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Review Of Buddhism & Political Theory By Matthew J. Moore, Charles W. Wright

The Journal of Social Encounters

Buddhism & Political Theory, by Matthew J. Moore, proposes to extract a political theory from the Pali language texts of the Buddhist religious tradition that is palatable to Western academic sensibilities so that it might be ushered into the company of contemporary political and ethical philosophy. "Let me introduce you," the book in essence says to the world of Western philosophy, "to a long overlooked, unusual, and interesting perspective on political and ethical theory that you really ought to include in your conversations."

Review Of Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees And Lewiston, Maine By Catherine Besteman, Ellen Block

The Journal of Social Encounters

Catherine Besteman conduced fieldwork in the late 1980’s in the small village of Banta in southern Somalia. Implausibly, she was reunited with many of her former friends and interlocutors in Lewiston, Maine two decades later, laying the ground for this impressive ethnographic study. In Making Refuge, Besteman traces the experiences of Somali Bantu refugees from Somalia, through the Kenyan refugee camps, and to their resettlement in the United States. She shows how the prevailing view of refugees as “apolitical, docile, and dependent recipients” (Pg. 29), and as passive and grateful objects of humanitarian aid is both misconstrued and morally deficient. …

Review Of Flourishing: Why We Need Religion In A Globalized World By Miroslav Volf., Jon Armajani

The Journal of Social Encounters

Dr. Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale University and the Founding Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. His works have spanned several subfields within the discipline of theology -- from a book, published in 1988, on Karl Marx’s concept of labor and its theological value, to a book published in 1996, which is a theological exploration of identity, otherness, and reconciliation, to a book published in 2012 on Jews, Christian, and Muslims in dialogue. In Volf’s Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World, he attempts to shed …

The Role Of The Traditional Somali Model In Peacemaking, Hudda Ibrahim

The Journal of Social Encounters

In this paper I explore the mediation and reconciliation efforts of traditional Somali elders. I also discuss why traditional elders have been effective peacemakers in Northern Somali (Somaliland) but not in Somalia. I argue that four factors comprising an "insider-partial mediation" approach in Somaliand helps to explain why it was effective there. In conclusion, this paper shows that the traditional Somali approach of peacemaking is a viable and effective approach to mitigating conflicts in Somalia.

An Overview Of Four Traditions On War And Peace In Christian History, Joseph J. Fahey

The Journal of Social Encounters

This essay examines four traditions on war and peace that have developed in Christian history. They are: Pacifism, Just War, Total War, and World Community.Pacifism characterized the earliest Christians; Just War appeared in the late fourth and fifth centuries; Total War in the eleventh century; and World Community began in the sixteenth century. All four positions continue today and are held by people who sincerely call themselves Christian.

Cotidie Ante Oculos: On The Cornerstones Of Saint John’S Churches, Old And New, Martin Connell

Headwaters

Drawing from the Bible and the Rule of Saint Benedict, campus inscriptions on the Saint John’s campus were set in place at times when all Roman Catholic worship and art was in Latin. Because we pass them every day often without appreciating their significance and potential inspiration, Cotidie ante oculos takes two of the most unseen articles of campus art—the cornerstones of the former and current abbey churches, unrejected by builders and set in place in 1879 and 1958— and places them in the cultures, societies, and beliefs of Christian and Benedictine life in those years. The essay aims to …

Quiet Johnny, Ryan Mccanna

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In 1987, Patricia and Leonard Porcello endowed the Wagner-Berger Prize to honor Patricia’s parents, Louis and Mary Wagner-Berger, and to support college women who are interested in writing short stories and novels. It is designed to encourage and reward excellence in creative writing at the College of Saint Benedict.

The Wagner-Berger Prize for fiction is the first scholarship of its kind at the College of Saint Benedict. It is a scholarship awarded annually to the CSB student who submits the most original, previously unpublished short story. All submissions are judged by a committee of English Department members, and the winner …

Confederacy Of Dunces #8, Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

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Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois has had over fourteen-hundred of his poems and fictions appear in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He has been nominated for numerous prizes, and was awarded the 2017 Booranga Writers’ Centre (Australia) Prize for Fiction. His novel, Two-Headed Dog, based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital, is available for Kindle and Nook, or as a print edition. To read more of his work, Google Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois. He lives in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Angels, Chet Corey

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Chet Corey was born and raised in Minneapolis. Chet Corey’s poems have appeared in literary and religious journals since the mid-1960s, including Benedictines Magazine, Kansas Quarterly, Louisville Review, National Catholic Reporter, Review for Religious, South Dakota Review, and Windhover (U. of Mary-Hardin Baylor). Most recently poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Coe Review, Right Hand Pointing and Stoneboat. Chet and his wife Kathy live alongside Bush Lake in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Sunlit, Bridget Davis

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Bridget Davis is a senior from Andover, Minnesota pursuing a BA in English and a BA in art at the College of Saint Benedict. She is also an artist who works in a variety of media, as well as an aspiring writer.

"I Love You Too", Mollee Girgen

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Ugly, Sarah Neve

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Sarah Neve grew up in the small town of Minnetrista, Minnesota, with her three younger brothers. She currently attends the College of St. Benedict as a first year and is majoring in Creative Writing with a Music minor. She plans to become an author in the future through novels and possibly poetry. Sarah’s hobbies include drawing and slowly transitioning to a sustainable and environmentally-friendly lifestyle.

Fairies Under Water, Yuxuan Wang

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Yuxuan Wang - “Mirror”: This picture was taken on the Lofoten Islands in Norway. It was picturesque, the beauty of these islands was simple, pure and breathtaking. It was hard to describe with words, so I chose to capture it with my camera. Five minutes after I took this picture, a boat came across on the little river, and the water surface was never a perfect mirror for the sky and mountain again. “Fairies Under Water”: These jellyfish in the picture are moon jellyfish from Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. The colorful lights in the water made the …

After Much Pain, Bibhu Padhi

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Bibhu Padhi - A Pushcart Prize nominee, Bibhu Padhi has published eleven books of poems. His poems have appeared in distinguished magazines and anthologies throughout the English-speaking world. In USA they have been published, among others, in The Atlantic Review, The American Scholar, Colorado Review, Commonweal,, Confrontation, New Letters, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner. Poetry, Southwest Review, Tulane Review and TriQuarterly. He lives with his family in Bhubaneswar, India.

My Shadow, Sandeep Kumar Mishra

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Sandeep Kumar Mishra is a writer, poet, artist and lecturer in English Literature. He is the art instructor at Kishlaya Outsider Art Academy. He has edited a collection of poems by various poets - Pearls (2002) and written a professional guidebook -How to be (2016) and a collection of poems and art-Feel My Heart (2016).

Catherine, Sean Lause

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Sean Lause is a professor of English at Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Pedestal, Atlanta Review, Sanskrit, Illuminations and Poetry International. He has published two books of poetry, Bestiary of Souls (FutureCycle Press, 2013) and the upcoming Wakeful Fathers and Dreaming Sons (Orchard Street Press).

Untitled, Simon Perchik

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Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Osiris Poems published by box of chalk, 2017. For more information, including free e-books, his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.

Traces Of History, Sandeep Kumar Mishra

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Sandeep Kumar Mishra is a writer, poet, artist and lecturer in English Literature. He is the art instructor at Kishlaya Outsider Art Academy. He has edited a collection of poems by various poets - Pearls (2002) and written a professional guidebook -How to be (2016) and a collection of poems and art-Feel My Heart (2016).

The Forest, Maggie Pomerenke

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Maggie Pomerenke is gender non-binary double major in French and English, with a Creative Writing concentration from New Berlin, Wisconsin. They have been writing since they were very young, but really immersed themselves in the art during the last part of their high school career. They enjoy playing flute and piccolo, reading and listening to music as well as being a part of the swim and dive team at Saint Ben’s. Maggie enjoys writing many different genres as well as poetry and is a member of Pseudonym, and often shares their writing there.

Walls Keep In/Out, Diane Webster

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Diane Webster grew up in Eastern Oregon before she moved to Colorado. She enjoys drives in the mountains to view all the wildlife and scenery and takes amateur photographs. Writing poetry provides a creative outlet exciting in images and phrases Diane thrives in. Her work has appeared in The Hurricane Review, Eunoia Review, Illya's Honey, and other literary magazines.

One Step Back, Two Steps Forward, Grace Gnahn

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Grace Gnahn is a senior at CSB/SJU and will be graduating in May of 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in communication. She currently has a full time position as an Assistant House Supervisor of a group home for J and J Holmes. Aside from work and academics, she lives a life that is filled with music and art. Grace enjoys traveling around our country to attend music & art festivals. Photography is currently her biggest passion and she plans to make this a bigger part of her life after graduating.

Frost Scratches, Diane Webster

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Diane Webster grew up in Eastern Oregon before she moved to Colorado. She enjoys drives in the mountains to view all the wildlife and scenery and takes amateur photographs. Writing poetry provides a creative outlet exciting in images and phrases Diane thrives in. Her work has appeared in The Hurricane Review, Eunoia Review, Illya's Honey, and other literary magazines.

Questions Without Answers, Steph Haeg

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Stephanie Haeg is a senior history and creative writing major at the College of St. Benedict from Sauk Centre, MN.

Blue, Bridget Davis

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Bridget Davis is a senior from Andover, Minnesota pursuing a BA in English and a BA in art at the College of Saint Benedict. She is also an artist who works in a variety of media, as well as an aspiring writer.

Black Widow(Tm) Lipstick, Christopher Barnes

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Christopher Barnes’s first collection Lovebites is published by Chanticleer. Each year he reads at Poetry Scotland’s Callender Poetry Weekend. He also writes art criticism which has been published in Peel and Combustus magazines.

Elegy For Stan, Chet Corey

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Chet Corey was born and raised in Minneapolis. Chet Corey’s poems have appeared in literary and religious journals since the mid-1960s, including Benedictines Magazine, Kansas Quarterly, Louisville Review, National Catholic Reporter, Review for Religious, South Dakota Review, and Windhover (U. of Mary-Hardin Baylor). Most recently poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Coe Review, Right Hand Pointing and Stoneboat. Chet and his wife Kathy live alongside Bush Lake in Bloomington, Minnesota.

This House, Holly Day

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Holly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in Big Muddy, The Cape Rock, New Ohio Review, and Gargoyle, and her published books include Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies, Ugly Girl, and The Yellow Dot of a Daisy. She has been a featured presenter at Write On, Door County (WI), North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference (CA), and the Spirit Lake Poetry Series (MN). Her newest poetry collections, A Perfect Day for Semaphore (Finishing Line Press) and I'm in a Place Where Reason …

Road To Parque, Hannah Kosel

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Hannah Kosel is a 2018 graduate of the College of Saint Benedict. One of Hannah’s greatest experiences as a student was living in Guatemala for a semester. However, with every exciting experience came an equally challenging experience. With an interest in photography and storytelling, Hannah uses photos from her time abroad to portray the most honest picture of the realities of immersing oneself in an entirely new culture. Building upon her studies of public health, Hannah will continue to engage with issues of homelessness and food justice after graduation and is eager to continue incorporating photography into this work!

Workers, Larry Schug

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Larry Schug is retired from a life of various kinds of physical labor, including 34 years as Groundskeeper and Recycling coordinator at the College of St. Benedict. He currently volunteers as a tutor in the CSB/SJU Writing Centers and in various ways at Outdoor U. at St. John's. He's published eight books of poems, the most recent being A Blanket of Raven Feathers with North Star Press.

Choices, Bibhu Padhi

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Bibhu Padhi - A Pushcart Prize nominee, Bibhu Padhi has published eleven books of poems. His poems have appeared in distinguished magazines and anthologies throughout the English-speaking world. In USA they have been published, among others, in The Atlantic Review, The American Scholar, Colorado Review, Commonweal,, Confrontation, New Letters, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner. Poetry, Southwest Review, Tulane Review and TriQuarterly. He lives with his family in Bhubaneswar, India.