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Corey Johnson Living Memoirs Interview
Get PDFCorey, a Southern alum, shared about his time as a teacher at Palau SDA Elementary as a P.E. teacher. He shared about his career journey and how it has led him to pursue his degree today. He describes his year transforming his perspective on evangelism in the Adventist church.
Palau is an island country in the western Pacific Ocean located in the southwest corner of Micronesia. Palau consists of eight inhabited islands, and the primary languages are Palauan and English. Over 5% of the population is Seventh-day Adventist (as of 2020), and the islands are known for their marine life and coral reefs.
Shuster, Donald Raymond and Foster, Sophie. Palau . Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Oct. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/place/Palau. Accessed 15 November 2023.
Views expressed do not represent Southern Adventist University or McKee Library but are the personal opinions of the interviewed individual
Horatio Alger, Adolescent Purpose, and the Dignity of Work
No full textScholars often argue that Horatio Alger’s “rags-to-riches” novels for boys fictionalize and glamorize key values of the Protestant ethic, described by Max Weber as a religious “duty of the individual toward the increase of his capital, which is assumed as an end in itself, … combined with the strict avoidance of all spontaneous enjoyment of life.” This assessment leads to a quick ideological dismissal of the novels, joined with an even quicker aesthetic dismissal of Alger’s formulaic characters and improbable plots.
However, I would like to propose at least an ideological (if not an aesthetic) reevaluation of Alger’s Ragged Dick novels, a series of four books for boys, published between 1867 and 1869. The son of a unitarian minister, himself with some seminary training, Alger writes with a keen sense of the dignity of work, the centrality of relationships, and the importance of purpose for teenage boys. This message should strike today’s reader as particularly timely. American men disproportionately suffer from under-employment and social isolation, and even from so-called “deaths of despair” linked to alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide. Adolescent males are likewise falling behind in multiple arenas, from educational attainment to social connection.
In the face of today’s cultural crisis surrounding masculinity, Alger’s works show a different model: working-class adolescent males forsaking the aimless street life of their childhood and pursuing a particular calling within a particular community. Moreover, while Alger’s novels portray money as a largely positive force, they do not portray money as the ultimate good. More valuable by far are central Christian values of work, honesty, and relationship. In this way, Alger’s works may actually portray a principled, socially-embedded alternative to today’s hyper-individualized adolescence
Magnolias II
No full textWatercolor painting displayed on the 2nd floor of McKee Library during the Fall 2024 semester.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/lashtonexhibit/1000/thumbnail.jp
Nashville\u27s Newest
No full textAcrylic on stained wood displayed on the Main Floor of McKee Library during the fall 2024 semester.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/kbrobstexhibit/1014/thumbnail.jp
Rhodies of West Virginia
No full textPastel painting displayed on the 2nd floor of McKee Library during the Fall 2024 semester.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/lashtonexhibit/1005/thumbnail.jp
When Less Moves More
Get PDF“So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” (Luke 17:6)
It is not how much faith you have but what you have your faith in that makes the difference
The wisdom and power of God from atom to cosmos
No full textGod’s wisdom & power shown at ~60 levels (powers of 10): from the sub-sub-sub-atomic to the cosmological. Words fail us, we have to use numbers (math!) – “powers of 10”. At each “scale” we marvel: How great is God! Invited presentation for Southern Africa Indian Ocean Division / Geoscience Research Institute Joint Conference: Biblical Foundations & the Study of Nature, Johannesburg, South Africa: July 15 - 20, 2024
Enumerating Primitive Pythagorean Triples
No full textAll primitive Pythagorean triples (PPTs) are generated using an enumeration that highlights certain meaningful patterns. However this algorithm produces some nonprimitive Pythagorean triples; these are referred to here as near-primitive Pythagorean triples (NPPTs). All PPTs and NPPTs are shown graphically as points on upward-opening parabolic curves, for which a simple integer-valued function is given below. Analysis identifies the exact requirements for a PT to be an NPPT
McKee Minute December 2024/January 2025
Get PDFThe December 2024 McKee Minute features information on returning library materials, Karaoke and game night, Christmas break hours, and library apps
Life Over God
Get PDF“Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.” Numbers 20:10-12, ESV.
Life Over Go