Life & Times - The Echo

‘Love on the Line’ event ushers fun connections

By Katie Siedenburg · Monday, Feb. 24, 2025

Taylor University and Indiana Wesleyan University students sought love across school lines this Valentine's Day in a game-show style event, “Love on the Line.”

24 Hours of Prayer inspires student engagement

By Ashton Boyer · Monday, Feb. 24, 2025

On Feb. 6, students experienced community and time of prayer through a 24 Hours of Prayer event. Starting at 7 a.m., students signed up for 30-minute time slots to pray for the student body, staff and faculty.

Hope in hardship: LeBlanc shares testimony

By Sadie Maples · Monday, Feb. 24, 2025

"Christianity isn’t for strong people,” said Ben LeBlanc after months in a wheelchair. “It’s for weak people.”

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Mental health resources bring fellowship

By Katie Siedenburg · Monday, Feb. 24, 2025

The Counseling Center’s spring semester group therapy meetings began last week, led by Kylene Kindred. One group will focus on anxiety and stress management and the other will focus on grief.

J-term, spring semester creates whiplash

By Anna Mitchell · Monday, Feb. 24, 2025

Culture shock, according to Cambridge Dictionary, is “a feeling of confusion felt by someone visiting a country or place that they do not know.”

Film department looks back fondly at time in Rupp, from gleaming new Horne

By Enoch Eicher · Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024

Taylor University’s film department has traded the familiar walls of Rupp Communication Arts Center for the state-of-the-art Horne Academic Center, ushering in a new chapter for faculty and students alike.

Students and faculty discuss responsible but generous giving

By Lauren Warner · Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024

According to the saying, it is better to give than receive. But does that adage still hold true for the typical college student who is running short on funds? According to Elizabeth Shatzer, a music education sophomore, the answer is yes.

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TU apartment leaders prepare students

By Katie Siedenburg · Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024

With a growing number of students opting for on-campus apartment housing, upperclassmen adjust the way they do “life together.”

Christmas liturgies give people the opportunity to remember

By Anna Mitchell · Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024

Hopefully, everyone is brushing their teeth.

PAX’s Rage Room gives students the chance to smash their stress

By Contessa Hussong · Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024

Christmas might preach peace and joy, but the end of semester stress and traveling troubles may leave some feeling more grinchy than graceful.

TU students start own businesses

By Bree Brunn · Monday, Nov. 18, 2024

From fresh haircuts to flawless nails and fitted clothes, Taylor students are turning their skills into a service.

Halls host Halloween open houses

By Katie Siedenburg · Monday, Nov. 18, 2024

Open houses on Taylor University’s campus are not typical home walk-throughs. These traditions take place in dormitories, are themed and provide entertainment to other students around campus. Recent ones were halloween themed providing a spooky way to spend late October.

New sensory chapel space serves students

By Katie Siedenburg · Monday, Nov. 18, 2024

The chapel office announced a new sensory-friendly chapel space where students can worship and engage in fellowship in a calmer environment than Rediger Auditorium.

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Students ART250C is open to all majors

By Annie Meldrum · Friday, Nov. 15, 2024

“There's just something grounding about putting our hands in clay,” Jeremie Riggleman, assistant professor of art at Taylor, said.

Cooking in community

By Sam Maurer · Monday, Nov. 11, 2024

When sophomore Grace Channell was 3 years old, she first started baking with her mom. By the time she was seven, she was already baking by herself.

Artifacts bring history to life

By Makenna McCord · Monday, Nov. 11, 2024

Clay tablets, cook books and foam mascot heads — all are a piece of Taylor history, preserved in the stacks of the archives.

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24@Taylor continues to captivate prospectives

By Enoch Eicher · Monday, Nov. 11, 2024

Every year, Taylor University pairs incoming students with current students for a full-day event called "24 at Taylor," which provides prospective students with an up-close peek at campus life.

Parlor Donuts offers gluten-free and vegan options

By Makenna McCord · Monday, Nov. 4, 2024

Taking a vacant spot on Muncie’s busy McGalliard Road, Parlor Donuts brings the simplicity and comfort of flavors that patrons know and love, elevating them with new recipes.

Stationary bikes don’t get you anywhere

By Anna Mitchell · Monday, Nov. 4, 2024

Escaping reality through fantasy is only a distraction from the adventure God has planned for us. Author, singer and songwriter Andrew Peterson wrote of his own gravitation towards escapism in his book “Adorning the Dark.”

Zondervan hosts Colleen Warren’s book talk

By Katie Siedenburg · Monday, Nov. 4, 2024

Colleen Warren, professor of English, published her third book in February 2024. The book, “The First Verb: Cultivating Christian Creativity,” introduces Warren’s approach and story regarding creativity as well as the interest and research that her journey sparked.