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Interview with John Rife
No full textThis video features an interview with John Rife, founder and owner of the East End Market in Orlando, Florida. Includes a discussion of the concepts of food hub, last mile, and local food.
Teaching Method: An excellent real-world example to complement discussions of the local food movement.Associated Colleges of the Sout
Solar Spiders: Green Schools FYS
No full textYouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EAJuLSQia8A student-made video promoting solar education at the University of Richmond.
Teaching Method: Generated as part of a class assignment to promote renewable energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EAJuLSQia8Associated Colleges of the Sout
A Night to Remember: Cultural Representations of the Titanic in 1950s America
No full textWhen Titanic's journey as an ocean liner tragically ended in 1912, its journey as a cultural medium through which different generations have reflected, reconstructed, and interpreted its narrative and its meanings through their own cultural lens. Thus, cultural representations of the Titanic prove to be valuable sources of cultural history. This study centers on cultural representations of the Titanic in the 1950s, specifically focusing on the 1953 Oscar winning film, Titanic, Walter Lord's 1955 best-selling account of the wreck, A Night to Remember, and its subsequent film and television adaptions. In a post-wear world, the age of anxiety, Titanic became a vessel through which issues of gender, family, and nation were discussed and certain views were propagated. These representations of the thought-to-be "unsinkable" passenger liner were bound by the contexts they were created in and provide a useful and valuable insight into the issues facing society and the psyche of the nation in the 1950s.Dr. Julie Beribitsk
Renewable Energy in the South: A Policy Brief
Get PDFTeaching method: Background information; sample policy brief to have students update or apply elsewhere.This working paper assesses the economic potential of renewable electricity generation in the South under alternative policy scenarios. Using a customized version of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), we examine the impact of 1) expanded and updated estimates of renewable resources, 2) a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), and 3) a Carbon-Constrained Future (CCF). Under the Expanded Renewables Scenario, renewable electricity generation doubles the output of the Reference forecast for the South. If a Federal RPS is imposed or the policies represented by our CCF scenario are implemented, we estimate that 15% to 30% of the South’s electricity could be generated from renewable sources. Among the renewable resources, wind, biomass, and hydro are anticipated to provide the most generation potential. As the integration of renewable sources expands through the modeled time horizon, wind gradually out-competes biomass in the renewable electricity market. Cost-effective customer-owned renewables could also contribute significantly to electricity generation by 2030 in the South, under supportive policies.Georgia Institute of Technology; Duke Universit
Responsive rather than Emergent: Intentional Episcopal Liturgy for the 21st Century
Get PDFWith the rise of emerging churches greater attention has been paid to the liturgy
of The Episcopal Church; rather than attempt to be emergent, The Episcopal Church is
positioned to continue its long standing tradition of liturgical adaptation to be responsive
to the needs of the 21st century. An understanding of the Anglican tradition of liturgical
adaptation provides Anglican principles of liturgical change and a firm foundation for
crafting responsive liturgy.
The paper begins with an in-depth look at the emerging church phenomenon and
what the issues raised by the emergence of these communities have to teach those in
mainstream liturgical traditions about the changing needs of contemporary culture.
Following this introduction to emerging churches is a discussion of liturgical
inculturation inherent in the development of early Christian liturgy primarily through the
expertise of Anscar Chupungco and the work of the liturgical movement leading up to
Sacrosanctum Concilium of Vatican II. From this look at early liturgical development the
paper then considers the development of Anglican liturgy, specifically the ways in which
Anglican liturgy has been adapted throughout history to meet the changing needs of the
world. The purpose of this exploration is to show that not only is liturgical adaptation
inherently Anglican, but also to discover the foundational Anglican principles for
liturgical change.
With these principles established, the paper proposes a tool or outline for clergy
who wish to offer liturgy that is responsive to the world and is still in-keeping with the
liturgical principles of The Episcopal Church. This tool serves as a guide to evaluate new
liturgies that are coming from other sources, such as Emerging Churches, as well as
provides a guideline for those wanting to craft liturgy for their parishes in a manner that
is both responsible to the tradition of the church and responsive to the needs of the 21st
century. As the weekly Eucharist is the most frequent rite celebrated in the majority of
parishes within The Episcopal Church at this moment in our history, this endeavor
focuses on the eucharistic rite in particular. The paper concludes with an appendix that
includes some practical ways in which these liturgical principles have been applied
successfully.The Rt. Rev. J. Neil Alexande
Urbanism in Orlando
Get PDFYoutube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJWDhr9DQQLecture presented to Urban Think contrasting urban development in Orlando with that of Portland, Oregon
Sustainability in the ACS: Furman University
Get PDFThis record represents a Youtube video which you can access through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkbGUIRcM8A&list=PLwuab1ZTDczStvDUUIJaRZjjabuGQyQdp&index=2A 2014 student video highlighting sustainability initiatives on the campus of Furman University
A Narrative Account of the Soul
Get PDFThe question of the soul in modern debates about anthropology betrays the determinative narrative of the age and its correlative metaphysics. The metaphysical commitments of much of modern science and philosophy have not only provided the foundation for the debates between physicalism and dualism, but they have set the discussion within the bounds of that debate. Theology, for its part, has largely allowed the resulting narrative to shape its own reflections on anthropology but with the addition of “God” as a character or “the spiritual” as a kind of plot device that the secular versions of the story have overlooked. For this reason, talk about the soul has become problematic for some Christian philosophers and theologians who think they recognize the-writing-on-the-wall as dualism seems to lose more and more ground to physicalism by way of advances in neuroscience.
This thesis reveals the metaphysical commitments of modern science and reductionist philosophy by exploring the work of one its most prolific and well-known spokesmen, Daniel Dennett. After that, the thesis turns to the past, to see how theology
has out-narrated past philosophical rivals by incorporating their best insights without abandoning Christian metaphysical claims. Accounts of the soul in Tertullian, the Cappadocians, Augustine and Thomas Aquinas provide the case study from Christian history that reveals this process. In light of this history, the thesis then turns a critical eye toward the modern Christian philosophical anthropologies of Lynne Rudder Baker and Nancey Murphy, which have intentionally rejected the soul as a result of the dialogue with science and modern philosophy of mind.
This thesis argues that a truly nonreductive physicalism demands metaphysical commitments that become intelligible in a narrative such as that of the Christian tradition, a tradition that is not essentially dualistic in its anthropology but gives an account of creation that provides for the reality of such things as bodies, persons, words, and stories as gifts whose being is contingent on God given through the Incarnation, the narrative of which provides not only being but meaning. And such a realist account of these things is, therefore, necessary for any meaningful discussion of consciousness as an aspect of human physicality and the formative narrative of that physicality, its soul.Professor Robert C. MacSwain; Professor Robert D. Hughes, II
Mental Illness and Belonging: A Pastor's Inquiry
No full textThis project consists of qualitative research and analysis that started with the following question: What, from the perspective of people with mental illness makes a church feel welcoming and safe or otherwise? The primary sources of data are recorded and transcribed conversations with twelve people (herein referred to as “consultants”), each of whom lives with a chronic mental illness and is associated with Holy Comforter Church, a mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, along with observations of the researcher. The project rests on the hypothesis that qualitative research into the experiences of people with mental illness can provide pastoral and theological insight to help Holy Comforter and other parishes become more physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually accessible to people with mental illness. This paper reports key learnings from this research and explores theological and pastoral issues raised by these learnings with the goal of couching practical wisdom for achieving such inclusion within a Christian understanding of God’s work in the world.
Over twenty-five years ago, Holy Comforter, a small, urban parish in Atlanta, embarked on a journey toward becoming a safe and welcoming community for people with mental illness. More than half of its regular worshippers are people with mental illness. Most subsist on a small disability check and live in group homes. Since 1997, it has operated a day program for people with mental illness, called the
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Friendship Center. This program serves seventy-five to a hundred people with a variety of activities that support wellness and recovery, including gardening, studio arts, meals, clothes closet, health monitoring, music, yoga, games, and field trips. It is managed by a small professional staff, which coordinates the work of about seventy-five volunteers. The researcher has been Vicar of the parish and Director of the Friendship Center since 2006.
Analysis of the conversations reveals that the key issue for the consultants is better understood in terms of belonging, rather than welcome and safety, and prompts this restatement of the research question: What, from the perspective of the consultants, has helped them to feel that they have, or have not, belonged in and to a particular community of faith or to feel that they have been welcome, or not welcome, to belong in a new community?
Using primarily the words of the consultants, the report presents a thick description of how belonging or not belonging has felt to the consultants in terms of key factors that have contributed to their sense of belonging or not belonging. Framed as questions that a person with mental illness might ask concerning her relationship with a church, the following key factors affecting whether one feels belonging surface in the conversations:
1. Participation: Am I invited and empowered to participate fully in the life and work of the community?
2. Regard: How does the community regard me and my participation?
3. Understanding: Is the community open to understanding me and my mental illness, or does it yield to the stigma of mental illness?The Rev. Dr. Robert Davis Hughes III, School of Theology and Dr. Helen V. Bateman, Department of Psycholog