by Ashley Bingham | Mar 5, 2019 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider, Student Spotlight
Tumi Mfoloe, a junior animation student at Lipscomb, accidentally stumbled upon her passion early last year when she was able to self-publish her first novel. In January of 2018, Mfoloe self-published her book, The Meeting, on Amazon under the pen name Tumi Yukii. Soon after, it became available for purchase at Barnes and Noble. She first developed the idea for the book while reading stories on a site called Wattpad, a place where aspiring writers can share their works for free. She claimed that many of the stories that she read all sounded the same, so she took it upon herself to write something different, not really expecting it to go anywhere. Her story features two musicians from New York, Tumi and John, who meet each other on a night out. Unlike other romantic novels Mfoloe had read, this couple has a different type of relationship from that of what is normally seen in media these days. It shows the story of a Christian couple that focuses on the importance of communication in a relationship, along with the decision to save its first kiss as a couple for marriage. “What I love about Tumi and John and everyone else in the book is that they will sit and have a conversation—they’re open to communication,” Mfoloe said. Mfoloe received incredibly positive feedback from her story after it was posted online, as her story was read over 200,000 times. Because of this, she decided to rewrite it and publish it into a novel. “If these people online have liked my book and have said all these great things about it, then probably...
by Travis Byrd | Feb 12, 2014 | News Slider
Friends are supposed to prevent each other from making bad decisions. On Tuesday, Lipscomb students were informed how to keep their friends from dating dumb. Michael Johnson (pictured to the right), the co-founder and and dean of dating of Future Marriage University, spoke to Lipscomb students during Tuesday’s Gathering. His foundation centers on how to date the right way. John Conger, who is the chair of department of family and consumer sciences, hopes that Lipscomb students will take Johnson’s message to heart. “I hope the take away will be that students and faculty will become more aware of the importance of relationship choices, not only for themselves, but also that friends don’t let friends date dumb,” Conger said. Johnson gave students a unique view into the world of dating by sharing ways to not date dumb, such as not dating because everyone is or just because they can. “A lot of people are making many fatal errors in relationships, and these cause untold suffering to individuals,” Conger said. “If there are children involved, these problems perpetuate into coming generations.” This chapel also signaled the start of what is being called Relationships Week. Students are going to be challenged to start taking a serious look at how their relationships are functioning. “It is a three day conference focusing on relationship choices and processes in today’s culture,” Conger said. “It’s time we had some serious conversations about this, and what better place and time than in college, when many will make these relationship choices.” Lipscomb students can get involved by attending various events throughout campus. Guys will be able to hear the second half of Johnson’s speech...
by Brianne Welch | Jan 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Author of Cold Tangerines, Bittersweet and Bread and Wine, Shauna Niequist addressed every college students’ favorite subject, relationships, in the Gathering Tuesday morning. Niequist’s plan was to talk about the “secret and the heart of all relationships.” With that opening statement, she grabbed the audience’s attention. She followed up that statement later on with the one sentence that she feels the need to say whenever she is at a college campus. “Whoever you are, male or female, freshman or senior, single or dating or engaged or married,” Niequist said. “You are significant with or without a significant other.” Niequist made the statement to remind students how significant they are, and that being a part of a couple does not make a person more important, and also to remind students that everyone’s life timeline is different. After making her opening remarks, Niequist’s got to her main point of discussion, the secret of relationships, which she says is forgiveness. Forgiveness when dating, in the family and with friendships. Niequist stressed the importance of friendships at this time in a person’s life. “Worry less about dating and invest more in friends,” Niequist said. While talking about friendships, she made the point that even those will not last unless forgiveness is active in the relationship. She said that conflict is inevitable, and the only way to maintain those relationships is by being able to forgive. “When brokenness happens in a relationship it doesn’t mean it’s over, it means it’s normal,” Niequist said. The next thing Niequist addressed was how to forgive and what it means to be a forgiver. She says it is...
