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  • Shannon’s Story – Martinique, J-Term 2018 Anthropology (French and Religion minors) – Class of 2019 What she would like other students to know: Living with a host family was very different from what I have experienced before when travelling. I was able to connect and meet new people from different backgrounds way more easy than if we stayed in a hotel. One of my favourite parts of staying on island was the way life was more relaxed and easy going. A piece of advice to future study away students

  • faith in Victorian England through fiction, poetry, and nonfiction prose. We will explore how the Oxford Movement and dissenting (non-Anglican) denominations reshaped religious practice, and how scientific rationalism shifted attention from transcendent to material concerns. Along the way, we will come to appreciate the Victorian antecedents of many contemporary issues and movements, including social justice and environmental activism.IHON 257: Religion and ViolenceThis course examines the question

  • Student Financial Aid Complaint Policy and ProcedurePacific Lutheran University is committed to assisting all qualified and eligible students, regardless of race, creed, religion, gender, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or any status protected by law. Pacific Lutheran University has signed participation agreements with the U.S. Department of Education and with the Washington Student Achievement Council that allow our students to receive

  • - Excellence in Advising 2005 Biography Keith Cooper has been teaching at PLU since 1984. His graduate degrees in philosophy are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he also has a master’s degree in theology. His main areas of interest are the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science, especially the question of methodological parallels between metaphysical inquiry and scientific theorizing (e.g., abductive reasoning). Favorite courses, in addition to those areas, include Formal Logic and

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  • Wild Kinship: Disability Wisdom, Interdependence, and the Elemental World Julia Watts Belser, Professor of Jewish Studies and Disability Studies Core Faculty, Georgetown University 3:40 – 5:10 p.m. Regency Room, Anderson University Center Free and Open to the Public As part of the 11th Wang Symposium, “The Matter of Loneliness: Building Connections for Collective Well-Being,” PLU’s Department of Religion is happy to invite you to the 2024 Paul O. Ingram lecture. Wang Center Symposium: The

  • depths of the human experience. The social sciences inquire into the forces of society and culture. Music and art are practiced, composed, and crafted. All students take critically-sophisticated classes in philosophy and religion. One of the best and largest Departments of Religion in the West conducts inquiry across a broad range of sub-disciplines. Indeed, Pacific Lutheran rests within this robust intellectual tradition and its insistence on freedom of inquiry.

  • 1. Critical questioning of current knowledge and valuesA commitment to the advance of knowledge and skill is nothing new at a Lutheran university. Indeed, the Lutheran reform of education began with one sixteenth century professor’s doubts and questions concerning the received tradition of the previous three hundred years. While the dominant paradigm of religion informed almost every aspect of late medieval life and thought – including education – Martin Luther, among others, asked if that

  • March 7, 2008 Vote for the first Hebrew Idol In another PLU twist on Fox’s popular singing series “American Idol,” assistant religion professor Tony Finitsis is bringing “Hebrew Idol 2008” to campus. The event stems from the final project in his “Religion and Literature of the Old Testament” course. In groups, students are asked to reflect on the contemporary relevance of the Hebrew Bible and re-tell a biblical story set in modern times. In the past, students wrote papers, created PowerPoint

  • June 16, 2009 Matters of Faith By Patricia O’Connell Killen, Ph.D. Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Professor of Religion At PLU, students talk about spirituality. They think about the meaning of life – human experiences of love, joy, creativity, success, suffering, death, of making and keeping commitments, of extending oneself on behalf of others. Students grapple with the meaning of integrity. They seek to find a purpose, something that is, in the words of some of my former students

  • . “That’s what I’d encourage for students. Really follow your bliss.” Foster is now the co-owner of a community supported agriculture program, Zestful Gardens. Joining Foster were Stephen Alexander , who majored in anthropology and manages an offshore team in New Delhi, India for Russell Investments; Andrea Sander ’05, who majored in political science and English and is currently an attorney for Microsoft; and Kevin Anderson ’80, who majored in religion and is the president and CEO of Wesley Homes, a