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Gary Tandy (English) and Laura Simmons (Seminary) collaborated on a paper, “Books, Theology, Cats, and Hens: The Correspondence and Friendship of C.S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers.” Gary presented the paper at the C.S. Lewis and Friends Conference at Taylor University June 2-5.
Ed Higgins (English) published a flash fiction, piece, “Kansas Return,†in the June 10, 2016, issue of Danse Macabre, an online literary magazine. He also published his poem “Seascape†in the online magazine Plum Tree Tavern (May 4, 2016), and his article “Quaker Trek: Friends in Contemporary American Science Fiction†appeared in the April 2016 issue of Quaker Higher Education, a publication of the Friends Association for Higher Education. Ed also published three of his Japanese short-form poems – “Tonight’s Half-Moon,†“agonized youth’s rapture†and “spilled wine glass†– in the Spring 2016 issue of The Bamboo Hut Journal of English Language Tanshi. Finally, Ed’s poem “Jalapenos†is part of an installation titled “EAT Literature + Photography†showing through December at Centre College’s Norton Center For The Arts. The installation pairs works by 13 different poets with interpretative photography by noted Kentucky photographer Sarah Jane Sanders. The full photographs and poems exhibit is on display in the Norton Center’s Grand Foyer.
The third central volume among the six in the John, Jesus, and History Project, coedited by Paul Anderson (Christian studies), Felix Just, S.J., and Tom Thatcher, was released this month. Published by the Society of Biblical Literature, John, Jesus, and History, Volume 3: Glimpses of Jesus through the Johannine Lens demonstrates more than two dozen ways in which John contributes to an enhanced understanding of Jesus and his ministry. According to SBL, since it began in 2002, the John, Jesus, and History Project has assessed critically the modern disparaging of John’s historicity and has found this bias wanting.