Mount Vernon Nazarene University Chapel Schedule

The following is a list of some of the speakers that have been welcomed onto the campus and/or chapel pulpit of MVNU. These speakers promote differing elements of emergent, liberal, and contemplative,  eastern/new age, or Catholic philosophies and practices to students.   Welcoming these speakers to MVNU’s campus in an undebated or biased format is the same as endorsing and giving validity [...]

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Ancient-Future Nazarenes

There is a movement that has taken hold in the Nazarene denomination calling on people (mostly the young) to embrace an Ancient-Future worship style.  The movement draws its adherents to look to the past, or early church fathers for a new direction for the future of worship.  This movement embraces the pietism of early monastic life, and of practices of the [...]

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MVNU Welcomes Tony Campolo 2006

In  the fall of 2006 I traveled to Mount Vernon Nazarene University to visit my daughter and to check on some concerns on the campus. I arrived in time to join her in chapel.  The school had welcomed Tony Campolo to the pulpit.  He was a very entertaining and engaging speaker, however, the more he talked, the more my countenance [...]

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