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August E. Grant, Amanda F. C. Sturgill, Chiung Hwang Chen, and Daniel A. Stout, eds., Religion Online: How Digital Technology is Changing the Way We Worship and Pray
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Jin Hwan Lee, The Lord’s Supper in Corinth in the Context of Greco-Roman Private Associations
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Alyce M. McKenzie, Making a Scene in the Pulpit: Vivid Preaching for Visual Listeners
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“It’s Not Your Everyday Classroom”
Full text linkA school-based enterprise (SBE) is an entrepreneurial operation managed and operated by students in a school setting. School-based enterprises reinforce classroom instruction through practice-based learning and can enhance creativity, innovation, problem-solving, critical thinking, and other skills. In addition to creating a more engaging, enriching learning environment, SBE bridges the gap between classroom instruction and the world of work and can benefit students, schools, and communities. This paper utilized the systems view of school climate framework to assess differences in perceptions of school climate between students participating in SBE and students not participating in SBE at a high school in the Mississippi River Delta Region. The qualitative analysis of five focus groups with 36 students examined differences in relationships, values, and beliefs and findings indicated that SBE can produce more meaningful, enriching learning experiences than students not participating in SBE. This research adds to the sparse empirical analyses of SBE and suggests directions for future inquiry
The Turning Point of the Vietnam War and Johnson's Legacy
No full textThis essay, composed for a first-year writing seminar on 20th century American foreign policy, examines the circumstances and motivations behind President Lyndon Johnson’s choice to increase American involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as the eventual consequences of his foreign policy.
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Appalachian Winter
No full textThis poem focuses on the reclusive, contemplative nature of the world in the winter months, and the things occurring during that time that may not be obvious at first glance. 
Fearing God and Evil Spirits: The Preaching of Malagasy Shepherds
No full textThis article investigates how so-called “shepherds” (mpiandry) in the Malagasy revival movement (Fifohazana) recognize, identify, and address fears through their preaching in what here are called healing services. The services follow a strict liturgy and allow for homiletical spaces where fears are expressed and addressed. This essay presents a few detailed stories from field material produced from qualitative research interviews and observation of preaching in these services. The specific emphasis in the material reveals how in their preaching the shepherds interpret the problems of life in terms of a fight with evil spirits and the devil. Preaching in the movement transforms and empowers vulnerable and excluded people, it reconciles them with God, and it gives meaning and direction to their day-to-day struggles. The preaching, however, is mainly occupied with individual salvation. The author challenges the movement to find contextually and culturally coherent ways to advocate for justice for the vulnerable and excluded