About Our People
Lisa McMinn’s (Sociology) book, Walking Gently On the Earth (IVP 2010), received a bronze award in the religion category from the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards. The award-winning books, representing the best independently published books from 2010, were selected by a panel of librarian and bookseller judges from across the country.
Douglas Campbell’s (Visual Arts) painting “Magaera” is on exhibit in Art in the City at the River Gallery in Independence, Ore. Also, his ink drawing “Harvest Weave” is in Frames Around Oregon Agriculture, an exhibit at the Coos Museum in Coos Bay, Ore. Finally, his poem “Shiloh” was published in the online journal The Ides of March; another poem, “A Sliding Glass Door,” has been published in the summer issue of The Path.
Tom Head (Economics & International Studies) presented two workshops on “Faith & Economics: Finding Common Ground†at the annual conference of the Fellowship of Reconciliation held this summer in Seabeck, Wash.
Gina Worley (Graduate Admissions) and Sarah King (Enrollment Services) were named the university’s July and August employees of the month, respectively.
The current issue of Hartford Seminary’s journal, Conversations in Religion & Theology, features Ed Higgins’ (Faculty Emeritus) review essay of Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism by Bernard Schweizer (NY: Oxford University Press, 2010). The journal publishes review essays with a corresponding response from the author of the reviewed book. Ed has a PDF of the article for those who are interested in reading it.