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studying away on all seven continents, and one of eight groups posting to the Sojourner blog. Auxiliary services director Mark Mulder and assistant philosophy professor Brendan Hogan made the T-shirts as a way to achieve a group identity among the students. In the group’s few short weeks on the South American continent, it’s proven to be much more than a simple T-shirt, Mulder said. “It is a chance for students to identify with their role as Sojourners, as ambassadors of global citizenship, and to

during the Holocaust. No more than 11 percent of children sent to concentration camps survived, while as many as one in three adults survived to liberation. It’s because children had no value to the Nazis, Herschkowitz said. He was one of the lucky ones who survived. As a young child he escaped Belgium with both his parents to France. Once in unoccupied France, his family hid their identity as Jews by buying fake documents and sending Herschkowitz to a Catholic school. The time was confusing for him

the PLU identity and the PLU background are really needed to step up and just do it.” Read Previous Top marks for green Read Next Poetry to restore the complexity of the world COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24

research interests include modern Jewish identity formation and political self-representations, 1881-1948; art, politics, and culture; the politics of religion in Mandate Palestine; perceptions of social deviance among Jewry from early modern times to the present; Jews and German culture; ties between charity and nationalism; and modes of understanding and misunderstanding the Holocaust. Holocaust Studies Program at PLU This past Spring, at the annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference it was

. Other speakers include: Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion Brenda Ihssen Byzantine conceptions of Jesus: the Christ of council, court, and monk Byzantine perspectives offer westerners a contrast to their cherished assumptions about Jesus. This presentation will reflect on how Eastern Christians opened their understanding of God through the theological work of bishops, the Byzantine court’s care for the welfare of imperial identity, and the Byzantine monk’s care for the welfare of the

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aspect in order to move forward and gain the opportunity to play again.  “Sports is such a huge part of the athletes’ identity,” Thomas said. “When they returned to campus this fall they really exhibited a sense of gratitude for being able to participate in their sport. When everything was shut down suddenly it was done. You were not a softball player, you were not a track athlete. So, when our teams did come back it was really with a renewed sense of appreciation for being able to participate in

public PLU’s annual Earth Day lecture will feature Taylor Brorby, author of the recently released book, “Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land.” Like his book, Brorby’s lecture will contrast the gentle stirrings of the prairie with the violence of the oil and gas industry. Through the lens of his experience as a gay man growing up on fractured land, he will explore how character and identity are shaped by the landscapes that raise us. × Earth and Diversity Week April 19-23 | Attendance