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friends — embody every day. Lutes Ask Tough Questions“Every day, I face questions of the ethics, strategy, politics and technical complexity of how to do the most social good with the resources available.” – Susan Boyd ’90, Bellwether Housing CEO (affordable housing nonprofit) Read more: “Housing our neighbors” Lutes Make It Happen“Being a pre-med student, or a student thinking about any health science grad school, can be a lot … so I wanted to offer a campus resource for underclassmen to learn from
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in bowls available will increase the number purchased and raise more money for those in need. “It’s about the connection of the artist to user,” ceramics student Sarah Henderson said. “I am connected to whoever uses my bowl and vice versa. I’m thinking about the relationship throughout the whole creative process; to have someone pick one of my bowls out of the group. That’s the best feeling.” PLU’s Dining & Culinary Services will be serving up Zupa Ogorkowa, a Polish dill pickle and potato soup
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prosody that is grounded in the synergetic relationship between reading and creativity. But the art of writing (like thinking) is an ongoing and lived engagement with how our voices and our hands shape and get shaped by the world. That engagement should evolve and thrive beyond the particulars of any single learning context. As such, I think of workshop as an interim where we cultivate habits of mind and sensitivities to craft that a writer can adapt according to their everyday grind and develop
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thinking about how they treat others,” Waters says. “[The play] encourages people to empathize with fellow human beings who may have different life experiences. I want people to see parts of themselves in the characters onstage, even though they may have very little in common with them on a surface level.” The spring Vpstart production will run for one weekend only in the Studio Theater of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets can be purchased for $5 at the Campus Box Office
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its most fundamental: By loving children who simply weren’t receiving it. Bray attributes the focus PLU places on being globally minded, thinking of others and emphasizing personal growth as key to preparing her for such an experience. “Affirming this passion to serve others as part of my life’s vocation has been very powerful,” said Bray. “At the same time I feel a great responsibility. It has been a challenge to transfer this desire and calling to serve others into my normal everyday routine
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world is genuine.” At PLU, Eckstein helped students from around the world acclimate to the PLU community, and he was always thinking of new ways to advocate for them. He played a primary role in organizing multicultural night and “Global Get-Down,“ where students can showcase a piece of their culture and learn about other cultures. To see why other PLU Diversity Advocates care about social justice, click here. Read Previous Oil Literacy panel Read Next Crime of My Very Existence COMMENTS*Note: All
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vocational shift landed me in charge of a magazine showing others the value of Lutheran higher education — the commitment to big questions, inclusion and thinking within and beyond yourself that fundamentally changed who I am. I still don’t identify with a faith tradition, and yet I’m here writing a story about an illuminated, handwritten Bible that inspired me from the moment I first examined its pages in Collegeville, Minnesota. The Saint John’s Bible captivates me for the same reasons I was pulled to
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. On November 10th, PLU will have its own celebration with the opening of an exhibition in the Scandinavian Culture Center accompanied by presentations by Ryan and two Norwegian visitors, Knut Pihl and Willy Østreng,from the Heyerdahl Institute. Thor Heyerdahl’s zeal for life and his “out of the box” thinking are well worth remembering. As Loren Anderson stated in 2012 during a final address to the University, “Heyerdahl personified our great human capacity to wonder, to stand in awe of creation
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thinking about how they treat others,” Waters says. “[The play] encourages people to empathize with fellow human beings who may have different life experiences. I want people to see parts of themselves in the characters onstage, even though they may have very little in common with them on a surface level.” The spring Vpstart production will run for one weekend only in the Studio Theater of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets can be purchased for $5 at the Campus Box Office
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of food. But thinking about this issue reminded me of another important aspect of breaking bread together – the notion of hospitality. It is one of the greatest qualities of a human being to possess a sense of hospitality. In ancient societies, hospitality was considered a great virtue, and refusal to be hospitable to others was a great sin. Travelers from distant lands were offered a warm reception with shelter and food for the night, often without the host knowing the stranger’s history or
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