Trustees honor departing members, celebrate Lady Bulldogs’ Final Four run
September 5, 2025 - Union University trustees during their Sept. 4-5 meeting on the Union campus recognized the service of three men ending their board tenure and celebrated the success of the Lady Bulldogs basketball team. At a Sept. 4 dinner preceding their meeting, trustees thanked Gil Fletcher, Kylan Mann and Brian Taylor, each of whom is rotating off the Board of Trustees after serving for nine years. “We are blessed at Union University to have so many men and women willing to sacrifice their time and provide leadership to the university as trust... READ MORE
Janney to deliver Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lectures Oct. 6
September 5, 2025 - Caroline Janney, the John L. Nau III Professor of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, will be the speaker for the 28th annual Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lectures at Union University Oct. 6. Janney will deliver two lectures. Her first lecture, “When the Monuments Went Up: The Long Fight over Civil War Memory,” will begin at 2 p.m. in the Carl Grant Events Center. At 7:15 p.m., Janney will speak on “After Appomattox: Ending the Civil War” in G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel. Both lectures are free and open to the public.... READ MORE
Skrmetti to speak at Union’s Constitution Day lecture
September 4, 2025 - Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti will deliver Union University’s annual Constitution Day lecture Sept. 17 in the Carl Grant Events Center. Skrmetti began an eight-year term as attorney general in 2022. Prior to his current role, he served as chief counsel to Gov. Bill Lee and as chief deputy attorney general to his predecessor, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery. He earned degrees from George Washington University, the University of Oxford and Harvard Law School. Skrmetti will speak on “The American Consti... READ MORE
Pulaski man credits Union pharmacy students with saving his life after diabetes scare
August 28, 2025 - When Johnny Pruitte, of Pulaski, Tennessee, walked into the diabetes workshop led by Union University pharmacy professor Bethany Murphy and Union pharmacy students, he didn’t think much about it. He even chose to skip the free glucose test they offered. A year later, in the summer of 2024, Union students returned for another diabetes workshop. This time he decided to participate. He had learned about many of the warning signs of diabetes and had noticed a few symptoms pop up over the previous months. As an active 65-year-old, he kn... READ MORE
SBC President Pressley to Union students: ‘Learn to trust an all-controlling God’
August 27, 2025 - Clint Pressley, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, told Union University students Aug. 27 that the start of a new semester is the right time to reconsider one central truth: God’s sovereignty is trustworthy. Preaching from Exodus 11 in a chapel message, Pressley warned against viewing the chapter merely as ancient history. Instead, he said its lessons apply directly to the lives of students. The main point he wanted students to remember was, “Learn t... READ MORE
SBC President Pressley to preach in Union chapel Aug. 27
August 26, 2025 - Clint Pressley, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, will preach in chapel at Union University Aug. 27. A Charlotte native, Pressley joined Hickory Grove as a teenager before earning a Bachelor of Arts from Wofford College and a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He joined Hickory Grove in 1999 as senior associate pastor of preaching before going to Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, as senior pastor. Pressl... READ MORE
Pursue knowledge of God, Oliver urges Union students
August 25, 2025 - Knowing God is essential to how Christians live their lives, Union University President Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver said Aug. 22. “God is knowable,” Oliver said. “We can have knowledge of him. We can have saving knowledge. We can always increase in knowledge, even as we acknowledge that it will only be in eternity that we will fully know God.” Oliver spoke during the fall convocation held in G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel, focusing on article 2 of Union’s statement of faith. He emphasized the importance of a statement of faith because it no... READ MORE
Creating for the glory of God: Schumacher’s summer with Answers in Genesis
August 21, 2025 - Sadie Schumacher has always felt drawn to the creative process. “My greatest passion in life has always been art,” said Schumacher, a studio art major at Union University from North Canton, Ohio. “I am amazed at the creativity God has given humans — that I can create, with my own two hands, something that didn’t exist before.” This summer, Schumacher served as an exhibit artist through the Embark Internship Program with Answers in Genesis’ Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. She worked hands-on in exhibit design and fabrication... READ MORE
New book features sermons on Philippians by leading pastors and professors
August 21, 2025 - Union University Press has published a new book, an exposition of Philippians, containing sermons preached in select chapel services during the spring semester of 2024. Edited by Ray Van Neste and Justin Wainscott, “United in Jesus, United in Joy: Sermons on Philippians,” includes sermons from Brian Arnold, Andy Davis, Ken Lewis, Phil Newton, Justin Perry, Van Neste, Wainscott and Hershael York. Van Neste is vice president for university ministries and dean for Union’s School of Theology and Missions. Wainscott is associate dean an... READ MORE
Union PR major manages Bus Stop Café to fight childhood hunger
August 18, 2025 - Macie Smith, a public relations major from Manila, Arkansas, lives out Union’s mission to serve church and society. She has interned with a nonprofit consulting company, worked for the Hospitality Hub in Memphis, lived on campus as a summer RA and interned at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. This summer, she spent June working at Memphis Teacher Residency’s camp, and in July, she began a monthlong internship working as the Bus Stop Café manager for Jackson’s Regional Inter-Faith Association. “I have tried every year to do meani... READ MORE