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Books That Have Been on My Mind Lately - Well not all that recently; I need to update this section!
Michael Willett Newheart's Word and Soul: A Psychological, Literary, and Cultural Reading of the Fourth Gospel.
Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (University
of Chicago, 1980).
This book has been on my shelf for years and I'm just now getting around to
really engaging it. Powerful stuff: we humans can't conceptualize much of anything
without some sort of metaphor to plug us into a familiar gestalt. There's a
worthwhile piece about Lakoff's latest book, and an interview with him, at "'Philosophy
in the Flesh,' A Talk With George Lakoff." A great companion piece is from
the August 1991 Friends Journal,
"A Question about Peace: All is not well in garden of language" by
George E. Keenen. I'm hoping to get permission to post this article on the web.
A Turn in the South, by V.S. Naipaul (Knopf, 1989).
Naipaul is one of my favorite authors; he grew up in Trinidad, to which his
family had immigrated from India. He was educated at Oxford and has lived most
of his life in Britain. He travels and writes about all sorts of international,
intercultural subjects, and has a keen eye, insightful mind and truly cross-cultural
perspective. This book is about the U.S. South, and describes Southern people,
history, and culture by way of many very particular individuals.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, by David Hackett Fischer
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
I've seen this weighty tome at the library and heard it mentioned in Quaker
circles for years, but just recently got around to reading it. It's "cultural
history" and describes the history, culture, and outcomes of 4 distinct groups
of British immigrants to what is now the United States:
Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood, by Kristin Luker (Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1984).
This is a book I keep coming back to. Even though a lot of the specifics are
out of date, it really helps the reader get a feel for the different worldviews
that go with opposing opinions about abortion. I've also recently been reading
Luker's Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (Harvard,
1996).
25 Facts about the Dead Sea Scrolls
I've been learning html and putting up web pages for myself and others at an accelerating pace. I'd love to hear from others who find themselves similarly situated.. Here are some of my recent efforts, in addition to this Peace Church Bible Study Home Page of course:
Friends Theological College, Kaimosi, Kenya
Quaker Theological Discussion Group
My Bethany Seminary page - course materials for New Testament Greek, Intro to Biblical Studies, and other courses I'm scheduled to teach
Friendly Bible Study Online version of Joanne & Larry Spears pamphlet, long popular among Friends. I'm hoping to get permission to post others of my favorite print resources for public use.
Lake Erie Yearly Meeting Bible Study notes June 2002; unfortunately I haven't gotten around to posting the handouts for subsequent years. And I stopped leading the Bible Studies a few years ago.
Workshop materials for the "Vocal Ministry and the Bible" workshop I presented at a Friends conference September 2002.
1. Susan Jeffers the Childrens Book Illustrator. A couple of the books she's illustrated: Mc Duff's New Friend | Hiawatha
2. Susan Jeffers the Workshop Leader and Self Help Book Author. My favorite title is "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway!" -- and then there's "I'm OK, You're a Brat!"
3. Susan Jeffers the British soap opera character; she appears in Coronation Street, "the most popular soap opera in Britain."
4. Susan Jeffers the Registered Nurse coordinating cancer drug trials -- or she was back in about 1996 anyway!
5. Susan Jeffers b. 1816 in Kentucky and who knows how many more of us there are and have been?
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Lego-esque self-portraits produced with the help of the http://www.reasonablyclever.com "Mini-Mizer: Picture Yourself in Plastic" tool.