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Paul Joshua, edited by Joel A. Carpenter. Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2022, 249 pages.
Get PDFNadya Pohran. Invitation and Belonging in a Christian Ashram: Building Interreligious Community in Northern India. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 210 pages.
Get PDFResisting the Resistance: How the Environment is Impacting Antibiotic Resistance
Get PDFUpon their discovery, antibiotics were known as “wonder drugs” due to their ability to cure serious bacterial infections. While antibiotics are still revolutionary in healthcare today, the emergence of antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health. Antibiotic resistance is simply a normal adaptive response where bacteria evolve over time. However, overuse of antibiotics, sub-optimal treatment regimens, and environmental exposures create optimal conditions for antibiotic resistance to develop and spread. Common ways antibiotics enter the environment are via wastewater and agricultural use. Even with properly functioning wastewater treatment systems, full removal of resistant bacteria may not be possible as many have been found in natural bodies of water. Within the agricultural ecosystem, bacteria exhibiting antibiotic resistance may be pathogenic to humans. The growing issue of antibiotic resistance demonstrates that addressing environmental exposures now is imperative for the future prevention of development and halting the spread of resistant strains
Giving the Green Light to Red Light
Get PDFEmerging data suggests that light therapy offers a variety of health benefits. Absorption or reflection of light energy determines how light impacts the body. Different aspects of light exposure, including wavelength, duration, and intensity, can impact its ability to target human tissues. The longer the wavelength, the deeper it can penetrate the skin. Due to its long wavelength, red light therapy has been shown to improve sleep and enhance alertness by modulating hormone levels in the body. It has also shown benefit in those struggling with certain medical conditions, such as Parkinson’s Disease. Incorporating red light into a daily routine can be an easy yet beneficial way to enhance sleep and optimize daily performance
Transnational, Queer Feminist: Remembering Harriet Noble, Indiana\u27s Prominent Suffragette, 1851-1919
Get PDFHistorians play a vital role in questioning mainstream narratives and understanding bias; there are seldom public conversations about the varying historical accounts of events or the power behind controlling the story. The common narrative of the woman’s suffrage movement begins with the 1848 Seneca Falls convention and centered around respectable women requesting the ballot, including familiar figures such as Susan B. Anthony. This excludes radical, transnational, queer, feminists; in Indiana, this woman is Harriet Noble. By framing Noble’s relation to the suffrage movement through the analysis of qualitative, narrative-based archival research at archives in Indiana, Washington D.C., and England a better understanding of her contributions can be developed. I hypothesize that Noble\u27s time in England becomes pivotal to her emergence as a public clubwoman fighting for suffrage. Noble’s activism in Indiana and beyond greatly influenced the political participation of women in this era and rewrites the mainstream history of the suffrage movement to include queer and transnational relationships
The Impact of a Not-for-Profit Organization: Examining How Kids Dance Outreach is Guided by its Mission Statement
Get PDFKids Dance Outreach (KDO) is a not-for-profit organization that provides accessible, high-quality dance arts education to children in Indianapolis. Its mission is to positively impact the lives of all children through joyful dance programs that inspire excellence, instill confidence, encourage teamwork, and applaud persistence. In an effort to study its impact on the community, this thesis examines how the organization is guided by its mission statement and how it lives out this mission through its staff, stakeholders, and programming. For my research, I went on site visits to observe a KDO class in action, and conducted interviews with several individuals who are either members of KDO who work to live out its mission, or are connected to the organization and have experienced its impact. To successfully examine how KDO fulfills its mission, I connected the information gathered from interviews and observations to each quality within the mission: inspiring excellence, instilling confidence, encouraging teamwork, and applauding persistence
Paulson Pulikottil. Beyond Dalit Theology. Searching for New Frontiers. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2022, xv + 156 pages.
Get PDFYou Are What You Eat
Get PDFThe gut microbiome is the wide array of good and bad bacteria found in the digestive tract of all humans. Although the composition of gut microbiota is developed before someone is even born, there are nutritional decisions made in adulthood that can impact the health of the gut. Certain nutritional foods can increase the diversity of the gut and create a beneficial environment. On the other hand, many foods found in the common American diet can negatively impact the microbiome. The gut can suffer from a poor diet when the permeability of the intestinal barrier and the diversity richness is damaged. Building this relationship can systemically be advantageous or harmful for the whole body, which is reflected by medical conditions that have been associated with an unhealthy gut. To minimize health risks, it is important to incorporate nutritious foods into one’s diet, while limiting specific ingredients that are unfavorable to the gut microbiome