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Blues Man On A Mojo Mission, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

Presents an article on rhythm and blues music in the U.S. Non-sponsorship of actual blues music in the House of Blues; Information on Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson; Insights on using charms and amulets to improve guitar skills.

Faculty Diversity, Kyle Scafide, Barbara Johnson

Kyle Scafide

This article presents a broad view of issues related to faculty diversity. Headings include Demographics, The Growth of Faculty Diversity as an Ideal, and Barriers in the Academic Workplace. Race, ethnicity, and gender are the most common characteristics that institutions observe in order to measure faculty diversity. An even broader approach to faculty diversity involves age, socioeconomic background, national origin, sexual orientation, and diverse learning styles and opinions. Until the latter part of the twentieth century, the professoriate in the western world was composed almost exclusively of privileged, heterosexual males of Caucasian descent. Higher education institutions are generally concerned with …

Discipliana Vol-62-Nos-1-4-2002, Newell Williams

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Discipliana Vol-62-Nos-1-4-2002

Mark G. Toulouse, THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

Craig M Watts, MILLENNIAL AMERICA AND THE VISION OF PEACE IN THE THOUGHT OF ALEXANDER CAMPBELL

Lester G. McAllister, A DISCIPLES SEMINARY AT BERKELEY

Richard C. Goode, FLOATING AT RANDOM BETWEEN LIBERTY AND OBEDIENCE? BACKGROUNDS TO THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING'S EMOTIONAL EXERCISES

Amy Collier Artman, THE ENCOUNTER OF NORTH AMERICAN STONE· CAMPBELL CHRISTIANS WITH THE PENTECOSTAL! CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT

James Stephen Wolfgang, MILLENNIAL THEMES IN THE RESTORA TION MOVEMENT: CIVIL WAR TO 1900

Carmelo Alvarez, MISSION AS LIBERATING SPIRIT: DISCIPLES AND PENTECOSTALS IN VENEZUELA

Menorah Review (No. 56, Fall, 2002)

Menorah Review

Recent Research on Women in Israel: Politics, Academic and Motherhood -- Interdisciplinary Images -- Biblical Scholarship of Grace and Insight -- Refueling in Anytolia -- Outsider As Insider As Outsider -- The Feminist Corner -- The Yearly Battlefield -- Noteworthy Books

Menorah Review (No. 55, Spring/Summer, 2002)

Menorah Review

Two Judaisms, Rabbinic and Christian, Invent Their Martyrdom Discourses -- PothoIes in the Jewish Landscape -- God Wrestling -- Remembrance of Things Past -- The Endless Diversity of Interpretation -- The Response to Uniqueness -- The Reference Shelf -- Noteworthy Books

Menorah Review (No. 54, Winter, 2002)

Menorah Review

Halakha, Hermeneutics and History -- Go -- Dialogue in Pursuit of Social Action -- Dream Joggings -- Rabbis, Society and Historiography -- Was Herod a Jew? -- Noteworthy Books

The Historical Background, Interconnected Development And Integration Of The Doctrines Of The Sanctuary, The Sabbath, And Ellen G. White's Role In Sabbatarian Adventism From 1844 To 1849, Merlin D. Burt

Dissertations

The topic . The doctrines of the sanctuary and the Sabbath, along with Ellen White's prophetic role, progressively evolved and integrated during the five years following the October 1844 Millerite time expectation and were the fundamental elements in the formation of the Sabbatarian Adventist movement and ultimately the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

The purpose . The purpose of the study was to situate the interconnected development of the sanctuary, the Sabbath, and Ellen White's prophetic ministry within the ferment of Adventist ideas and events, show the immediate theological climate, and give a connected progression of Bridegroom (or Shut Door) Adventism and …

The Historical Debate Among Leaders Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints On The Topic Of The United Nations, Katie Marie Lenhard

Theses and Dissertations

Since the inception of the United Nations in 1945, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have made public statements regarding the international peace and security organization. To the confusion of many Church members, who often look to their leaders for prophetic guidance on numerous spiritual and temporal topics, these statements have been conflicting. Some Church leaders have clearly opposed the United Nations and others have openly supported it, offering various ideological explanations for their beliefs. Yet, it is evident that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has never made an official position on the …

New Oxford Review, Lawrence Porter

Rev. Lawrence B. Porter, Ph.D

No abstract provided.

American Vincentian Evangelization: Some Historical Perspectives, John E. Rybolt

John E Rybolt

This presentation examines three myths about Vincentian life and work: seminaries, excellence, glorification of the past. Suggestions for the future are presented.