This Gordon life: essays in honor of Jud and Jan Carlberg

Foreword / Mark Sargent

Peace on Earth? Questions for the New Year / Daniel Johnson

Resolved: a year of reconciliation / Judith Oleson

Hope for a happier news year / Jo Kadlecek

Life from below / Roger J. Green

As strong as death: thoughts for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2005 /Mark Sargent

A campus photographer’s journal: blizzard 2005 / Dan Nystedt ’06

Coveralls / Truitt Seitz ’02

Hoedown for Psalm one hundred / Jim Zingarelli

Tragic or comic: two visions of life and leadership / Dan Russ

A personal tour of African American history / Stella M. Pierce

Infinitives:for Jud and Jan / Graeme Bird

A builder and a gentleman: a colleague’s tribute to John Mason / Stephen L. S. Smith

An uncommon correspondence / Ivy George

Wizards, vampires and humanity / Janis Flint-Ferguson

What’s a gold medal worth? / Mark Gedney ’85

It’s more than just a swing / David Lee

Eat this book: the power and legacy of Dr. Seuss / Priscilla Nelson ’74

Welcome home / R. Judson Carlberg

The book King James inspired: 400 years later /Graeme Bird

Go communal: a Lenten reflection / Sharon Galgay Ketcham ’94

Defending the fatherless / Marvin R. Wilson

Scewtape revisited / Thomas Albert Howard

Reflections on charity in truth / Bruce Webb

Love and attention / Lindsey Reed ’12

Theatre and worship / Jeff Miller

Visions and revisions/ Norman Jones

Addicted to Facebook? Social media and Christian college students / Natalie Ferjulian ’10 and Maggie Roth ’10

Consciousness and hope: seeing through death / Bert Hodges

Matters of the purse and other economic issues / Casey Cooper ’03

Playing right: the need for holy leisure / Peggy Hothem

Towards a shalom-feminism / Lauren Swayne Barthold

First day of shorts / Dorothy Boorse ’87

Justice or mercy / Kaye Cook

Seek peace: an invitation to rest and an exhortation to act / Greg Carmer

Thoughts for Palm Sunday: April 2007 / Mark Sargent

I tried to imagine / Tom Borman ’00

Sacramental stones: sculpting as an Easter metaphor / Jim Zingarelli

Chlorite / Jim Zingarelli

Streets of Orvieto / Jim Zingarelli

Why Easter is good news for everyone / Steven A. Hunt

Easter in the ruins: April 25, 2011 / Mark Sargent

First dandelion contest / Craig Story ’89

A tribute to Tim Stebbings: March 17, 2003 / Mark Sargent

Annunciation / Tanja Butler

A transfigured vision: art and worship in community / Tanja Butler

March madness and the beauty of mathematics / Richard Stout

Giving a hand: a chapel address in honor of Jud and Jan Carlberg / Stan D. Gaede

A president precedent (excerpt) / bryan parys ’04

Gordon symposium: student initiated conversations outside the classroom / Harold Heie

A kind of awe / Hannah Armbrust ’11

Rites of spring / Michael Monroe

A perspective on the environmental backlash movement / Richard Wright

Questions for Adoniram Judson Gordon / Matt Schwabauer

Achieving our unique institutional character/ Richard F. Gross

A framework for the liberal arts / Stan D. Gaede

Change is our lifeblood / Ann D. Ferguson

First-year seminar: an exercise in character formation / David Aiken

Developing Christian character in students/ Malcolm A. Reid

Autumn / Stephen Bjork ’01

Two monks and a scholar /Jennifer Hevelone-Harper ’92

The Beechers in our backyard / Agnes Howard

Inspiration / Jon Tymann ’83

Inspiration / Rich Obenschain

Inspiration /Grady Spires

Inspiration / Elaine Phillips

Inspiration / Mark Stowell

Inspiration / Pat Marcheterre

Gordon celebrates National Poetry Month: April 2010

Translating A. J. Gordon’s global vision into globalization: a look ahead/ R. Judson Carlberg

Teachable moments / David Franz ‘45B

No turning back/ Stephen L. S. Smith, Ronald O. Waite and Theodore N. Wood

Land of history and mystery / Elaine Phillips

Per credere, per sperare, per amare: joined together to believe, to hope and to love / Liesl Smith

The lessons of dislocation / Liesl Smith

Going green, crossing cultures: modern lessons from Francis of Assisi / Wendy Murray

The accidental chaplain / Bob Whittet ’78

Facebook in a monastery / John Skillen ’76

Celebrating the other global language / Emmanuelle A. Vanborre

Words matter / Jan Carlberg

The inimitable Peter W. Stine / Kristin Schwabauer Rydbeck ’04

Ann Ferguson:living the literature / Jo Kadlecek

Modern myths of the church and the mentally ill / Suzanne Phillips ’83

Relational turmoil: how does God figure in? / Paul Borgman

Thanks, after the stroke / Paul Borgman

Work’s newest danger: resisting rest / Kent W. Seibert

Lessons in the marketplace / Thomas L. Phillips

Advent I / Michelle Arnold ’99

Jesus is lord! / Paul Brink

How my mind has changed / Bill Harper ’62

What’s happened to real politics?/ Timothy Sherratt

Politically correct prayer / Ruth Melkonian

American Christianity: a new perspective / Thomas Askew and Richard Pierard

GC and PC/ Russell K. Bishop

Prairie Pothole Wonder / Dorothy Boorse ’87

High place highs / Dale Pleticha

Think January / Bill Harper ’62

Worm sex /Mark Stevick ’87

In search of the perfect game / Valerie Gin

Learning to serve / Steve Alter

Broken glass / Mark L. Sargent

Thoughts on setting out / Bruce Herman

Surface detail, second Adam / Bruce Herman

Dress on fishing dock / Jean Sbarra Jones

Why teaching matters now more than ever / Janet Arndt ’68

The certainty of uncertainty / Norman Jones

An hour with the Constitution

Golden pines–Gordon / Makoto Fujimura

Ken Olsen brings entrepreneurial leadership to science / Daniel Tymann

On taking vows in two priesthoods, Christianity and science / Robert Herrmann

Biomes / Abby Ytzen ’10

When science meets religion: enemies, strangers, or partners?/ Bryan Auday

Favorite IT (information technology) memories and artifacts

Get lost in Jerusalem / Ted Hildebrandt

Hyperspace / Michael Monroe

Cyberworlds, cyberethics, cybermissionaries? / Brian Glenney

Forty shades of green / Irv Levy and Dwight Tshudy

Autumn wonderland / Irv Levy

Remember the first Hypernikon / Marvin R. Wilson

End of an era / Bill Harper ’62

Hecht / Sue Trent

Denizens of the autumn air / Gregory S. Keller

Second church’s place in theological history: John Codman and the Unitarian debate / Cliff Hershey

Man and his works: powerplants (legger potessi in me) / Grant Hanna ’06

Saving Marv’s Bible / Cyndi McMahon

Listening between the lines: how the acceptance speeches matter more than the debates / Nathan Baxter

Some thoughts upon the burning of Westmont / Mark Sargent

The hour and the day / Heijin (Esther) Kim ’06

As the turn wheels / Bill Harper ’62

In case you have been wondering about all the moths / Dorothy Boorse ’87

Advent voices / Mark Stevick ’87

It’s beginning to look a lot like…Florida / Sybil W. Coleman

A campus photographer’s journal: northern lights / Dan Nystedt ’06

End game / Bill Harper ’62

All the president’s pens

“Actually, Lucy, my trouble is Christmas.” / Rini Cobbey

December sun: a Christmas reflection / Greg Carmer

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