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Believing Adoption, Samuel M. Brown

BYU Studies

Adoption theology is concerned with salvation and entry into the family of God. Early Latter-day Saint (Mormon) adoption theology taught by Joseph Smith came to include priesthood, baptism for the dead, temple rites, and more. The author concludes that this doctrine informs important questions, including: Are spirits born? What is the nature of salvation? What is the shape of the heaven family (the interlocking network of familial connections that will exist in the afterlife)? Adoption theology offers an alternative to the popular doctrine of spirit birth, one that is consistent with what Joseph Smith taught about the nature of God …

Ursinus Magazine, Spring 2013, Wendy Greenberg, Kathryn Campbell, Ellen Labrecque, Bobby Fong, Jennifer Meininger Wolfe, Olivia Z. Schultz, Rosemary Clark, William Godfrey, Robert Strauss

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Letter from the President • By the numbers: Ursinus College facts & figures • Innovation, risk and what it takes to compete • At home in the universe • Impacts of Salk's polio vaccine • Civic agriculture and the future of food • Class of 1954 endows Chair in Ethics • Scholarship supports careers in scientific research • Moving on • Bound for Yale University • Hitting the right notes on Community Day • Student research: Exploring gang culture in South Africa • Princeton Review • Commencement 2013 • Rite of Spring: The student art exhibition • Spotlight on excellence: …

Hearing The Silence: The University Of Dayton, The Ku Klux Klan, And Catholic Universities And Colleges In The 1920s, William Vance Trollinger

History Faculty Publications

The "second" Ku Klux Klan exploded into national prominence in the 1920s. While the original Klan was based in the South and concentrated its animus against the newly freed slaves, the second KKK was a national organization that expanded its list of social scapegoats to include Catholics, Jews, and immigrants. Ohio perhaps had more Klan members than any other state, and in the 1920s the Dayton KKK chapter targeted the local Catholic university – the University of Dayton (UD) – with crossburnings and a bombing. While the school's administration avoided confrontation, UD students and the UD football team aggressively challenged …

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

English Convents In Exile, 1600–1800, Part 1 (Book Review), Jaime Goodrich

English Faculty Research Publications

Caroline Bowden, Laurence Lux-Sterritt, and Nicky Hallett, eds. English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800. Part 1. Vols. 1 3. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. cxviii + 1265 pp. $495. ISBN: 978 1 84893 214 2.

Compulse, Candise W. Henson

Student Publications

A short short story that looks at the details of a strange marriage between a minister with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and his pregnant wife as they attempt to exorcise five girls at a backwoods church camp.

Nota Bene: News From The Yale Library, Yale University Library

Nota Bene

Nota Bene is published during the academic year to acquaint the Yale community and others with the resources of the Yale Library.

Protest, Alexandria Abel

PTRS Undergraduate Publications

Protest is a method used to oppose power or enact change. It is a multifaceted idea in that the type of protest used depends directly on the attainability of the goal. I will discuss the properties of protest and then show how individuals in Enrique’s Journey and Dorothy Day's Loaves and Fishes approach the act of protesting differently based on the actuality of the goals to be accomplished.

The Constitution, The Roberts Court, And Business: The Significant Business Impact Of The 2011-2012 Supreme Court Term, Corey Ciocchetti

William & Mary Business Law Review

The 2011–2012 Supreme Court Term created quite the media buzz. The Affordable Care Act cases and the controversial Arizona immigration law dominated the headlines. But the Term also included other fascinating yet less sensationalized cases. The Court heard its fair share of criminal law controversies involving derelict defense attorneys and prosecutors, as well as civil procedure disputes involving qualified immunity for witnesses in grand jury proceedings and private parties assisting the government in litigation. The Justices also entertained arguments on a federal law allowing United States citizens born in Jerusalem to have “Israel” stamped as their birthplace on a passport. …

Divine Commands Or Divine Attitudes?, Matthew Carey Jordan

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Hasker's Quests For A Viable Social Theory, Dale Tuggy

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

St. Norbert College Magazine Spring 2013, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

The home page of Spring 2013 St. Norbert College Magazine.

Panorama April 2013, Southern Adventist University

Panorama Parent Newsletter

This issue of the Panorama parent newsletter discusses opportunities to study abroad, highlights the Evangelistic Resource Center and Cultural Clubs, and contains a profile on Julie Norton.

News From Hope College, Volume 44.4: April, 2013, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

Hangin' With Judas: A Narrative Analysis Of Stephen Adly Guirgis's 'The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot', Constance Falconer

Masters Theses

Stephen Adly Guirgis has created an era-melting play, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, which explores the timeless debate between divine mercy and free will. A systematic application of Walter R. Fisher's narrative analysis, through form identification and a functional analysis, determined how Guirgis accomplishes persuasion. This qualitative study focused on Guirgis's narrative, using Walter R. Fisher's narrative paradigm as a framework to answer the research question(s): (1) If Guirgis's ideology and created world in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot are foreign and imagined, how is narrative probability and narrative fidelity achieved?; and, (2) How does Guirgis persuade his …

Which Is The Wisest Course?: The Transformation In Mormon Temple Consciousness, 1870–1898, Richard E. Bennett

BYU Studies

From the 1870s to 1890, the first Latter-day Saint temples in Utah were completed and temple work was fully underway, and at the same time the Church was being legally compelled to abandon polygamy. In 1890, Wilford Woodruff faced disenfranchisement of the Church and the loss of the temples. He was prepared to defend polygamy, but upon revelation from God changed his course and issued the manifesto ending plural marriage. Richard E. Bennett argues that a growing temple consciousness among Church leaders was a more significant cause of the manifesto than political ends, including the Saints' desire for statehood. The …

Education And Fertility: The Effect Of Field Of Study On Women’S Fertility Decisions, Emily Scholtes

Major Themes in Economics

This study aims to identify the relationship between field of study and women’s fertility among U.S. college graduates. Using data from the 2010 American Community Survey, this study provides the first Poisson regression analysis to compare the number of children women have with women’s undergraduate fields of study. Of the 37 fields of study that are examined, I find 22 fields are statistically significant, suggesting that field of study is a significant factor in how many children a woman decides to have.

Even Flowers Bloom On Unmarked Graves: Stories Of Disappeared South Africans, Willa Goldberg

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This ISP is a departure from the usual format. After gathering information from the MPTT, experiencing an exhumation, and interviewing relatives of two disappeared individuals – I endeavored to write a fictional four part story inspired by the previously mentioned activities. Although much of my project is heavily based on factual information, I utilized a creative license to create a story that also explores my journey as an observer, participant, and interviewer.

As previously mentioned the main methodology utilized was interviews. Other methodologies employed included observation, participation, and information gathered from secondary sources (for example, the MPTT’s files on missing …

Nuestra Voz: A Critical Ethnographic Study Of Latina School Leaders, Angelica Ramsey

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The population of Latina/o students in public school across the United States is ever-increasing. This fast-growing population suffers from high dropout rates and academic underachievement. This epidemic of underachievement is alarming, as today's Latina/o student will be tomorrow's workforce. There is no time like the present to increase the number of Latina principals in high schools throughout the United States. The purpose of this critical ethnographic study was to understand the experiences of Latina principals in both established and burgeoning Latina/o communities in raising Latina/o achievement. Key findings included: (a) strong ethnic ties and identity, (b) similar stories of ascending …

Copley Connects | Spring 2013, Copley Library

Copley Connects Library Newsletter

Librarians and Faculty Participate in Week-Long Info Lit Workshop | 1
The University Librarian's Update | 2
Copley and Writing Center Partner to Ensure Grad Student Success | 3
Alcalá Bazaar September 11, 2012 | 4
What's New in Access Services? | 5
The Reference Section in Copley Library | 6
Hill Reading Room Comes Alive with Student Voices | 7
One Book, One San Diego and Bridging Cultures Bookshelf | 7
Catholic Research Resources Alliance and USD | 8
Views from Technical Services | 9
Technical Services Staff Adds United Front Multicultural Center/Women's Center Collections to SALLY | 9 …

Is Keeping Kosher In 21st. Century Dublin A Challenge For The Jewish Community?, Diarmaid Murphy

Other resources

The Jewish faith is the most ancient of the mono-theistic religions and is considered the first religion in the world that has a written set of rules. The canonical content of Jewish law (Hallakah) is contained in two places, the Torah and the Talmud. Both of these are the Jewish Holy Scriptures and contain the laws given to the prophet Moses on Mount Sinai. To non-Jews, perhaps the most well-known of Jewish laws are the strictures surrounding food and diet. These include inter alia, the non-consumption of pork and shellfish. These laws regarding food are in fact most ancient and …

Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 54, March 28, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 47, July 2, 2012 - June 3, 2013

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, March 27, 2013, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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Treasure/The Navajo Vase, Shan Bryan-Hanson

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

For this first in our series in which we ask members of the St. Norbert community to talk about the objects they treasure and the meaning they carry, it seemed fitting to invite Shan Bryan-Hanson to be our contributor. Curator of art galleries, Bryan-Hanson is also charged with the care and displaying of the works of art in the college collection. The mystery and elegance of nature is the primary source of inspiration for her own painting.

Community As Text, Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

Two freshman classes in the Honors Program have now experienced “City as Text,” a unique common course that helps students understand how the activities and decisions of past generations shaped the present-day landscape – in particular, the landscape surrounding their college. The curriculum develops through onsite visits, discussions, problem-solving, and research papers.

God Occupies A Baby Crib, Karen Park

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

Karen Park (Religious Studies) explores the nature of God as infant and the implications of this radical idea.

Trinity As Trope: The Relational Turn In Communication Studies, Dennis Cali

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

Previous “systems” of rhetoric, which have arisen as responses to felt needs, emphasize an individualist paradigm whereas the contemporary system, responding to current impulses, tends toward a relational paradigm. The “Trinity” is proposed here as a trope that both prefigures this relational and dialogical turn in communication studies and suggests the ethical ends toward which communication praxis should aim. In particular, the Trinitarian thought of Chiara Lubich offers a unique perspective on the relational current in communication studies, especially its links of ontology with praxis, relational being with communication, and kenosis with perichoresis.

Godly Heretics: Essays On Alternative Christianity In Literature And Popular Culture, Marc Dipaolo

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

"When computers freeze, they are "rebooted" and soon working properly again. Similarly, legendary thinkers throughout history have argued that Christianity should start fresh by recapturing the humanitarian spirit of Jesus' original message. These include such disparate individuals as Thomas Jefferson, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, and the religious leaders of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Surprisingly enough, even classic television shows and films meant to be entertaining--Lost, Battlestar Galactica, It's a Wonderful Life, Groundhog Day, Decalogue, and A Charlie Brown Christmas--are attempts to apply the basic principles of Christianity to modern times. …

The Statesman, V. 56, I. 22, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 56, i. 22

Commonwealth Times 2013-03-25

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.