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. “Mom was a Republican and dad was a Democrat, and I chose right,” Parnell said with a smile. “It made for some interesting discussions around the dinner table. “Growing up, around the family dinner table we basically talked about public service and theology,” Parnell recalled. The elder Parnell instilled in his son that being a public servant was a noble goal. “I think even at PLU, he always felt the call to public service,” said Sandy (Scebold ’84) Parnell, who met her future husband her freshman

explore how deep currents of religious themes shape great literature, she returned to college to earn a Ph.D. in history and historical theology.  Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Llewellyn Ihssen began teaching at PLU in 2005 as an adjunct professor. Many of her courses focus on the intersection of medicine, economics, social ethics, and religion — a favorite course was “Health and Healing in Christian History.”  Religious philosophies and theologies “shape people’s ideas of the body, and care

distinct historical and cultural norms. Similarly, the professors who teach the IHON classes also bring diversity in their disciplines – Randhawa’s two first-year IHON classes, for instance, were taught by experts in historical theology and French Literature. Randhawa loved them both. Others see it that way, too. And the benefit isn’t just in the classroom. “I like having friends who have completely different views and completely different visions of where their life is going to go,” said Nellie Moran

understanding the contentious dynamics around updating Austen and Austen as always already up to date. The animating question he asks as he delves into Jane Austen: Secret Radical (2016), The Making of Jane Austen (2017), and Teenage Writings (2017) is: “Do we read Austen to flee modernity, or to see it clearly?” Two distinct answers present themselves in his telling. The first is to “read her as her contemporaries might have—to deprettify the novels and show her immersion in the world, with all its

wrote on topics ranging from theology to natural history…[The author,] Honey Meconi, draws on her own experience as a scholar and performer of Hildegard’s music to explore the life and work of this foundational figure.”–back cover Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (PS3545.I342Z6455 2017) Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls–the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote

.” Hofrenning was born in Colombia and adopted by parents in Northfield, Minnesota. He said he gravitated toward Hispanic studies as a way to study his native culture. His religion minor is a nod to his mother’s career as a Lutheran pastor. The latter, he believes, can act as a force for progressive action. “I just think religion is a really important part of my theory of social change,” he said. “I had to understand the theology of different religions and how they play out in terms of liberating people

, and implies that language learning also entails acquiring a certain view of the world, certain distinctions that may not be part of the student’s native language. Examples might be notions of openness or closure conveyed by Russian verb aspects; different divisions of the color spectrum and concepts about categories of things, as in Chinese radicals. Many of these distinctions involve ideas about gender. For example, the radical for “woman” is present in many Chinese characters denoting moral

reasons. She had a healthy skepticism of theology, and responded to people as concrete bodies in need of care. The people who came to her door needed food, shelter, and care, and Magda provided it or saw that it was provided by others.4 Like Magda, the pastor’s cousin, Daniel, who came to run one of the many schools in Le Chambon, had a strong aversion to religious dogma and was deeply suspicious of all narrow religious belief. However, he saw in the work at Le Chambon a chance to contribute to the

: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (Harvard 1987); Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology (University of Illinois 1994); Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan, Animals and Women: Theoretical Explorations (Duke 1995); M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals (Princeton 1999); Eileen Crist, Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind (Temple 1999); Steven M. Wise, Rattling the Cage (Perseus 2000); Steve Baker, The Postmodern Animal (Reaktion 2000). One hopes that this interest in animals is

subject to falsification is not to hold them as religious beliefs at all. [The Relevance of Natural Science to Theology, p.94] Many have agreed with this perspective, pointing out that Christians begin their confession of faith with the words, “I believe,” not with anything like “I have inquired, and found it reasonable to conclude.” On this view, anyone who would say the latter might be said in one sense to believe, but would have no religious faith at all. The very essence of religious faith