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Global Newspaper Assignment
Get PDFThis assignment was created for POLS 121: Introduction to International Relations.
Learning Goals:
1. Become more familiar with an international topic.
2. Develop experience with the library databases.
3. Improve research skills to identify relevant non-U.S. perspectives
4. Practice analytical skills to become critical consumers of political information.
a. Learn to distinguish between authoritative and unreliable information sources.
b. Understand the importance of considering perspectives beyond U.S. media sources.
c. Understand when and how to cite properly.
d. Synthesize ideas from multiple sources.
e. Understand how reading multiple perspectives presents a more nuanced view of international relations.
5. Reflect on the value of relevant non-U.S. perspectives
Lunch & Learn : An Unexpected Call
No full textSaint John\u27s Newly elected Abbot Douglas Mullin is the speaker at the final Lunch & Learn of the year. Welcome Abbot Doug as he shares his story of becoming the eleventh abbot of Saint John’s Abbey. Sponsored by the Benedictine Institute
Homily for Mass of the Holy Spirit
Get PDFThis year, the monks of Saint John’s Abbey, the sponsoring religious order of the Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary, convened to elect a new abbot, after the retirement of the previous, who had served for twenty years. This homily was given by Father Dale Launderville, OSB at the Mass of the Holy Spirit, which both opened the official election process and was the culmination of a year-long process of discernment and prayer that enable the monks to enter the voting confident of the aid of the Holy Spirit
A Narrative Analysis of Gensis 15
Get PDFThis paper seeks to read Genesis 15 through a narrative lens. While historical critical method provides some framework, the main purpose is to read this text as a work of literature: a story told to an audience to convey something of shared importance. What theological insights a reader gains from this literary approach may be different from that which one sees when analyzing the text with a more tradition lens
Photo Series: Tree
Get PDFThese five photos, and their associated texts, by Sister Jacqueline Leiter, OSB are reflections on key aspects of Christian living. Dispersed throughout this volume of the journal, they offer moments of pause between the other articles
Newman\u27s Faith in a Synodal Church
Get PDFThis piece is a brief exploration of the theology of how the church develops by John Henry Newman with particular attention to the connection to the synodal church of today
To Embody Christ\u27s Image: Queer Presence in Liturgy
Get PDFThis paper examines how approaching liturgical issues from a Queer vantage-point in both theory and practice offers a fresh lens for not only understanding liturgy but recognizing the urgent need for Queer-influenced liturgical rites
A Spirit of Dialogue in Unitatis Redintegratio
Get PDFThis piece is reflection on Unitatis Redintegratio and the style of Vatican II, which aims to lift up the spirit of dialogue and ecumenism