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This is the full issue of Volume 12, Issue 1 of Verbum, published in Fall 2014 by the REST Club at St. John Fisher College. Articles from this issue are available as separate PDFs at http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/verbum/vol12/iss1/

Enculturation Of The Gospel Through Image: Influences And Attitudes Surrounding Early Christian Art, Peter Santandreu

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"The Gospel message, it seems, cannot exist in a “pure” form. It is always mediated through a culture, literary style, historical circumstance or artistic practice. This means that it incorporates influences that are alien to it, though it does so in a critical manner. With regards to the biblical account, such a realization led to the search for the “historical Jesus” which began in the 18th century. This study will take into account the socio‐cultural and historical factors that went into the first production of Christian images aimed at …

Contagious Grace, Cody Schweickert

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The Recipient, Paul A. Rothermich

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Walls Of Jerusalem, Wegdan Ashkar

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Vision 2020, George Payne

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Cancer Turned My Life Right Side Up, Susan Schultz

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"Five years ago I won the reverse lottery. Ovarian cancer is rare and I was diagnosed with an Ovarian Cancer Sarcoma, rarest of the rare. In a busy crowded emergency room, after briefly chatting about the Buffalo Sabres, the ER physician announced “You have a large ovarian tumor that looks like it has spread to your liver.” That abruptly began my cancer journey."

Heroic, Faithful, And Holy, Ryan Dalton

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"An ideology is a subtle, yet expansive way of describing someone’s beliefs and views of the world. Edith Stein clearly places a high precedence on believing in oneself, all people, and having faith in times of adversity. The director of the film Edith Stein portrays the death of Edith Stein as one of a martyr of Auschwitz for her people and for her faith. The ideology of the director is tremendously evident through the heroic, faithful, and holy portrayal of Edith Stein in reference to her religion and all …

The Commencement Of Our Violent Brothers, Juliet Janicik

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"It is taught in Sunday school, catechism, and Catholic and Christian schools across the country and the world that violence is not an option – the golden rule is always to be used. We are to be peaceful beings in regards to physical and emotional health in order to attain full happiness. But what we are not told are things about subjects that are not often breached, like alcohol, sex and drug abuse. We look at these subjects and wonder how our children, friends and siblings could ever fall …

Religion: Good Or Bad?, Emalie Ratt

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"Religion is a very complicated concept for many people, but religion can be seen in every corner of the world and its effects come in many different shapes and sizes. One word that can be seen as an effect or that is simply associated often with religion is violence. Violence like religion comes in many different forms and can be seen very easily in the world around us. Many people have written on the concepts of religion and violence and how they are connected with each other. But it …

Violence In Religion, Zach Vanaernum

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"Religion plays a large role in many people’s life. Many of the choices that people make are influenced and guided by their religious practices. Religion can often help people better themselves and help the lives of others. On the contrary it may seem that religion can do the opposite, causing people to be violent. Religion often gets blamed for acts of violence including suicide, martyrdom and terrorism. This paper will discuss several views of scholars on the role that religion plays in violence, paying close attention to whether religion …

A Love Affair With Fisher, Brittnany Broderick

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"St. John Fisher College. These four words are an easy way to describe where I have spent the majority of the last 12 years of my life.

My courtship with Fisher first began when I was a junior in high school. I had friends who attended this college and after only one visit, I was hooked. This place seemed so warm and welcoming. An added bonus: Fisher was small enough that I didn’t feel overwhelmed, yet large enough that I could experience some diversity. Having gone to a smaller …

Violence And Religion, Sean Murphy

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"Chapter 8, entitled “Violence and Religion” was written by Dr. Darlene Fozard Weaver for the textbook Introduction to Religious Studies. In this chapter, Weaver discusses the connection between violence and religion that has been prevalent in world history as well as provide questions aimed at the reader in order to provoke reflection and discussion. The most thought‐provoking of these include “Is religion inherently violent? Why or why not?” and “Could teaching religion be an act of violence? Why or why not?” Religion is not inherently violent"

Religion And Violence, Lauren Bannister

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"For thousands of years, religions and belief systems throughout the world have been severely criticized, due primarily to the deadly violence their followers endorsed. History clearly demonstrates that individuals and groups used religion to justify what most people regard as unholy acts. For centuries, discussions have questioned if religion is essentially good, or flawed, and if religion is inherently violent."

St. John Fisher In Galway, Tim Madigan

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"I am sending this article to Verbum from my apartment in Galway, Ireland, overlooking the beautiful Corrib River. Tomorrow I head to Dublin to celebrate the long St. Patrick’s Day weekend. I am over in Ireland for the Spring semester with nine intrepid St. John Fisher College students: Catherine Cunningham, Aidan Evans, Chelsea Marshall, Maggie Martin, Erin Mosher, André Remillard, Katlin Shippy, Brittany Sidari, and Sierra Stuckey. Together with 10 students from Hobart & William Smith Colleges, we have all traveled throughout the island, experiencing Ireland in all its …

The Assumptions That Define Me, Amy Ryan

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"When I was a little kid, I believed that before colored movies were created, people saw in black and white. I was honestly convinced that colored film was a direct result of humans finally learning how to see in color. I also believed that the older you got the more warts you grew, that eating watermelon seeds could lead to the spontaneous maturity of a new melon in your stomach, and that God was a man with a flowing white beard and kind eyes, not unlike those attributes most …

A Life’S Journey Through Fisher, George Payne

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"I arrived on the St. John Fisher campus in September of 2000 as a relatively naïve 18 year old kid from a rural village in upstate New York that had more cows than people. Although my parents were socially conscious in their own way, I was not a very conscientious person in High School. My primary focus was on sports, friendships, and girls. But Fisher changed my attitude about life completely."

Self-Control Helps People Avoid Violence, Zoe Thomas

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"When Martin Luther King Jr spoke these words, he was addressing the masses of mainly Black Americans who were fighting for freedom from discrimination and for the right to be treated as equally as any other human being. The struggle was long and hard. They had to endure abuse from the white men around them, who felt that they did not deserve to have equal rights. This was a struggle that easily erupted into physical violence. The white men fought the blacks and the blacks fought back. However, Dr. …

We Need To Share A Dream, Candace Benjamin

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"I have a dream that one day my fellow Black Americans will open their eyes to the world filled with self-hatred that they themselves have perpetuated throughout the years. I also have a dream that tomorrow the sun will rise on a new generation of prosperous young black people will emerge from the shadows that once consumed our future and rise up against the stereotype. We fail to realize that the foundation laid down for us by the great freedom fighters in our past is crumbling right below our …

Full Issue, No Author

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This is the full issue of Volume 11, Issue 2 of Verbum, published in Spring 2014 by the REST Club at St. John Fisher College. Articles from this issue are available as separate PDFs at http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/verbum/vol11/iss2/