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Determining Presidential Greatness
Get PDFMany scholars have argued that presidential greatness is both hard to determine and most likely impossible to determine, due to the many personal and institutional factors. Presidential greatness is hard to determine, but Historians and Political Scientists believe that there are certain characteristics that a President must have to aid in his success. Among these characteristics, I found that both Historians and Political Scientists, alike, believe that management ability is possibly one of the most important characteristics a President can have.Dr. Andrea Hatche
Green Schools: Washington and Lee
No full textThis entry links to a Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OQfS3Cf0RkWashington and Lee University; ; Renewable energy; ; Solar thermal; ; Power purchasing Agreement; ; ;
Abstract: This video, made with support from an Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Blended Learning Grant (2013-2014), documents solar projects at Washington and Lee University.
Teaching Method: The video demonstrates the use of a power purchasing agreement and legislative transition in Virginia toward more favorable solar energy policies
Preaching in the Digital Era: Options, Choices, and Methods of Feedback
Get PDFIn an era of rapidly changing and expanding media options, the way we communicate in the United States is going through. Meanwhile, in the midst of this digital age preaching remains largely an exclusively oral medium. This project will examine options for integrating media options into the task of preaching.
It will present a four-fold methodology to help a preacher move beyond his or her current limits of style and content. First, a written project will describe the cultural context and the congregational context in which we find ourselves. With material from Shane Hipps, Tony Jones, Fred Craddock, Dianna Butler Bass, and Walter Ong, I will examine the rapidly changing media landscape in which we find ourselves and the ways in which it may affect the task of preaching. Citing Hipps, Reuel Howe, Dianna Butler Bass, and Craddock, I will look at how this changing media landscape impacts the congregational context of preaching (i.e., how preaching takes place in a community, not just as the task of the preacher alone).
In the second section I will present options. I will list and describe the forms of oral preaching delineated by Wesley Allen, Jr. I will cite the work of Thomas Troeger and Edward Everding on appealing to multiple intelligences. I’ll provide excerpts from interviews with Tony Jones, Shane Hipps and a fellow preacher Paul St. Germain that describe how they undertake the preaching process. I will offer options for dramatic presentations as sermons from Tom Long and Friends of the Groom drama troupe, and present some suggestions from fellow preacher George Glazier who occasionally uses what he calls “the offering plate sermon.”
In the third section I will describe the congregational context in which I serve, and how it has developed into a community where a number of these options are put into practice. Not only will I offer a brief history of that movement, but I will also provide quotes from a videotaped feedback session with a select, multi-generational group from the congregation. I will also provide an internet link to the complete video.
In the final section I will present three sets of sermons. In each set the first sermon is from a previous era of my ministry and found in text/oral form. The second sermon in each set reflects on the same lessons but utilizes some form of media other than just the spoken word. In this section I will describe the intent and reason for the uses of extra media and provide comments (received by email) from the same feedback group in section three. The emails will provide feedback as to whether or not the introduction of additional media actually made a difference in hearing the message of the Gospel.
In conclusion, I will offer a summary of the effect of rapidly changing media on preaching from the perspective of my congregational context and the means by which a preacher may respond
Case Studies in Sustainable Development - Class Syllabus
No full textClass syllabus. Web link to class website is included in abstract.This is a detailed syllabus, complete with extensive hyperlinks, for an upper level international politics course comparing case studies in sustainable development.
Teaching Method: Syllabus is living document that evolves online over time with the class in consultation with the students themselves, but great care is put into its initial development so that students have a clear understanding of the landscape ahead of them from day one in the class. The complete website for the course is available here: http://myweb.rollins.edu/mgunter/courses/pol333/index.htm .
Description: While deeply ingrained value judgments surround the term sustainable development, most now agree with Herman Daly, a former World Bank economist, that sustainable development is development that utilizes the interest of the earth’s natural resources without encroaching upon its capital. Just exactly how this process is carried out, though, remains hotly contested. That is, the precise political steps for policy implementation remain fuzzy to date.
This course examines an array of issues that highlight this deficiency before extrapolating the conditions needed to overcome them and, finally, synthesizing the lessons of our case studies into a blueprint for sustainable development. More specifically, by the end of this course students will be able to:
1. Explain the theoretical context in which the sustainable development debate is set.
2. Identify core causes to unsustainable development.
3. Analyze a range of case studies around the globe, featuring
a.social issues such as population growth, consumption, racism, poverty, disease, and ethnic conflict;
b.questions of energy usage and waste by-products, including nuclear energy, hydro-electric power, fossil fuels, and solar power;
c.economic and environmental protection tradeoffs, involving biodiversity protection, deforestation, invasive species, and tourism.
4. Predict shifts and challenges to sustainable development over the next two decades
Parking Lot Project - University of Richmond
No full textThis entry is for a Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTBx-ddUmEgThis student-made film depicts the thinking behind and progress toward the Parking Lot Project, an year-long art installation on the University of Richmond campus in C-Lot encouraging reflections about landscape and sustainability.
Teaching Method: This video was part of a group assignment for the First Year Seminar called "Green Schools.
The High-Priestly Christology of the Letter to the Hebrews: A Fusion of Late Second Temple Theology and Early Christian Tradition
Get PDFThe high-priestly Christology of the Letter to the Hebrews is unique in the New
Testament canon. As an early Christian writing, this letter may help us in our understanding of
what ideas, concepts, and traditions of late second temple Judaism influenced the development of
early Christian theology and Christology.
The author of Hebrews inherited the apocalyptic world view of second temple Judaism
and of the early Christian church. The author’s theology also has antecedents within the second
temple priestly tradition. One of these antecedents included the hope of a savior figure as seen in
the expectation of a priestly messiah. The author also believed in the efficacy of the temple cult
and drew from the cultic tradition as he developed his high-priestly Christology. The author
fused elements from the Jewish priestly theology with the early Christian tradition that he had
received to argue that the exalted Jesus Christ was Son of God as well as the heavenly high priest
of the heavenly sanctuary.Dr. Paul Holloway and Dr, James Dunkly, School of Theolog
A Pastoral Response to Haitian Vodou: A Nightmare for Religious Leaders Seeking True Converts to Christianity
Get PDFSyncretism between Vodou and Christianity is an important and current topic in the churches of Haiti. There seem to be conflicting ideas on how Vodou entered the Roman Catholic system and how the church should approach this subject. The church finds itself subjected to the same conflicts the pioneers of Christianity in Haiti first faced. The questions arise from two different ideologies of worship within systems that both use icons.
The church in Haiti, like all other churches, found itself in the midst of these two conflicting ideologies. Haiti has always faced a tension between the rich and the poor, and the High church and Low Church. Add in the implication of government in church business and the influence of other cultures and you can see why there are still few answers.
Haiti has long been in a situation of language conflict. Historically, the people have had to know many languages at the same time: Creole, French, Spanish and English. Early Haitians did not find it easy to speak and write in all four languages. They also felt that these languages, namely French, Spanish and English, were imposed on them. This is why Haitians find it very hard to understand missionaries and those who bring the Word in other languages. The communication dilemma makes victims of those who would be followers.
Education at all levels plays a major role in church relations. In Haiti, most (and certainly the best ones) of schools are run by nuns, priests and pastors. We must reeducate church leaders to teach a new approach to pastoral, evangelistic and ministerial care. In this quest to solve the dilemma, this thesis explains the many limiting beliefs that Haitians hold. Their own fear of black divinity pushes them away from answers. This thesis will describe Haiti and the many barriers to its development.Dr. William F. Brosend II and Dr. Benjamin John King, School of Theolog