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Visiting Christian Scholar: Dr. Matthew Dickerson
No full textDr. Matthew Dickerson speaks on the inherent value of humans as being created by God as part of the Visiting Christian Scholar program.
Matthew Dickerson is an author, songwriter, and Middlebury College professor. His books include works of historical fiction, fantasy, narrative non-fiction nature-writing, fly-fishing and outdoor writing, biography, Christian apologetics, and eco-critical and mythopoeic scholarship focusing on J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. As a songwriter his interests are in Americana and roots gospel, though he has also garnered airplay for his blues. He has a wife of twenty-seven years, three sons, a daughter-in-law, one dog, one cat, and about 30,000 bees
Matthew ”Matt” Taylor WPHNM Oral History Video Interview
No full textMatthew “Matt” Taylor grew up in La Jara New Mexico. In the early 1970s, Taylor started an apprenticeship with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW Local 611 . In 1973, Taylor was injured on the job and became paralyzed. Taylor noted the support of his Union brothers as he recovered. It was during this time that NM State Federation of Labor President Neal Gonzales lined him up with a job working for the national AFL-CIO as a bilingual Union Organizer in the Western US region. Going to work at the Four Corners power plant in San Juan NM, Taylor finished his IBEW apprenticeship. Taylor credits his participation in classes at the Rocky Mountain Labor School where he met his mentor Gracie Carroll as an inspiration for his Union organizing career with the AFL-CIO as well as his commitment to the Labor movement. His first campaign was the 1977 Coors Plant in Golden CO strike of the Brewery Workers’ Union. This boycott of Coors paralleled with the United Farmworkers’ UFW national grape boycott. Taylor also worked with Cesar Chavez and the UFW. Additional Labor organizing efforts included: 1980s American Federation of Teachers and NEA agreement, the NM 1199 organizing campaign at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Santa Fe NM, the 1980 PATCO strike, the CA Machinists (IAM) in the 2000s in Compton at the American Racing Wheel factory. Taylor spent time in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Having participated in many major Labor struggles, Taylor sees his life as a Union man in solidarity with Union workers in struggle for a better world.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1075/thumbnail.jp
Ep. #068 - Matthew Taylor
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Dominic and Cymene talk diet soda, dementia and the art of titling books and then (13:40) we welcome to the pod UNC English professor Matthew Taylor, author of Universes without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature (U Minnesota Press, 2013), to talk about, among other things, the ethics and politics of posthumanism. Matt shares thoughts about how posthumanism can veer into superhumanism and on how both ecophobia and ecophilia are entwined in our thinking about the Anthropocene. We touch on Edgar Allan Poe’s dark ecology, race and imperialism, Christianity, growth metaphysics and whether there has been a distinctively American contribution to Anthropocene philosophy. We turn from there to questions of ethics and agency and Matt’s current work on the problems of equating politics with action. Matt argues that doing less may be precisely what we need to move forward. We talk about narrative as experimentation, the narrative beats of Anthropocene discourse and the promises and perils of speciesism. Matt shares with us what he finds exciting in science fiction and we close on his thoughts on teaching critical thinking at a public university in an age of alternative facts
Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety – A Tercentenary Celebration
No full textThe summer of 2014 marked the tercentenary of the death of Matthew Henry (1662–1714), a leading figure among early eighteenth-century Dissenters and author of the six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1707–1714/25). This monumental work, which by 1855 had already been published in twenty-five different editions, attempted a peculiarly practical approach to the biblical text and continues to be widely used and readily accessible even today in both print and online versions. The theme of foreign (or ‘strange’) wives and Israelite intermarriage is one which occurs throughout the Hebrew Bible and, accordingly, throughout Matthew Henry’s commentary upon it. Where it appears, the practice of intermarriage is characterized by Henry as (at best) unwise and (at worst) a very real threat to both social and religious cohesion. This essay explores how Henry deals with the issue of ‘strange wives’, why he believes they continue to pose a threat, and (in view of the overall intention of his commentary) what ‘practical observations’ he offers to his reader as a result. In doing so it is argued that Henry’s commentary traces a thematic thread from the ante-diluvian age to the post-exilic period of calamities resulting from mixed marriages between ‘professors of religion’ and their ‘strange wives’
Interview with Matthew Taylor
No full textMatthew Taylor, Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister between 2005 and 2007 explains the importance of stakeholder and media strategies adopted by the Turner Pensions Commission
The Echo: November 9,1979
No full textSalter to Speak on Lewis – Purple and Gold Scrimmage – Chapel Speakers – Senate Elections Close In – Women’s Concerns at Taylor – It Is a Time for Healing – Sharing—Paul’s Third Priority – SGO Spotlight – Organizations Committee – The Road Not Taken – Vulnerability vs. Charity: Which Way to the Hospital? – Holy Obligation—Part III – Taylor’s Winning Weekend – The Imperials Keeping Up with the Times – Album Review – Matthew Ward Gone Solo – TU Band & Jazz Tuesday – First Time Ever – Taylor Runners Capture “Magic Three” – Soccer: The Game of America’s Future – Taylor Subdues Earlham – Field Hockey #1 in State! – Soccer in America – Volleyball Tea in State Tourneyhttps://pillars.taylor.edu/echo-1979-1980/1008/thumbnail.jp
Britton, Taylor Matthew interview
No full textOral history interview of Matthew Taylor Britton (Ward Britt). Interview conducted by John Murphy at the West Orange Country Club. Interview topics include early experiences with military service, wartime experience, life in the military, after military service, and later years
Citation expectations: are they realized? Study of the Matthew index for Russian papers published abroad
No full textWe consider the "Matthew effect" in the citation process which leads to reallocation (or misallocation) of the citations received by scientific papers within the same journals. The case when such reallocation correlates with a country where an author works is investigated. Russian papers in chemistry and physics published abroad were examined. We found that in both disciplines in about 60% of journals Russian papers are cited less than average ones. However, if we consider each discipline as a whole, citedness of a Russian paper in physics will be on the average level, while chemistry publications receive about 16% citations less than one may expect from the citedness of the journals where they appear. Moreover, Russian chemistry papers mostly become undercited in the leading journals of the field. Characteristics of a "Matthew index" indicator and its significance for scientometric studies are also discussed
Bob Donati oversees his grandson cutting the polenta with a piece of string, Sydney, 2005 [picture] /
No full textTitle from reproduction in Qui e lì = Here and there : a photo essay on the life and hometowns of Italian Australians. Sydney : Red Egg Publishing, 2006, p. [63].; Inscriptions: "Bob Donati watches his grandson Matthew with polenta. JB Taylor 07"--In pencil on back of photograph.; Part of the collection: Qui e lì photograph collection, Australia, 2005-2006.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3993244-s2
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