Archive for May 2021

By Dr. Elizabeth Clarke, Pineville, LA (LCU News) – Perhaps for the first time ever, a speaker quoted from the mediocre movie “High School Musical 3” in a college commencement address. In his challenge to the 2021 graduating class at Louisiana Christian University Saturday, Student Government Association President Terrell Phillips told the graduates to “always…

By Dr. Elizabeth Clarke, When Mary Robinson came to Louisiana Christian University in 2016, she had already experienced a full lifetime of professional and personal accomplishments—as a teacher, an ordained minister, a mother and grandmother—the Peabody Montessori elementary teacher was happy with the challenges God had placed before her. But the Lord knew Mary was…

Students from Class of 2020 also recognized U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson told the Louisiana Christian University Class of 2021 graduates that there were “only a handful of institutions in America where God could be honored” the way he was at the Louisiana Baptist Convention college’s 166th Commencement Saturday at the Rapides Coliseum. In his commencement…

Class of 2020 invited to participate after COVID sidelined their ceremony By Dr. Elizabeth Clarke, Pineville, LA (LCU News) – Louisiana Christian University will confer degrees on 244 graduates Saturday, May 8 at 10 a.m. at the Rapides Parish Coliseum in Alexandria. One-hundred eighty undergraduates and 64 graduate students from December and May will receive…

By Dr. Elizabeth Clarke, Pineville, LA (LCU News) — Louisiana Christian University will unveil a historical marker in honor of the late two-time governor of the State of Louisiana, Jimmie Davis, in a public ceremony May 7. The musician-turned-politician, Davis served as the governor from 1944-1948 and again from 1960-1964. Perhaps his most lasting legacy,…