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both locally and globally. – Jackal Tanelorn Jackal Tanelorn ’09 graduated from PLU in May with a major in Spanish and minors in Norwegian and religion. He was one of Carmiña Palerm’s students in the Oaxaca gateway program. Read Previous Flying high Read Next Matters of Faith 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
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PLU’s office of Campus Ministry. After a bunch of discussions, Alazadi and others around campus of various faiths created the Reflection Room, a place for students of all faiths – or those with no professed faith – to reflect and think. Brenda Ihssen, visiting assistant professor of religious history and historical theology, added that these clubs are evidence “that there is an open dialogue between the academic study of religion and the interest–and investment–that individuals have in their faith
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, lots more goals scored. And for me, it’s great to give people—kids, especially—as many opportunities as possible to watch. The more they can watch pros, the more they can learn and take it to next level, use it as a tool to become a better person in different areas of life, not just a professional athlete.” “My love for the sport wasn’t just to win, but to develop,” Croft said. “I’ve always viewed the game as a huge learning tool. It’s such a world’s game. The love and the almost religion that some
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, we can continue and enhance innovative academic programs that create internships and research opportunities for all students.Meet Dr. Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, the interim dean of Interdisciplinary Programs and professor of Religion and Culture. She shares with us how the pandemic has changed the college classroom and how PLU’s professors are challenging our students to prepare them for the future. How are academic programs leaning on each other to build successful curriculums? We’re engaging in
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Muslim, and a Jew in interfaith dialogue, because that’s not usually who we have engaging with Campus Ministry. Often students are connecting with us and saying things like I don’t know, but I’m curious; I find the sacred in nature; or I feel connected to something bigger than me, but I don’t know how to think about that. So they’re not affiliated with a specific religion, but it’s not as though they aren’t religious or spiritual. It’s my understanding that many of our students who are religious stay
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reflection on this subject begins with the “Introduction to Holocaust & Genocide Studies” course, which serves the minor but is also a general education course open to all PLU students. Professors from the history, English, German, religion, social work and Hispanic Studies departments worked together to create the course to allow students to investigate the intersections of dehumanization, violent oppression, cultural destruction, and war. “We wanted to highlight the interdisciplinary and global focus
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Williams (Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1969),73. Qtd. in Robert N. Bellah, Beyond Belief: Religion in a Post-Traditional World (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), 242-43. Rick Barot, “The Poem is a Letter Opener,” in Chord (Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2015), 19-20. Bruce Kimball, Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (With a Foreword by Joseph L. Featherstone; New York and London: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1986). Wallace Stevens, from “Notes
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serving communities by volunteering at Habitat for Humanity and Special Olympics. In fact, the assembly’s social-justice campaigns have earned national recognition: In August 2014, SAAC was awarded the inaugural NCAA Division III Diversity Spotlight Initiative for its “You Can Play” campaign, which was comprised of a video and posters stating that, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or ethnicity, “If you can play, you can play.” SAAC also hosts an annual Youth Sports Clinic
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foster the ascent of his professional and personal vocation. Thankful to have had the opportunity to lead transit-advocacy efforts all over the country, Austin is now back in his element in Tacoma, advocating, organizing and educating on behalf of the issue in the state he loves. Now regarded as a national leader and expert on transportation advocacy, the Religion and Global Studies graduate says he’s still every bit as passionate about social justice as he was a decade ago while a student at PLU
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commitment to caring for others, Hambrick said. PLU has always touted a mission of inclusion; the next step is making real progress toward modeling the type of inclusion it describes in its mission, Hambrick said. In other words, moving from a campus that welcomes diversity to a campus that creates an authentic sense of belonging for all students, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity. Tyler Dobies ’16 said it is difficult to face microaggressions every day. As a person of
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