Sewanee News

The conference includes presentations on the economies of China and India, Taoist mediation and Tai Chi.

"Lasting Love" will be the topic for Dr. Dwight Kilbourne at the 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. sanctuary services on Sunday, at First-Centenary United Medthodist Church, 918 McCallie Ave.

The annual Women of St. Timothy's annual retreat will be Feb. 17-19 at the St. Mary's Conference Center in Sewanee.

The conference includes presentations on the economies of China and India, Taoist mediation, and Tai Chi.

Last week, Tennessee State Sen. Andy Berke and Rep. Mike McDonald filed a bill with the Tennessee Legislature to ban surface mining on the Sewanee coal seam, the most toxic coal seam east of the Mississippi River.

Even before President Barack Obama announced plans last month to push colleges to improve affordability, a number of schools beat him to the punch by lowering tuition and helping students graduate in fewer semesters.

Amy-Jill Levine, a professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tenn., has written a book that she hopes will make the New Testament accessible to Jews while also teaching Christians about their Jewish roots.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sometime in the next few weeks, Rabbi Kliel Rose of West End Synagogue in Nashville hopes to pick up a copy of the New Testament and learn a little more about Jesus.

A man was found dead late Friday in the yard of his Bishop Street home in Jackson's first homicide... Dr.

Rose, like many Jews, has viewed the Christian scriptures with some suspicion in the past.

The University of the South in Sewanee announced this year that it was lowering its tuition.

According to the College Board and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, published tuition and fees at private nonprofit colleges and universities this year showed increases in the mid-four-percent range for the third consecutive year.