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No “Doubt” about it
John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt, A Parable” is the sort of play that Furman theatre arts professor Rhett Bryson likes best—one that doesn’t take sides. Bryson is directing the drama about a clash of wills between...
Continue Reading20 questions with President Smolla
You want to know more about Furman president Rod Smolla? Where he was born? His major in college? His favorite type of music? His least favorite chore? You’ll learn all that and more in a...
Continue ReadingSowing the seeds for a sustainable future
by Erikah Haavie, Contributing Writer It didn’t take George Flowers long to realize his connection to the outdoors. Some of his favorite memories of his middle school years were the weekends he spent fishing and...
Continue ReadingSaving baby Jordan
Nancy ’02 and Shelvis Smith-Mather ’02 were doing peace-building ministry work in South Sudan late last year when the couple’s first child was born seven weeks early. In a rural and conflict-filled area with no...
Continue ReadingStory by David Wright inspires filmmaker
“Remember, No Thinking,” a story by Furman writing instructor David A. Wright, will be used in a short film by Lexington filmmaker John Daniel Fisher. Wright’s story was the winner of the 2011 South Carolina...
Continue ReadingFreedom Reexamined
When Reagan Thompson and Lena Pringle were sitting in their high school geometry class in Lancaster, S.C., they had no idea just how important education was to their teacher, Melina Oueini. But when the Furman...
Continue ReadingBritt authors book about Aladura Church
Furman University Asian studies and religion professor Samuel Irving Britt has authored a book about the Liberian Aladura Church. The Children of Salvation: Ritual Struggle in a Liberian Aladura Church offers an understanding of Liberian spirituality,...
Continue ReadingFurman lands Red Raider standout
Adam Miller, a senior who led the Greenville High Red Raiders in scoring last year, has accepted a Furman Rugby Scholarship and will enroll at the university this fall. Miller has started every match for...
Continue ReadingSymphony Orchestra to perform Feb. 15
The Furman Symphony Orchestra will present its Concerto Concert Friday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus. Part of the music department’s Sound Quality Concert Series, the performance is conducted by Thomas...
Continue ReadingWalking away from ‘The Bachelor’
Not many “Bachelor” contestants would make their way onto the show, barely spend one night with the star and his other female suitors, and then decide to leave. But that is pretty much what happened...
Continue Reading40 years of Roe v. Wade
The number of abortions performed in America has been on the decline for a generation. Yet in few states has the trend been more dramatic in recent years than in Kansas, a change driven by...
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