By: Katy Drage Lines on June 28, 2018
Boxers[1] Bean garden revenge Op’ra gods fear foreign devils Storied people lost. Saints[2] Named but confused faith St Joan guides and inspires her Sacrificed, she saves. Epilogue More than religion Into church come thieves, murd’rs To West-branded faith. [1] Gene Luen Yang, Boxers…
By: Dan Kreiss on June 27, 2018
The Deep Change Field Guide by Robert Quinn seeks to encourage readers that genuine change is possible and that all are capable of eliciting real and deep change. There are only two main problems with this thought 1. Deep and 2. Change. Few people really enjoy doing things deeply as it’s frequently painful. Cleaning a…
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on June 27, 2018
Prezi PDLP Presentation https://prezi.com/p/be6lor8myikj/
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on June 27, 2018
Once upon a time a boxer and a saint fight screams! Death to the saint. Fires rage, saints die boxers rage more war with saints seas of blood run wide. Saints love orphans well. Boxers kill the ones who love. Who is left to love? A country mourns deep as the ones…
By: Lynda Gittens on June 27, 2018
Most children want to be superheroes. During my childhood, we had Superman, Batman, Underdog, and Wonder Woman. Young boys were tying a towel around their neck jumping off of chairs or out of windows to immolate flying. For Batman, it was making the sound “Dudududududududu Batman!” with their sidekick Robin. And of course, Underdog!…
By: Mary Walker on June 27, 2018
For China?! What is China but a people and their stories?[1] Mei-wen to Bao Gene Luen Yang, a practicing Roman Catholic grew up in a Chinese American Catholic community in the Bay Area. He felt that Christianity and Chinese culture seemed to go hand-in-hand. His Chinese neighborhood served as…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on June 26, 2018
As I read the Deep Change book by Robert Quinn, I found a few powerful quotes that directly apply to a “deep change” that took place in my life a number of years ago. I feel it would most beneficial to me, and hopefully you, for me to tell my story in light of each…
By: Stu Cocanougher on June 26, 2018
China has a long history with Christianity. With written records going back over 4,000 years, it is one of the great ancient civilizations that is still in existence. Missionaries love to point out that the written Chinese language consists of word pictures (think hieroglyphics). Some of these word pictures mimic stories in the book…
By: Kristin Hamilton on June 26, 2018
Given permission to write this week’s post about Boxers and Saints, by Gene Luen Yang, in Haiku form, that’s what I am doing! Saint of Four Girl faith, Martyred at Little Bao’s hand; Champions, at what cost? And with that, the final blog post for my DMin coursework is complete! I will continue to post…
By: Mike on June 26, 2018
Robert Quinn’s, The Deep Change Field Guide, is a leader’s do-it-yourself (DIY) manual on how to achieve what he calls a “fundamental state of leadership.”[1] Purpose-centered, internally directed, other-focused, and externally open is Quinn’s primary goal for the serious reader and leader in today’s global framework. He challenges leaders to willingly undergo a radical personal…
By: Christal Jenkins Tanks on June 23, 2018
https://prezi.com/view/CKItWl2A0LpHgHiWi2iw/
By: Dave Watermulder on June 22, 2018
I was sitting glumly in office of my spiritual director. It was in the week before Holy Week, and I was feeling stressed. As I looked ahead to all the special services and extra activities that lay ahead, I had the sense that everything was just happening tome, and that I had very little say…
By: Jim Sabella on June 22, 2018
Here is the link to my Finishing Well presentation. https://prezi.com/view/OurQnGZhB4g72oTj2WTn/
By: Jean Ollis on June 21, 2018
Gene Luen Yang’s ‘Boxers’ and ‘Saints’, while delivered in quirky comic book style, tells a serious and important story about Chinese history and the boxer rebellion. “Not all of the Boxers are noble, and Yang highlights this as the Boxers’ fear of polluting “Yin” and misogynistic rumors about Westerners that partly fuel their disgust. Like…
By: Jason Turbeville on June 21, 2018
When I first opened up Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang, I was surprised to see a graphic novel. I love graphic novels, I have been reading them for most of my life. The one thing about graphic novels is they are a quick read but they convey so much through the artistic medium. In…
By: Jennifer Williamson on June 21, 2018
Therefore, visual ethnography…does not claim to reproduce an objective or truthful account of reality, but should offer versions of ethnographers’ experiences of reality that are as loyal as possible to the context, the embodied, sensory, and affective experiences, and the negotiations and intersubjectivities through which the knowledge was produced.[1] Sarah Pink’s explanation of visual ethnography…
By: Jay Forseth on June 21, 2018
Now that was different! But, I liked it. Yang’s Boxers and Saints made me think from two different and new perspectives of the Chinese people in regards to foreign Christian missionaries “invading” their homeland. Little peasant boy Bao and his village felt abused and plundered by Westerners, while odd girl Vibiana is taken in by Christian…
By: Chris Pritchett on June 21, 2018
Yang’s Boxers and Saints is an engaging way to introduce our cohort to the Boxer Rebellion that took place in China in at the turn of the twentieth century. To be candid, my knowledge of the Boxer Rebellion is virtually now limited to Yang’s perspective. There is much for me to learn of this part…
By: Trisha Welstad on June 21, 2018
When looking at the cover of Boxers & Saints, one might think they are a two-part story of one person but upon closer inspection and, especially after diving into the text, the reader learns Boxers & Saints are two different people’s perspective to the same story of China at the turn of the twentieth century.…
By: Greg on June 21, 2018
Yang’s books Boxers and Saints[1], were both captivating and heart retching at the same time. I am not an avid graphic novel reader so I entered into these books a little leery of what to expect. I was surprised how engaging these books were and how if began a discussion in my circles in ways…
