Center-Sponsored First Mock Trial Team Receives “Spirit Award” Honorable Mention
On Friday, February 19, 2016, nine Olivet Nazarene University students traveled to Joliet, IL to participate in a two-day regional mock trial competition of the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA). Olivet’s mock trial team – known as the ONU Trial Tigers – was comprised, mainly, of History and Political Science majors and Legal Studies minors, some of whom are also members of the Law...
Read MoreStudents Represent Center-Olivet Partnership in Washington, D.C.
As part of Olivet’s Legal Studies program, students are selected each January to participate in a week-long Federal Seminar study trip to Washington, D.C. The seminar occurs in conjunction with the National Association of Evangelicals’ (NAE) Student Leadership Conference, which attracts students from several evangelical colleges and universities. During the conference, students attend...
Read MoreCenter Co-Sponsors Visit from Dr. Ben Carson
The Center, along with Freedom’s Journal Institute, was delighted to co-sponsor U.S. presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson as the featured speaker at Olivet Nazarene University’s chapel service on October 1. Carson told a capacity crowd at Olivet’s Centennial Chapel that the United States was “a place of dreams” for him as he overcame poverty, pursued higher education, and rose to the...
Read MoreCenter Celebrates Constitutional Heritage & Introduces New Initiatives
American founder and legal scholar, James Wilson, once wrote that “Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.” Similarly, famous American founder, Thomas Jefferson, taught that “An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic.” In that spirit, the Center for Law and Culture...
Read MoreInspiring Virtuous Leadership in 2015: Center Sponsors Twelfth Institute
Fifteen talented students, representing seven institutions, gathered at Olivet Nazarene University for two weeks in May for the Center’s twelfth Law, Justice, and Culture Institute. The institutions represented included three new schools – Eastern Nazarene College, South Dakota State University, and the United States Military Academy – as well as Judson University, Olivet Nazarene...
Read MoreSix New CCCU Institutions Enter Partnership with the Center
Six new Council for Christian Colleges & Universities institutions have entered into agreement with the Center for Law and Culture, to officially sponsor and endorse the Law, Justice and Culture Institute: Eastern Nazarene College, Nazarene Bible College, Point Loma Nazarene University, Regent University, Southern Nazarene University, and Trevecca Nazarene University. These institutions...
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