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Emerson on Love
Full text linkMediocre people want to be loved. True people are lovely. -Ralph Waldo Emerson When I first discovered Emerson\u27s two-part understanding I was caught short, thinking of the implications
The Quest for Wholeness
Full text linkThe articles in this volume of the IJSL, like the articles we’ve been honored to publish throughout the journal’s history, are bold, transgressive, and aimed at decentralizing dominant-culture narratives. As people, Shann Ray Ferch, IJSL editor-in-chief, believes that we are specific and universal, beautiful, tragic, met with fracture, met with fusion, triumphant, graceful, traumatized, deeply harmed, lovely, and graceful. The collective presence of the articles published in this volume are guided by similar beliefs, addressing the call given by Seattle writer and National Book Award winner Charles Johnson (Middle Passage) who asks, “How do we portray the racial, cultural, gender, and class Other? It’s very important that we make this attempt given our goal of truly becoming a multicultural society.
Devoted to Healing the Heart of the World
Full text linkIn receiving the following narratives of the work of Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL) from around the globe, I noticed a deep sense of hunger for the health and well-being of all humanity. This hunger, a seeking and restorative sense of hope and gladness at the heart of people, was pervasive, elegant, incisive, and beautiful in each interview. By setting out to listen to the lives of those working on the front lines of refugee, poverty-ridden, and displaced populations globally, the gift they gave to me personally, to the world of ideas, and the more important world of action is both uncommon and necessary for the good will of people, families, communities, cultures, and nations
The Servant-Leader as Healer
Full text linkWhen the phone call from my mother came it made everything seem far away. She told me my cousin, Jacine, a beautiful and intelligent young woman, had been killed in a drug shootout in the streets of Billings, Montana. Jade\u27s life had been marred for some time by the hardened culture that haunts drug use everywhere, but of late she had emerged, married, and begun a new purchase on the kind of life she wanted. We all hoped so much for her, the shock of her death came like a cold dark undertow. But in the days ahead there would be little time to grieve or even gather to collectively remember her life. The man who murdered her had not been found and the event took the imagination of the city by storm, appearing in the local news for more than a year. It was not until after a long arduous passage that life seemed to return to a semblance of normalcy and the family began to come together again, though with a heavy underline of sorrow. We all tried to move on from an experience that had shattered us, but at the heart of it was something we stepped delicately around: our grief, our vulnerability...our brokenness
Interview with Co-founder Mary McFarland
Full text linkDr. McFarland is co-founder of McFarland Consulting where she is engaged in a number of projects serving higher education at the margins, and teaching graduate courses for Georgetown University. She served as the first International Director (President) for Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL) Higher Education at the Margins from 2010 to 2016. Prior to that she was Dean of the School of Professional Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA, and she has held a number of leadership positions in higher education including department chair, chair of faculty senate, and full professor
Colloquium Servant-Leadership Interviews
Full text linkThe Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL) Colloquium is a group of PhD candidates and others united in providing equitable high quality tertiary learning to people and communities at the margins of societies. These margins, indicated by poverty, location, lack of opportunity, conflict, or forced displacement, define the nature of our shared sense of sisterhood and brotherhood worldwide. The JWL mission and works of mission, enacted daily throughout the world, fulfill Greenleaf’s best test of servant-leadership, bringing greater wisdom, health, autonomy, freedom and service to others, and helps bring about Greenleaf’s notion that the least privileged of society are benefitted and not further deprived. Please read the following biographies and accompanying narratives in the spirit they were given: humbly, and with grace, fortitude and kindness
An Introduction to the 19th Volume
No full textThis year’s volume of the International Journal of Servant- Leadership (IJSL) is a collaboration of heart, mind, and spirit, both personal and international, and finds its footing in what philosophers refer to as the transcendentals: beauty, goodness, and truth. The root etymology of collaboration is lovely
Interview with Executive President Fr. Peter Balleis, SJ
Full text linkFr. Peter Balleis, SJ, a leading advocate of refugee and forcibly displaced persons’ rights, has been fighting for human rights and social justice for more than 20 years. As executive president of Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL), Fr. Peter works toward a more peaceful world using the power of education
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