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who is different from you. Someone of a different race, someone of a different religion, gender, even generation, just someone different from you, who you may even hold a bias toward, show an act of love to them …” as Alana said, “we want to change people’s hearts, and that’s how we intend on doing it, by getting the masses to participate in love.” Thanks to the help and sponsorship of PLU, Bethlehem Baptist Church, St Marks’s by the Narrows Lutheran Church, and a host of others, Tacoma became the

the liberal arts—A basic understanding of history, language, art, religion, culture, ethics, philosophy and science is a foundation for all more specialized knowledge, c.f., PLU’s ROTC program. Learning and research within community—Nobody pursues an education alone. We were meant to collaborate with each other. It’s built into our DNA. Even an online course assumes there’s someone on the other end helping to lead and guide us while we study in front of our laptop. The intrinsic value of the whole

characters have been my friends, my professors and supervisors, and most importantly, my family. I have never felt alone at PLU as professors and staff have welcomed me into their lives, my friends have supported my endeavors, and my family has been my rock through it all. What’s next? After graduation I will be teaching special education in an elementary school in the Clover Park School District in Tacoma, Wash. Riley Hoyer – Bachelor of Science in biology, minor in religion Riley Hoyer ’12 is from

intellectual rigor as it was about religion. With his fellow reformer, Philip Melanchton, Luther established the German pattern of secondary and tertiary education upon which the American system was modeled in the later nineteenth century. Professor Luther’s Reform of both faith and education came about as a result of his asking troubling questions, for which he got into trouble. Luther and Melanchthon have shown us that colleges and universities are, and must remain, places to ask troubling questions, to

silent. Some shook their heads in disbelief. Others wore expressions of shock. Two couldn’t stop tears from streaming down their rain-soaked cheeks.“We Americans have always been a forward-looking, problem-solving, optimistic, patriotic and decent people,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), delivering remarks at the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The crowd of more than a quarter million people listened quietly. “Whatever our race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, whether we are

working for the United Nations. RACHEL ESPASANDIN Hometown: Vancouver, Wash. Major: Political Science, with minors in Religion and Conflict Resolution. Graduation date: May 2014. Peace-building experience: Espasandin participated in PLU’s Alternative Spring Break trip to a remote village in Nicaragua, where a team partnered with a nonprofit to install a clean-water well. That might not sound like a typical peace-building activity, but Espasandin says it absolutely is. “A lot of conflict can erupt if

words, as large as a human teenager’s. Third, we used the narratives of our experiences and our photography to write several articles, exploring complex relations between the legal trade and the illegal trade. The legal trade, for example, offers cover for the illegal smuggling of birds, and the same people are often involved in both. Seth Dowland, Ph.D., and Clayton Bracht Department of Religion Sports, Christianity, and Manliness:  Evolving Notions of Christian Manhood in the YMCA Kelmer-Roe

professor of religion, published “An Ethics of Biodiversity: Christianity, Ecology and the Variety of Life.” Joanna Gregson, associate professor of sociology, had her book, “The Culture of Teenage Mothers,” published by State University of New York Press. Charles Bergman, professor of English, published a Smithsonian Magazine cover story and essay on “Wildlife Trafficking.” Rick Barot, assistant professor of English, received an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. Dean Waldow