Josh Eaton is a staff journalist for MBU Timeline. He is a junior majoring in journalism at Missouri Baptist University. He enjoys leading worship as well as researching, playing and watching everything sports in his spare time.
Sugarfire BBQ and Bailey’s Range have sat atop the best burger list in STL for some time, but 5 Star Burgers is slowly climbing its way up the ranks in the Gateway City.
Missouri Baptist University hosted its first-ever outdoor play, “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” in the Quad, directed by Kasey Cox. The play offered a living room concert atmosphere as students came and went as they pleased, as others sat Indian style up close, enjoying the action.
The aroma of freshly brewed coffee and mouthwatering danishes baked daily, paired with the wood grained table tops and low lit environment that is VB Chocolate Bar, make for the perfect escape for both friendly conversations and business meetings alike.
Photos by Josh Eaton
Calvary Church employees Larry Loraine (left) and Caleb Carlson (right) spend the afternoon working in their second office, VB Chocolate Bar.
The 9-point underdog Kansas City Chiefs rewrote their story this week with a record-setting Week 1 upset in Foxborough against the reigning Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots.
After a rough offseason riddled with trades and lost talent, the St. Louis Blues overcame the odds to clinch a playoff spot once again, for the sixth season in a row. And now they’re on a roll with a run nobody expected, up 3-0 in the first-round series against Minnesota.
Here are some interesting facts about MBU Timeline, the student newsmagazine of Missouri Baptist University, in St. Louis:
*Our mission statement is: MBU Timeline is the student news network of Missouri Baptist University, a private Christian university that embraces the essential core value of “social change through service and leadership.”
*The Bible verse that drives our mission is 2 Timothy 2:15 (Worldwide English Version): “Tell the true message in the right way.”
*The WordPress website has been up since late-fall 2013. We average about 3,000 sessions and about 5,000 pageviews per month.
*Our stories and galleries get as few as 40 or 50 hits, or as many as 8,000 hits.
*We have readers in every state and more than 90 countries around the world. We have several readers in South America, the United Kingdom, India and Australia.
*Most of our readers are in Missouri, followed by Illinois, California and Texas.
*We do not accept advertising as we are a not-for-profit online newsmagazine.
*We welcome contributors from all walks of MBU life, regardless of your major. Reach out to us on Twitter at: @mbutimeline.