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Monday, Sept. 21, 2026
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Rend Collective comes to TU

By Caleb Harder · Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026

Christian music group Rend Collective is coming to Taylor Feb. 21. Tickets cost $15 for students and $30 for general admission. 

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TU Theatre keeps the show going

By Sadie Maples · Monday, Dec. 8, 2025

During Shrek the Musical’s Nov. 14 performance, one of the wall arches protruding from both sides of the stage fell off its track mid-performance. 

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The Main Street Mile Initiative invites students into work

By Caleb Harder · Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025

The Main Street Mile Initiative’s Community Coordinator Program is hiring a graphic designer. The position includes creating professional and informative graphics for social media platforms that spread awareness of the Main Street Mile Initiative’s programs.  

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Whitney O'Brien comes to campus

By Caleb Harder · Friday, Nov. 14, 2025

Recruiter Whitney O’Brien stopped at Taylor to speak about the possibilities of Taylor students interning at Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization. O’Brien works at Samaritan’s Purse’s Campus Relations team, travelling to different universities and telling of the work the organization does.

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Residence life team speaks on housing

By Kenna Hartian · Monday, Nov. 10, 2025

Taylor’s residence life program is one of the school’s characteristic features, Julia Hurlow, dean of campus life, said. The close-knit community is reminiscent of the early church. 

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Historian lectures on Founding Father’s Faith

By Caleb Harder · Monday, Nov. 3, 2025

Thomas Kidd, research professor of church history at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, spoke on the faith of Thomas Jefferson and his complex relationship to Scripture on Oct. 23 for Taylor’s Halbrook Lecture in the Recital Hall.

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Exit Church hosts Fall Fest in new building

By Karlee Johnson · Monday, Nov. 3, 2025

Long tables lined with vegetable trays, pasta salad, pulled pork and chili. Another table filled with mountains of cookies and apple pie cupcakes. Little kids weaving through grown-ups’ legs. The sound of fiddles and banjos filling the large room. People laughing on the dance floor, boasting their best fall flannels.