The Associated Baptist Press covered Mercer’s recent conference, “Caring for Creation: A Scientific and Theological Response.” The story focused on the presentations by Dr. David Gushee, Mercer’s Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Jonathan Merritt, author of the forthcoming book Green Like God, and their talks on swaying the evangelical Christian community to act in the care of God’s creation.
To read the story, go>.
To read Mercer’s story on the event, go>.
Mercer’s groundbreaking conference on faith, science and the environment, “Caring for Creation: A Scientific and Theological Response,” begins Oct. 29, and concludes Oct. 31 with a green day of service. The conference, and its topic, caring for God’s Creation, are drawing a lot of buzz ahead of the event. In addition to stories in the 11th Hour Newspaper and The Cluster, a number of media outlets have picked up on it this week.
Event organizer and Mercer student Kathryn Doornbos wrote an op-ed for The Macon Telegraph on Sunday, Oct. 25, to read it go>.
Conference plenary speaker and Mercer Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics Dr. David Gushee wrote an op-ed on Creation care for the Associated Baptist Press, to read it go>.
The Oct. 29 edition of The Macon Telegraph also featured a story about the event, to read it go>.
Doornbos was also interviewed by the WMGT 41 TV in Macon Oct. 29, to view the the interview, go>.
Mercer’s fall convocation, an annual tradition welcoming new and returning students to campus in Macon, garnered print and television coverage as the University kicked off the new year. The Macon Telegraph, 41 WMGT TV and Fox 24 TV were all on hand for the event.
To view a slideshow from Macon.com, go>.
Mercer’s Macon Commencement - which included 490 graduates of the College of Liberal Arts, School of Engineering, Stetson School of Business and Economics, Tift College of Education and Townsend School of Music - drew a capacity crowd of more than 2,700 family and well-wishers to the University Center. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue delivered the commencement address and urged graduates to seek out new ways to serve others. Among the media outlets that covered the event were The Macon Telegraph, 13 WMAZ TV and Fox 24 TV.
To read the story in The Tegraph, go>.
To watch video on WMAZ, go>.
Senior Phillip Calderon launched his Mercer-focused laundry service this school year and has been cleaning up - in laundry and in business. Student Laundry 101 offers full service laundry to students and the business is doing well enough to garner the attention of Macon media, include The Macon Telegraph’s business section.
To read the story from May 1, go>.
Mercer’s new Four-Year Pledge for the incoming Macon undergraduates, which will begin in fall 2009, garnered regional and statewide coverage following the announcement on Feb. 16.
To read more about the Pledge, go>.
To read the story or watch video on 13 WMAZ in Macon, go>.
To read the story in the Macon Telegraph, go>.
The Atlanta Business Chronicle picked up the story and distributed it throughout the Bizjournals.com network. To read the Chronicle story, go>.
To read the Dalton Daily Citizen story, go>.
To read a blog post from Baptists Today editor John D. Pierce, go>.
The Associated Press also picked the story, distributing it to outlets throughout the South, including TV stations in Columbus, Atlanta and Chattanooga, Tenn., as well as the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Mercer’s Bear Bikes program, a free bike-loan program for students and faculty on the Macon campus, was featured in a story in The New York Times on Sunday, Oct. 19, about efforts at colleges across the country to develop a bike culture, moving away from cars to get around campus. Bear Bikes, which was founded last year on campus, has more than 60 bikes in its program.
To read the story, click here.
An emergency siren installed on the Macon campus was tested for the first time Wednesday. Fox 24 and WMGT-TV video cameras were on hand for the test.
WMGT’s Web site has a story on the test, click here to read it.
Fox 24’s Web site includes a story and video, click here to visit the site.
To read the Mercer news release about the test, click here.
