{"id":35296,"date":"2015-12-14T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T23:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/?p=35296"},"modified":"2015-12-14T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T23:48:57","slug":"about-our-people-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/2015\/12\/14\/about-our-people-172\/","title":{"rendered":"About Our People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Debbie Berh\u00c3\u00b3<\/strong> (Spanish) and former George Fox communications professor <strong>Charles Choi<\/strong> recently published an article they coauthored, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ethnic Identity Maintenance within the Latino-American Church: A Structuration Perspective,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the <em>Journal of Intercultural Communication Research<\/em> (November 2015). Debbie also made two presentations related to her research on Spanish-speaking Protestant churches in Oregon. In October, she presented \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not Segregated: Mutual Collaboration and Shared Worship among Spanish- and English-speaking Congregations of Oregon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and in November she presented \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cantando our own songs: Worship music in evangelical Latino churches\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.<\/p>\n<p>A paper cowritten by <strong>Sue O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell<\/strong> (Psychology), <strong>Kelly Chang<\/strong> (Psychology) and <strong>Kristen Miller<\/strong> (PsyD alumna), titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Relations Among Autonomy, Attribution Style, and Happiness in College Students, was referenced in a national piece published on the news magazine site Inc.com. The Inc.com article, titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/christina-desmarais\/5-daily-habits-that-can-radically-improve-your-satisfaction-with-life.html\">5 Daily Habits That Can Radically Improve Your Satisfaction with Life<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d states, in Habit No. 3 (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Take control of your life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153researchers at George Fox University in Oregon found a relationship between people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perceived levels of autonomy and the way they think about success or failure. In other words, the happiest people are those who feel they have control over their lives and not powerless to the things that have happened to them over time, whether good or bad.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>An article <strong>Nate Peach<\/strong> (Business) and alumnus <strong>Luke Petach<\/strong> cowrote was published in <em>Economic Development Quarterly<\/em>. Luke was awarded a Richter grant to do the research in 2012, and it has taken three years to get the final paper, titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Development and Quality of Life in Cities,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d published. Luke is now pursuing a PhD in economics at Colorado State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick Allen<\/strong> (Education) published the book <em>Morning Resolve: To Live a Simple, Sincere, and Serene Life<\/em> through Wipf &amp; Stock Publishers. In addition, Patrick and <strong>Ken Badley<\/strong> (Education) recently sent a manuscript to Abilene Christian University Press. That book, <em>Voices from the Past: Wisdom for the Future of Christian Higher Education<\/em>, will be released next fall. It is the second book they wrote together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin T. Jones<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Birdsell<\/strong> (Department of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts) presented \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Embracing opportunities to change lives: Teaching at-risk high school students communication competence skills through facework and improved self-monitoring\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the National Communication Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual conference Nov. 12-16 in Las Vegas. The paper explored the results of a yearlong study of working with at-risk students and teaching them more effective communication skills to help pull them out of their at-risk status.\u00c2\u00a0The paper received the &#8220;Top 4 Paper&#8221; in the conference award from the Communication Apprehension and Competence Division.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Jones presented a second paper at the conference titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Teaching the value of narratives in speeches through analysis of presidential campaign discourse,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which explored Barrack Obama&#8217;s successful use of narratives in the 2008 Presidential election campaign to connect with the general public, helping him to his landslide victory.\u00c2\u00a0The paper demonstrated how John McCain failed to engage narratives in his campaign rhetoric, which contributed to his demise in the election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Anderson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/strong> (Christian Studies) essay, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Johannine Logos-Hymn: A Cross-Cultural Celebration of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Creative-Redemptive Work,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was published in <em>Creation Stories in Dialogue: The Bible, Science, and Folk Traditions: Radboud Prestige Lectures<\/em> <em>by R. Alan Culpepper<\/em> last week. In addition, Paul helped organize an international conference on John and Judaism at the McAfee School of Theology\u00c2\u00a0in Atlanta in November, at which he presented his paper \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Antisemitism and Religious Violence as Flawed Interpretations of the Gospel of John.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Paul will assist Alan Culpepper in editing the papers into a book. Also, at the national Society of Biblical Literature Meetings in Atlanta, 14 years of the John, Jesus, and History Project were reviewed. Paul is a founding member of that Project and editor of eight of its 12 volumes, to be finalized over the next several years (johannine.org\/JJH-2016.html). Finally, Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essay, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Testimonies of Truth: Who Are the Quakers, and What Do They Believe,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was published this week in <em>Christian History<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joel Kelley<\/strong> (Data Analytics) was selected as the December Employee of the Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Berh\u00c3\u00b3 (Spanish) and former George Fox communications professor Charles Choi recently published an article they coauthored, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ethnic Identity Maintenance within the Latino-American Church: A Structuration Perspective,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research (November 2015). Debbie also made two presentations related to her research on Spanish-speaking Protestant churches in Oregon. 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