About Our People
Paul Otto (History) published an article, “Christian, Providential, and Ecclesiastical: Graphic Christian Perspectives on History,†in the Winter/Spring 2014 issue of Fides et Historia, a semi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal that concerns the intersection of Christian faith and historical inquiry.
Mark Pothoff (Student Life) presented and facilitated a dialogue titled “Transgenderism Roundtable Discussion†at the Association for Christians in Student Development’s (ACSD) annual conference at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn., June 2-5. The presentation focused on how institutions are responding to transgender students and how campuses are engaging in the dialogue and also shared emerging best practices. Rick Muthiah (IDEA Center) and Mark also presented “I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up: Institutional Approaches to Reach Struggling Students,†a workshop that focused on identification and intervention of students who are at risk and ways to help students thrive intellectually, spiritually, socially and emotionally.
On his second Fulbright Specialist Visit to Radboud University of Nijmegen (Netherlands), Paul Anderson (Christian Studies) recently presented the lectures “The Spirituality of Jesus,†“The Johannine Situation†and “The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel.†He also presented a paper in Groningen, the Netherlands, at the European Association for the Study of Religion on “Expansive Parabolic Construction from Jesus to John and Luke†and presented lectures at the University of Mainz (Germany) on “From Crisis to Christ: A Contextual Introduction to the New Testament,†“Metaphors and Parables in Bi-Optic Perspective†and “Contextual Issues in Corinth.†His book, Following Jesus: The Heart of Faith and Practice, received four reviews in the latest issue of Quaker Religious Thought, to which Paul contributed a response. Paul also contributed a review of The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies in that same issue. Finally, Paul was quoted by Ruth Haley Barton, author and founder of the Transforming Center, in her article “Pursuing God’s Will Together: When the Resurrected Christ Leads His Church,†published on the Transforming Center’s website.
Ed Higgins’ (English) poem “Icarus†is in the 2014 spring issue of shufPoetry, a biannual Southern California-based journal of experimental poetry and mixed media. In addition, he published his poems “The Young Couple in the Stairwell I Passed on My Way to Teaching Medieval World Literature Class,†“Poetry Lesson†and “Noon Campus†in the Spring 2014 issue of Oregon English Journal. More recently, his piece “stone silence†appeared in the June 2014 issue of The Shot Glass Journal, an online journal devoted to short poetry.