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Applying for Graduate School in PhysicsSo you think you want to go to graduate school in physics? Great! This is meant to be a guide to help you think through the process and outline the steps you will need to take as you begin this path. Reflection: Before You Begin Why do you want to go to graduate school? What should you expect in physics graduate school? These are some questions you should begin asking yourself, though you don’t need to have all the answers yet. Below are some resources to

Appreciations: In Recognition of Mark JensenMark Jensen began his career in the French Program at PLU in 1989, fresh from Berkeley. A specialist of nineteenth-century French literature but polymath at heart, Mark wrote his dissertation on Alfred de Vigny’s historical fiction and is a leading scholar of Paul Bénichou, a preeminent critic of French Romanticism. Mark translated, with characteristic precision and elegance, several of Bénichou’s works from French into English–notably The

Expanding the Mind in German StudiesThe German word for the humanities is die Geisteswissenschaften – literally translated, the sciences of the spirit or of the mind. The term, coined by the historian Wilhelm Dilthey in the 19th century, has its roots in the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s concept of “Geist” as a superindividual cultural consciousness. (In English we encounter the German loan word “Geist” in the term Zeitgeist, which describes the spirit of a particular

As scholars of the Humanities in the 21st century we find ourselves working in unusual settings. Places of faith and worship, educational contexts like high schools and public libraries, in newspapers, in comment forums, on radio shows, our “workplaces” often do not resemble the ivory towers of old.Vignette #1 Prime Time Family Reading Night I ask the question again… “what are symbols and why are they important?” My audience, a mix of children ages 6 to 10 and their families, settle into the

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Ministry in a Secular Age: Sharing in the Experience of the Ministering God after a PandemicMay 25, June 1, and June 8, 2021 at 3:30pm PST The turn into a more secular and less traditionally religious culture is no news to us in ministry in the Pacific Northwest. Yet we also know that God is very much active and moving in this time and place, and our congregations often struggle to understand where we fit in to God’s ministry in our lives and in our communities.SpeakerLearn about the speakers

Who are the Priesthood of All Believers?Calling & Supporting Lay Leadership in Congregational Life2019 Summer Conference in Pastoral TheologyJune 17-19, 2019Join Assistant Professor of Educational Ministry and Practical Theology at Seattle Pacific University, Dr. Katherine Douglass, along with PLU Professors Marit Trelstad and Samuel Torvend for the 2019 Summer Conference in Pastoral Theology. This event is designed for pastors and congregational leaders, both paid and unpaid, who want to