader and a listener - ideally one who can assist military personnel of all faiths. A frequent refrain among chaplains is "chaplain to all, pastor to some."

But according to Department of Defense data, the nation's corps of chaplains leans heavily toward evangelical Christianity, failing to mirror the military it serves.

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[flamehunter]

A lot of non-evangelical denominations and other religions are not nearly as supportive of the military as evangelicals and therefore probably do not want anything to do with being chaplains. The numbers make sense to me. After all the chaplains are all volunteer as well.

[olldflame]

Almost the whole disparity is in 2 categories. A total of 48% of the troops are listed as either no preference/other or non-denominational christians. Not at all surprising. Now, you tell me.............. where do you find chaplains to fit that. I have to question the 10% figure of no preference/other chaplains, but I guess there are some who are muslim, buddist, etc. The whole thing stinks of being contrived. The last thing our troops need is a chaplaincy full of namby-pambys who aren't sure what they believe.

[alum82]

I'm sorry. I just do not believe that only 3% of members of the military are Southern Baptist, Pentecostal or members of a church in the National Association of Evangelicals. The percentages should be much closer to the % of the general population. This chart is suspect in my opinion.