Amanda Trent: Shaping justice with faith and service

Amanda Trent: Shaping justice with faith and service

AT LIBERTY University’s (LU) Helms School of Government, Amanda K. Trent’s office buzzes with activity. Criminal justice students filter in and out, seeking guidance on internships, future employment, and volunteer opportunities. It’s a far cry but a short step from...
Zach and Bryanna Boyd: Collaborating and crafting wonder

Zach and Bryanna Boyd: Collaborating and crafting wonder

THE SUN peers down from the blue summer sky through a giant canopy of green. Torbee returns her gaze from the forest floor, closing her bag and tucking away the next item on her scavenger hunt list — a pine cone! Young viewers follow Torbee in her denim overalls and...
Kelli and Tim Birchfield: Second love exists

Kelli and Tim Birchfield: Second love exists

The depression. The heartache. The negative thoughts. They hung over a divorced Kelli Hess like a neverending fog, replaying in her mind every day like a song on repeat. No escape existed. One man took her greatest joy away, so she swore she would never trust a man...
A Legacy of Care: Honoring Lives Through Compassion

A Legacy of Care: Honoring Lives Through Compassion

SHE PLUNGED her hands into the water, the towering suds transporting her to the old ladder-back chair pulled up to the kitchen sink at her mama’s side. One dish at a time, in no hurry, she washed them, turning them this way and that before carefully dipping them into...