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  • Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | Gender, Sexuality, and Race 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.

    Rise of the Christian Right (University of 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 Selected Presentations American

  • Director of IHON | International Honors | 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.

    Government End Times? Pray for the Individual The New Dominionist Politics Books Gods, Games, and Globalization: New Perspectives on Religion and Sports Chapters 3, pgs. 58-73 (Mercer University Press 2019) : View Book Billy Graham: American Pilgrim Chapters 9, pgs. 216-231 (Oxford University Press 2017) : View Book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and American Politics Chapters 19, pgs. 225-236 (Wiley-Blackwell 2016) : View Book Family Values: Gender, Authority, and the Rise of the Christian

  • Director, IHON | Interdisciplinary Programs | 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.

    Government End Times? Pray for the Individual The New Dominionist Politics Books Gods, Games, and Globalization: New Perspectives on Religion and Sports Chapters 3, pgs. 58-73 (Mercer University Press 2019) : View Book Billy Graham: American Pilgrim Chapters 9, pgs. 216-231 (Oxford University Press 2017) : View Book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and American Politics Chapters 19, pgs. 225-236 (Wiley-Blackwell 2016) : View Book Family Values: Gender, Authority, and the Rise of the Christian

  • Knutson Lecture

    church to the climate crisis. The lecture explores tensions between patriotism and resistance and considers how God is at work in the world today among all who are striving for climate justice.BiographyRev. Dr. James B. Martin-Schramm ’81, Professor Emeritus of Religion Luther College, Decorah, Iowa I joined the Religion faculty at Luther College in 1993. I am an ordained member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and have a doctorate in Christian Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in

  • Next of kin: the ethics of eating, capturing, and experimenting on great apes One of the pressing problems of our times is the future of the great apes. All of the great apes – chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans – are endangered. Their habitat is…

    July 7, 2008 Next of kin: the ethics of eating, capturing, and experimenting on great apes One of the pressing problems of our times is the future of the great apes. All of the great apes – chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans – are endangered. Their habitat is quickly shrinking, but more urgent, their numbers are fast approaching an unsustainable low. Currently, the main threat is the bush-meat trade (which also involves the logging of African forests). It is now thought that the

  • SOCW 101 : Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare - ES An introduction to human need and the field of social work.

    Social Work (SOCW) - UndergraduateSOCW 101 : Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare – ES An introduction to human need and the field of social work. Provides an overview of services, models of service delivery, and professional social work values. Students visit agency settings and meet with social work practitioners. A volunteer experience in the field is a required component of this seminar-style course. (4) SOCW 175 : January on the Hill – VW, GE An intense experience of service and

  • Dr. Sergia Hay, Seminar in Philosophy This year’s philosophy capstone course investigated a frequently used and criticized philosophical method: thought experiments.

    critical diagnosis of the Judeo-Christian origin of our modern morality. Ultimately, I find Nietzsche’s approach to ethics more agreeable and appropriate for answering the fundamental question asked by my thought experiment: what is the correct moral foundation for our actions, and where does the interest of an individual human fit into the entire schema of reality when we approach questions of morality? 4:00-4:20pm - ``Virtuous Living as the Way to Combating Climate Change`` Virak Pheng This paper

  • Fr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., of the history department at Boston College will speak about his explorations of a heretofore unknown set of intelligence relationships involving Nazi, British, and

    Save the Date: Raphael Lemkin Lecture - April 25, 2019 Violence, Espionage, & Anti-Semitism: British & Soviet Spy Ops Against Boston’s Christian Front Organization, 1940-1945 7 p.m. | Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | Anderson University Center – Scandinavian Cultural Center Free and Open to the Public Fr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., of the history department at Boston College will speak about his explorations of a heretofore unknown set of intelligence relationships involving Nazi, British, and Soviet

  • Philosophy involves inquiry about the most basic and compelling questions of life. German philosopher Immanuel Kant once summed up these questions in this way: “What can I know? What should I do?

    -authored with Greg Hibbard PLU ’15) Philosophy in the Contemporary World 2016 Greg Johnson: The Situated Self and Utopian Thinking. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (Summer 2002) On the Importance of Reversibility in Deliberative Democracy. Social Philosophy Today (Fall 2004) Pauline Shanks Kaurin: The Warrior, Military Ethics and Contemporary Warfare: Achilles Goes Asymmetric (Routledge 2014) Paul Menzel: Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care. (Oxford University Press) How

  • This conference focuses on “Black Bodies and the Justice of God” in the Lutheran tradition, in art, theology, ethics and literature.

    ``Black Bodies and the Justice of God``Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 The Eighth Annual Lutheran Studies ConferenceThis year’s Lutheran Studies Conference will take place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., concluding with a keynote lecture in the evening at 7 p.m. in the Chris Knutzen Hall, Anderson University Center. This conference focuses on “Black Bodies and the Justice of God” in the Lutheran tradition, in art, theology, ethics and literature. The conference also draws connection to the book Between the

    Dr. Marit Trelstad, University Chair in Lutheran Studies