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Book Review: International Human Rights
Get PDFInternational Human Rights by Jack Donnelly and Daniel Whelan is holistic overview of human rights theory, institutions and law. The text is a well-developed summary that does not shy away from abstract concepts and advanced ideas. This allows the writers to do two things, convey the history of thought on the matter of rights, and to introduce the palpable tension within human rights concepts versus practice. Time is spent on democracy and human rights for example, where guarantees of freedom for all can understandably lead to violation of rights for some. This is important because these foundational concepts set the tone for the rest of the text
Gendered Conflict Resolution: The Role of Women in Amani Mashinani’s Peacebuiding Processes in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya
Get PDFThe role of women in peacebuilding is acknowledged by many stakeholders central in peace work. While this is so, there are still concerns about what we know about women’s involvement in peacebuilding structures established by non-state actors. Drawing from Amani Mashinani (Peace at Grassroots) peacebuilding model initiated by the Catholic Church in Kenya’s North Rift region, we examine the role of women in processes of conflict resolution in Uasin Gishu County. Suggestions to support women’s participation will be discussed
Our Climate to Change: Climate and Racial (In)Justice Through Artivism
No full textThe event features six artivists (people who use art for activism) whose work addresses themes of racial and climate justice. The event includes short presentations from each artist and breakout room discussions with the artists followed by a debrief aimed at enhancing the CSBSJU community’s approach to advancing racial and climate justice at the same time
“Thus seyden sadde folk”: Chaucer’s Oxford Clerk on Theological Controversy in the 14th Century
Get PDFAmong the most disturbing of The Canterbury Tales, the Oxford Clerk’s story of the submissive Griselda and her husband-cum-tormentor Walter has, despite its categorization as one of Chaucer’s “religious tales,” resisted most, if not all, theological readings with its lack of a clear moral. I attempt to address this ambiguity by focusing on the teller himself. As an Oxford-trained cleric, the Clerk is uniquely qualified to juggle the interrelated but conflicting discourses of two significant theological controversies of the late fourteenth century: the ongoing realist-nominalist debate within medieval universities and the rising Wycliffite/lollardy reform movement among all levels of English society. The realist-nominalist debate significantly dealt with questions of free will, divine foreknowledge, and predestination, and in the fourteenth century, Oxford clerics such as William of Ockham, Thomas Bradwardine, and John Wyclif proposed a variety of irreconcilable answers to these questions. Wyclif’s reform movement outside of the university – informed by his realist philosophy – also challenged the theological tradition in new ways. The Clerk’s Tale seems inconsistent in its philosophy because the Oxford Clerk functions at least partly as a representative of his role within society, and he thus carries these varied and often contradictory discourses into his literary narrative. My research illustrates how Chaucer leverages his source material, his narrator, and his familiarity with these particular academic and populist controversies in order to present a tale that is not merely a story of a long-suffering wife but rather a reflection of the socio-theological climate of the late fourteenth century
MLK Week 2020: Ricardo Levins Morales Keynote
No full textThe keynote speaker Ricardo Levins Morales presents at the Quadrangle Building at Saint John\u27s University.
Cosponsored by the following groups: Academic Affairs, Admission, Anthropology Department, Art Department, CSB Campus Ministry, CSB President\u27s Office, CSB Residence Life, CSB Student Development, CSBSJU Libraries, Department of Theology, Education Department, Environmental Studies Department, Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement, Fine Arts Programming, Intercultural and International Student Services, Joint Events Council, Languages and Cultures Department, SJU Campus Ministry, SJU President\u27s Office, SJU School of Theology, SJU Student Development, United Way of Central Minnesota
Are we still Dreaming? Living Woke in a World Built on a Dream
No full textPastor James Alberts II of the Higher Ground Church of God in St. Cloud delivered the MLK Week 2020 convocation.
In August of 1963, one of the most iconic speeches of all time was given in Washington, D.C. by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he shared with the world his dream of the future state of our nation. Dr. King’s speech gave words to what many see and believe to be possible even today. While we do not dispute the words, turning them into action has been a far greater challenge. The Poor People’s Campaign was started by Rev. Dr. King to create a united front to demand economic equality and human rights for all Americans of diverse backgrounds and though he died shortly after its inception, the architecture of the movement had been created and we follow its blueprint in large part today. Our challenge is in knowing how to be “WOKE” and own the responsibility of living in a time where we can do what our forefathers could only dream about
Lectio of Surprises
Get PDFThis is a short piece I wrote for Saint Paul Monastery’s Benedictine Center on lectio divina. It was posted on their blog in November 2019. I lead their School of Lectio Divina, a 6-day silent retreat, and wrote this piece about my own lectio practice. It included 3 pictures, which could not be uploaded in the document in this format. I’m happy to send them to you if you want this piec
