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Phil Smith (Religious Studies/Professor of Philosophy) will present a paper, “Good Believing: Practical Epistemology in Eleven Moves,” at the Northwest Conference on Philosophy at Oregon State University Oct. 26-27. Also at the conference, he will comment on a paper by Majid Amini (Virginia State University) called “Can the Maximal God Save God?” Phil is also scheduled to guest lecture in Peter Boghossian’s atheism class at Portland State on Oct. 25. The lecture, entitled “Why Faith is a Virtue,” presents core ideas from Phil’s soon-to-be-published book of the same title.

Ed Higgins (English) published three poems – “theodicy,” “I feed my dog” and “Later now, but” – in the fall 2012 issue of Graze, a semi-annual Chicago literary magazine.

Jamie Johnson (Spiritual Life) and Steve Sherwood (Religious Studies) will be participating in Northwest Yearly Meeting’s annual Youth Workers Conference, scheduled in Hood River Nov. 2-4.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) appeared on the “Plus or Minus 60” television show in Canton, Ohio, speaking on the Gospel of John (Sept. 24) and delivered five presentations on “New Testament Visions of Cross-Cultural Ministry” at the Missional Leadership Conference at Barclay College in Haviland, Kan. (Sept. 25-27). Paul also presented an apprentice workshop at the Renovare Conference in Wichita, Kan., on “The Congregational Discernment Project” (Sept. 28) and preached at University Friends Church (Sept. 30). Finally, Paul has been at work at getting Elton Trueblood’s book Abraham Lincoln; Lessons in Spiritual Leadership back in print. It will appear this month from HarperOne, in advance of Steven Spielberg’s movie on Lincoln, due out in November.

Clint Baldwin (Center for Peace and Justice/Center for Global Studies) is presenting at the Center for Environmental Leadership’s second annual symposium at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., Oct. 12-13. The event brings together sustainability coordinators, staff, faculty and administrators actively engaged in campus sustainability efforts at Christian colleges and universities (watch this video to learn more). The CEL also will host a workshop (“Faith Based Sustainability”) at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s annual conference in Los Angeles on Oct. 17.

Mark McMinn (PsyD) is a featured speaker at a symposium, “Into the Counseling Room: Five Approaches to Counseling and Christianity,” hosted by the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought and Practice and Richmont Graduate University Nov. 2-3 in Chattanooga, Tenn. The goal of the symposium is to explore the diverse ways and tensions of relating Christian faith and counseling to people in a clinical setting, according to Bryan Institute Director Daryl Charles. More information is available here.

Roger Newell (Religious Studies) presented on his book, The Feeling Intellect: Reading the Bible with C.S. Lewis, at the Northwest School of Theology (part of Multnomah University) in Bend, Ore., Sept. 28-30.

Carol Jaquith (Psychology) was named September Employee of the Month.

Lindsay Peterson (Admissions) accepted her Administrator of the Year Award at the all-employee meeting Sept. 27. Lindsay was vacationing and unable to attend the August all-community meeting when the 2011-12 administrator and staff award recipients were recognized.

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