Adam Nettina
Student Blogger
Biography
Adam M. Nettina began writing about sports when he was a freshman in college, covering Naval Academy athletics for CollegeFootballNews.com and the Scout.com network. A 2011 graduate of Utah State University, where he worked as a feature writer for the university’s athletic media relations office, he served as an assistant acquisitions editor for the Naval Institute Press before pursuing a master’s in English from Abilene Christian University. Currently a writer in the Franciscan University of Steubenville Marketing and Communications office, he maintains an active freelance writing presence, with work featured in Military History, Naval History, CatholicVote.org, and Ruminate magazine.
A Heart for Mission
Heather (Prush ’96) Perry first heard the call to global evangelization after a pilgrimage to Poland in 2013. Today, she’s helping Franciscan University students make their missionary ideas a reality.
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Waiting for Hope Incarnate
For to us a child is born. A child of hair and nails and teeth; a child of shoulders and ankles and wrists and knees; a child of muscles that strained and bones that broke and cartilage that twisted and rubbed and wore and tore. A child who could, and who would, feel the pain and limitations of being human.
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Building Businesses With Meaning
Franciscan’s young student entrepreneurs aren’t waiting to finish their degrees before starting their own small businesses.
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“A Kind of Inheritance”
How authentic Catholic higher education seeks to instill students with a freedom for excellence in a post-Christian world.
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Nettina: Finding Beauty in Holy Week
There’s a common phrase we hear when discussing our faith. Perhaps you’ve heard it in class. Possibly, you’ve read it in a blog post. Maybe, you heard your favorite Catholic speaker lay claim to it, nodding your head and thinking, “yeah man, that.”
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Teach Us to Sit Still
Early morning on I-20 comes slowly. Even from the driver seat of a Ford Mustang GT, cutting the dark blues of the expanding horizon between Abilene and Baird at 90 mph, the sunrise seems to take hours.
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Six Books to Read During Lent
Lent doesn’t need to be all about giving things up. It can also be about deepening our desire to grow closer to God through adding items and activities into our life. One way to do that is picking up a good book. From spiritual devotions to biographies to novels, here are six suggestions for good Lenten reads from Franciscan University students and staff.
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