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A Pathway to Gender Neutral housing
No full textGeorge Fox University is a small, private Quaker university in Newberg, Oregon, just southwest of Portland. In the fall of 2013, a transgender student, named only as Jaycen to protect his identity, was denied housing consistent with his gender identity as a man. Jaycen had requested to live on campus with a group of male friends and had obtained a male gender marker on his identification. George Fox University refused, in accordance with their policy on preventing unwed students of different genders from living together, and offered Jaycen a choice between a single apartment on campus and living off campus. (“Students Identifying as Transgender,” n.d.)
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James Henry Harris, Beyond the Tyranny of the Text: Preaching in Front of the Bible to Create a New World
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Promissory Narration: Toward a Revised Narrative Homiletic in an Age of Identities
No full textThis essay offers a third way of thinking about experience and identity in narrative preaching—a homiletical-theological one in relation to the character of the gospel as promise. I begin by building on a trajectory of research that sees an intimate relationship between biblical narrative and promise, especially the work of Ronald Thiemann, Christopher Morse, and James Kay. With Kay’s help, I then turn to an especially rich opportunity for revising what Morse first called promissory narration by means of Carolyn Helsel’s appropriation of Paul Ricoeur’s The Course of Recognition in relation to the problem of white racism. In the process, I will also bring Ricoeur’s work on promise and narrated identity to help rethink how promissory narration might help narrative preachers work through a course of recognition and transformation of identity in ways that move past the liberal/postliberal impasse about experience that has dogged especially white narrative homiletics
Adolescent Mothers’ Life Trajectory: What is Dimming Their Futures?
Full text linkFor years, researchers contended that early pregnancy was the primary determinant for poor life outcomes for adolescent mothers (Hayes, 1987, as cited in SmithBattle 2007, p 410). More recently, the flaws in these assumptions have surfaced as theories such as the general systems theory on human behavior are gaining traction. This states that from the individual level (social interactions, cultural beliefs and values, degree of self-efficacy) to the environmental level (family, peer groups, societal norms, social class, economic status, racism), the widening disparity along one’s developmental life course reveals outcomes unique to a person and their experiences (Coie et al., 1993, pp 1014, 1016). The intertwined nature of these systems, each of which will be discussed in further sections, have altered the direction of research concerning sources of poor life outcomes commonly attributed to adolescent motherhood
Si Se Puede Apoyar
Full text linkThis paper explores the influence and impact of support from higher education professionals on Latinx womxn identifying students identity development and college completion. An analysis of current literature allows for an understanding of the different categories of support that Latinx womxn can benefit from and that currently exist. This paper goes a step further by engaging in qualitative research in the form of semi-structured interviews with Latinx womxn at a variety of institution types to further gather data on their college experiences and how they feel support, or lack thereof, from higher education professionals. This paper is helpful in providing recommendations and potential solutions that higher education professionals in any functional area can effectively implement to better support Latinx womxn at the university level
Richard Voelz, Preaching To Teach: Inspire People to Think and Act
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