UC BLOG

We are ecstatic to have Caleb and Addy (Roberts) Horne taking on new and expanded roles with the University Center beginning this summer! Addy will serve full-time as the University Center Office Manager, supporting the daily operations of the ministry through communication, financial administration, hospitality, alumni relations, event coordination, and administrative leadership. Caleb will serve as our new UC Men’s Campus Ministry Apprentice for the next two years, focusing

Campus Encounter 2026 is in the books! On the weekend of February 20-22, nearly 250 people gathered for worship, fellowship, encouragement, and a deep dive into the word “Holy.” Special thanks to Phil Brookman (from the Memorial Road Church of Christ in Edmond, Oklahoma) and Grant Testut (from Oklahoma Christian University) for reminding us that in the same way a tiny drop of gasoline pollutes an entire bottle of water, contact with God’s holiness immediately takes away all o

Many of you either know students in your community, or it’s your own kids who are graduating and heading to college for the first time! If you are looking for ways to support and encourage them as graduation gets nearer… I can’t promise you that they will hear anything you say to them. However, speaking as the girl who was nervously asking her older brother for advice right before she left, desperately calling her mom with a new saga every week, and was missing family way mor

I grew up in a very small town in Hooker, Oklahoma. My worldview was simple, rural, and defined by the edges of town that met the...

I have learned that it is very easy for me to be selfish. Many things in my life can become annoying if I am not careful. When a moment...

My dad was a state trooper for the state of Oklahoma. He said once to me that our jobs were very similar in nature. As a law...

One of the most bittersweet realities of decades in campus ministry is that you grow older. Alone. It’s not a bad thing, just hard...

There are some songs in our Christian heritage that are forever connected with the first person I heard lead them. When it comes to my ...

Students are in the third quarter of the school year. It is dark, cold, and filled with Covid-driven anxiety, worry, and fear. They have...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Act 15 is a key moment of the...

I recently went to visit Mrs. Duncan in the Spanish Coves care facility on December 30th. We said hello and spent an hour laughing,...

I’ve taken up a new hobby. Tracking. I’m not very good at it. I hurt my elbow this fall and it took a long time to heal. So I...

This is a great article written by one of our former UC interns, Chellie Mills, on the impact that the UC ministry had on her spiritual...

At the end of each semester, students return home from 16 weeks of living the college reality. This is year is very different. The...

There is an irony in trying to suggest that mankind is both indebted to live within the structure of laws and proclaiming that in the...

1st Corinthians is actually 2nd Corinthians and 2nd Corinthians is probably 4th Corinthians. What!? When did this happen? I remember...

When does a new church song accord the privilege of making the noble transition to becoming one of the "oldies"? I recently was able to...

I never meant for it to happen. In retrospect, I can see how it happened. Very quietly. Slowly. And without attention. But it was...

I was nervous last night. It was my "return" to intramural sports. Granted, in the greater scheme of life and things, it was probably...

If you are a campus minister you are probably in a weird place right now. You are experiencing the great detoxification of moving from a...