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Spring 2023 Capstone presentation schedules from PLU Global Studies graduating seniors.
McDonaldThe Real Price of Fast Fashion: Examining the Environmental Degradation and Human Rights Violations Caused By The 'Throwaway' Business ModelMay 25, 202310:30 - Maggie Niebeger11:00 - Sheridan Moore11:30 - Hannah Harvey10:30 - Maggie NiebegerQuestioning the Universality of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The impact of Christian Moral Theology on the UDHR11:00 - Sheridan MooreA Temporary Welcome: The Rising Use of Temporary Protection Programs as an Alternative to Refugee
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Mention the word “vocation” to a group of people, and you’re likely to get a wide variety of definitions.
these definitions contain some aspects of vocation, they do not completely encompass the understanding that pervades Lutheran institutions of higher education. In Luther’s time, “vocation” was understood to apply only to those called to religious service. That is, only priests, monks, nuns and others called “away from the world” to serve God had a “true” vocation. Part of Luther’s reformation offered a radical redefinition of the popular term “vocation.” A human being is not called away from this
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Professor Emeritus | Religion | oakmande@plu.edu | The Reverend Doctor Douglas E.
studies, such as: “Was the Galilean Economy Oppressive or Prosperous? Socio-Archaeology and Dimensions of Exploitation in First-Century Palestine” (2014); “Execrating? or Execrable Peasants!” (2013); “The Shape of Power and Political-Economy in Herodian Galilee,” Liberating Biblical Study: Scholarship, Art, and Action in Honor of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice” (2011); “The Perennial Relevance of St. Paul”; and “The Radical Jesus: You Cannot Serve God and Mammon” (2004
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Assistant Vice President for Student Life Strategic Initiatives and Assessment | Division of Student Life | jes.takla@plu.edu | 253-535-7597
, Decolonizing, & Queering Praxes [Conference session; co-presented with Harris, N. R., Plascencia Saldana, B., & Pierre, D.], Virtual (2024, February) NASPA Western Regional Conference, Radical imagination and critical creativity praxis for liberatory futures [Conference session; co-presented with Harris, N. R., & Plascencia Saldana, B.], Anaheim, CA (2022, November) ASHE Annual Conference, Bringing the literature to life through storytelling praxis: From scholarship to collective action [Conference session
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Originally Published in 1990 It would appear that Louis XIV never said: “L’ état, c’est moi.” The researches of modern historians have produced no credible witness attesting that France’s Sun King pronounced this coldly witty laconism. But just try to find a modern history of…
? Over the last twenty-five years a radical challenge to the notion of historical knowledge has emerged. A body of work has grown up around the problem of the relation of historical understanding to narrative, conceived as a literary form. In 1973, Hayden White published Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, an extended attempt to analyze how what we may call the literary imagination influences the shaping of traditional historical narrative. Artifacts from the Harstad
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Lutheran Studies at PLU welcomes students, faculty, staff, and alumni into this global network, into the significant dialogue between cultures as we engage the pressing economic, political, and
The 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference More Information Lutheran Studies at Pacific Lutheran UniversityPLU has been a lively center for the study of Lutheran higher education and the global Lutheran tradition since its beginnings in 1890. Distinguished lecturers, undergraduate courses in history, music, scripture, theology, and the visual arts, study away classes in Germany, Namibia, and Norway, campus ministry workshops, faith and reason dialogues, faculty publications and public
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Thursday, September 25, 2014 Justice in Society: Lutheran Sources of Social Change PLU 2020 underscored the ancient mandate to act with justice and resist evil, but what “justice” might actually
University Dr. Moe-Lobeda is Associate Professor of Theological and Social Ethics at Seattle University and teaches in its Department of Theology and Religious Studies and the School of Theology and Ministry. A theological consultant to the presiding bishop of the ELCA, she holds the doctorate from Union Theological Seminary New York. Among her many works, she is author of Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation. 5:00 Conference reception and banquet 7:00 Embodying Justice
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Below are a variety of readings, podcasts, websites, and videos to help prepare for the end of life. Liturgies for the end of life (ELCA) from In Sure and Certain Hope: A Funeral Sourcebook (Augsburg
accepting grace when hope is all you’ve got. The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us about Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski (Flatiron Books, 2017) An exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves. Frank Ostaseski distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering an evocative and stirring guide that points to a radical path to transformation. The Denial of Death, 50th
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The 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference is titled “Where the Waters Begin: Indigenous Education, Tribal Sovereignty, and the Legacy of Cecelia Svinth Carpenter.” This year’s conference will honor the life, work, and commitments of PLU alumna Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, connecting PLU’s past, present, and future…
conference will welcome candid discussions about the ELCA’s work in the Truth and Healing Movement. The conference website highlights that the Lutheran tradition “lifts up radical love while also encouraging honest acknowledgment of the ways we harm ourselves, each other, and the Earth, and this conference likewise combines celebration and accountability.” × Conference Highlights The day will feature panels, presentations, guest speakers, and the sharing of food, song, and dance, all celebrating Cecelia
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | College of Liberal Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
Pennsylvania Press 2015) : View Book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Authority of Scripture Chapters 4, pgs. 71-90 (Pickwick Publications 2011) : View Book Diversity and Dominion: Dialogues in Ecology, Ethics, and Theology Chapters 14, pgs. 157-165 (Wipf & Stock 2010) : View Book Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the New South Chapters 13, pgs. 246-268 (University of Georgia Press 2009) : View Book Biography Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year
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