About Our People
Tom Head’s (School of Business/International Studies Program) essay, “Envisioning a Moral Economy,†was recently published by Pendle Hill. The piece tackles such questions as “What is the place of moral values in the way we structure our economy?†and “Should the teachings of Jesus be considered when we address such questions as ‘How is work fashioned?’ ‘What do we own?’ and ‘Where do we live?’â€
Through a M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust grant ($405,000) for Christian school capacity building, Gary Kilburg and Scot Headley (School of Education) have been serving K-12 Christian schools in Oregon and Washington through the SOE’s Mentoring Institute. The institute’s Christian School Leadership Program is providing mentoring and professional development services involving more than 100 educators in about 25 schools. The program will continue into its third year during the 2010-11 academic year.
Rob Felton (Marketing Communications) has been elected to the board of the Newberg Downtown Coalition as president. The NDC follows the National Main Street four-step approach (organization, design, promotion and economic restructuring) to revitalizing downtown commercial districts. An organizing meeting for the NDC is planned for Monday, March 1, at 6:30 p.m. in Hoover 102.
Scot Headley and Linda Samek (School of Education), along with Sean McKay (IT), have been serving on the steering committee for the International Community of Christians in Teacher Education. The committee has been working on a draft constitution and bylaws for the formation of an association of teacher educators affiliated primarily with CCCU institutions. The group is working toward creating a formal association at the biennial conference of the ICCTE, hosted in May of 2010 at LeTourneau University. Headley and Samek are set to assume leadership roles with the new association, beginning two-year terms in May.
Linda Samek (School of Education) presented a session, “Creating and Sustaining Change with Boyer’s Scholarship of Application,†at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Atlanta on Feb. 21. Karen Buchanan (School of Education) also presented a workshop at the conference, teaming up with colleagues from four other institutions to present “Assessment Literacy for the 21st Century.â€
Ed Higgins (English) published a poem, “A Slow Wisdom,†in the February issue of The Bicycle Review, an online literary journal.
Debbie Berhó (Communication Arts/Foreign Languages) had an article, “Communication, Language Learning and Faith,†published in the online journal Didache: Faithful Teaching, Volume 9, No. 2.
Some of Tim Timmerman’s (Visual Arts) art appears in the current Winter 2009-10 issue of Ruminate, a print magazine of faith in literature and art.
Paul Anderson’s (Religious Studies) essay, “The John, Jesus, and History Project – New Glimpses of Jesus and a Bi-Optic Hypothesis,†was published on the Bible and Interpretation website (bibleinterp.com/articles/john1357917.shtml), a biblical studies site that receives more than 300,000 visits per month. Also, on Feb. 11, Anderson’s work was featured on the “Matters of Faith†weblog by Bill Tammaeus, in his article, “A New Way to Find Jesus.†The article references a major essay forthcoming in the March issue of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus by James Charlesworth of Princeton Theological Seminary, who cites Anderson’s work in signaling a paradigm shift in Jesus studies, overturning 150 years of critical scholarship – from ignoring John to including John.
Anderson will speak on “The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel†at Reedwood Friends Church April 21-May 26 (six Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8 p.m.), and on “The Beast, the Antichrist, and 666†at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (four Wednesday evenings, 7-8:30 p.m.) in Portland. All are welcome.