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Embracing Immigrants Is A Religious Imperative, Christopher R. Fee
Embracing Immigrants Is A Religious Imperative, Christopher R. Fee
English Faculty Publications
I’m an English professor, and in leftist intellectual circles it’s often considered somewhat unsophisticated and definitely uncool to argue in favor of traditional religious beliefs. However, as the clerk of a tiny Quaker Meeting in a farming community in rural Pennsylvania, I feel led to do so in the context of the debate about immigration. I would submit that Scripture is explicit in its requirement that we accept and embrace the immigrants in our midst, and note that Leviticus (19:34) makes no mention of legal status. (excerpt)
Editor's Introduction: Playing For Keeps: Games And Cultural Resistance [Special Issue], Marc A. Ouellette, Jason Thompson
Editor's Introduction: Playing For Keeps: Games And Cultural Resistance [Special Issue], Marc A. Ouellette, Jason Thompson
English Faculty Publications
This edition is as much about Game Studies as it about the games being studied. At its heart there are really two impulses behind the collection of critical thought we have been fortunate enough to gather for this issue of Reconstruction. First, there is the sense that games can’t do anything. Second, there is the sense that games don’t do anything. Their origin (and the underlying biases) makes these sentiments particularly intriguing. In the simplest terms, these premises delineate competing camps, as well. Roger Ebert notoriously asserts that video games will never be art (Ebert). Similarly, and yet quite differently, …
Transported Traditions: Transatlantic Foundations Of Southern Folk Culture, John Burrison
Transported Traditions: Transatlantic Foundations Of Southern Folk Culture, John Burrison
English Faculty Publications
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Otherness And Identity In The Victorian Novel, Michael Galchinsky
Otherness And Identity In The Victorian Novel, Michael Galchinsky
English Faculty Publications
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