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Exterior Scapes Series
No full textThis series of artwork explores the theme of exterior landscapes. The series contains 5 pairings in the form of diptychs. The photos were taken on a spring break trip to Miami, Florida in 2022. Each of these pairings has a cohesiveness created by a matching line that passes from one image into the other. These lines were created by horizon lines, tides, and shorelines. The pairing and connection between the two images asks the viewer to compare two different moments in time
Now, Immemorial
Get PDFA collection of poetry about liminal space and in-between moments, compiled as part of a class project to make our own chapbooks
Constructed environment; Grasping Nature
Get PDFI juxtaposed strong greens to capture the dynamics of nature with black and white imagery of industrialization. The black and white industrialization interacts in diverse ways in each piece with the dynamics of nature that pour from a frame of some kind. There is only one discrepancy between all three pieces in terms of the contrast in color
Ezra Pound and Confucius: The West Encounters The East
Get PDFThe poet Ezra Pound was one of the first to translate Confucianism for everyday Americans. This capstone is about Pound\u27s challenges when translating Confucian writings. Pound had a unique approach which was influenced by politics, religion, and his own poetic style
Stirring Up the Soil: Best Practices to Mitigate Lead Exposure in Contaminated Soils within Omaha, Nebraska
Get PDFCities across the nation in the United States experience problems associated with lead contamination in their urban soils due to industrial pollution. In many instances, the emission of lead particles occurred – unregulated – for several decades. Though there are federal cleanup efforts to help minimize the negative impacts of lead contamination for the public in the United States, the efforts are designated for specified criteria and thus do not reach all areas which need to be remediated. In order to perform proper lead abatement practices, local organizations must take initiative on projects which meet the needs and demands of their specific communities. Potential solutions can be found by an analysis of case studies including cities which have successful lead abatement initiatives. Through this analysis, an important question will be answered: how can the city of Omaha, Nebraska aid the community to rebuild a healthy and vibrant environment with the legacy of lead pollution persisting within the downtown area
The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World
No full textFocusing on the traditional practices of one Ojibwe family, carried out through the seasons of the year and across the seasons of life, celebrated Ojibwe scholar Anton Treuer discusses the enduring power of Ojibwe culture and identity. “Today’s Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them,” writes Dr. Treuer. “Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are as diverse as their homelands, but these variations have always followed a distinct path, reflecting an identifiably Ojibwe worldview. While the world around, in, and connected to Ojibwe spaces continues to envelop myriad cultures and peoples, the Ojibwe have found a way to stay recognizable to their ancestors.”
Sponsored by the Indigenous Students Association in collaboration with the McCarthy Center’s Initiative for Native Nation Revitalization, Becoming Community, and the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning
Advocacy to Advance the Common Good in the Classroom and in Research: Redrawing Line(s) in a Post-Truth Empire where the Bad Guys are Winning
No full textGlobally, authoritarian regimes have increasingly employed religion to reinforce nationalism – in Russia, India, Turkey, Brazil, and the United States, for just a few examples. Locally, scientific expertise (and traditional authority in classrooms and other public venues) is under siege from partisan cadres. How does what some describe as a “post-truth” cultural climate necessitate redrawing lines of advocacy, democratic debate, and the common good? In this workshop, employing cases from both research and teaching, Jon Pahl will invite conversation that includes attention to advocacy along lines of age, race, and gender to explore how some surprising new possibilities emerge when the science-based social construction of society meets the enduring wisdom of indigenous and historic traditions and their practices.
John Pahl is the Peter Paul and Elizabeth Hagan Professor of the History of Christianity at United Lutheran Seminary (ULS) Philadelphia/Gettysburg. He’s the author of seven books, include Fethullah Gulan: A Life of Hizmet (2021) and Empire of Scarifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence (2012). He has taught a Valparaiso, Temple, and Princeton in addition to his tenure at ULS
Collegeville Connections: Praying with our Pens on Ash Wednesday
No full textIt’s not too late to gather with friends and prepare for Lent through a reflective writing practice. You are invited to join retreat leader and writer Carol Younger on Ash Wednesday to experience how writing in community can deepen your spiritual life. Participants in this interactive virtual presentation will have the opportunity to reflect on Scripture, do a timed writing exercise, and learn how they might form a writing group in their own place of worship. As Carol says, “If writing is a form of prayer, then writing groups are a prayer meeting. The Church is a great writing teacher.”
Carol Davis Younger is the editor of Reflections, a daily devotional guide published by NextSunday Resources. She thinks of the Church, an abundant source of inspiration, challenge, and possibility, as her favorite writing teacher. Carol has authored extensive curriculum for congregations and loves encouraging churches to practice the ministry of writing through writing groups. Carol and her husband, Brett, live in Brooklyn, NY, where he pastors Plymouth Church. They are part of the Collegeville Institute’s Communities of Calling Initiative