oregonstate.edu The postmodern value placed on tolerance and diversity today has elevated religious and philosophical pluralism to the status of a prevailing worldview. Religious pluralists argue that there are many paths to the One God. Is such a claim coherent? Christians have historically claimed that Jesus Christ provides unique connection and access to God. Is such a claim justifiable in today?s multicultural world, where there exist so many religious faiths and differences of belief? Our two speakers will present divergent views on this topical issue. Todd Miles is Assistant Professor of Theology and Hermeneutics at Western Seminary in Portland, where he has taught since 2003. He holds BS and MS degrees from OSU in Nuclear Engineering and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was previously a faculty member of the Dorothy Sayers Classiwriting a book is currently writing a book on Christianity and scripture entitled Son and Spirit: A Christian Theology of Religions. Trischa Goodnow is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at Oregon State University, where she has taught since 1993. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of Pittsburgh and a Masters in Communication from Emerson College. She is the author of several scholarly works, including Elements of Parliamentary Debate: A Guide to Public Argument. She is currently coach of the United States Debate Team and Vice-President of the Northwest Communication …
Docuementary about Theodor Geisel, known to the world as Dr Seuss. In this part: – Ted Geisel’s reluctance to commercialise his characters; – his struggle with failing eyesight, and jubilation when it improved; – further health problems as he became older; – his increasing interest in writing for older children (as opposed to the younger readers of the Beginner Books); – his first experience of hostility from the public, following the publication of “The Butter Battle Book” and the subsequent ‘Butter Battle Debate’ which raged in the community; – his receipt of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature; – publication of ‘You’re Only Old Once’ (a book about the frustrations of growing old) and its enormous success. With archive photographs, and some footage from an interview with Ted Geisel in the 1980s, plus memories and comments from Geisel’s friends, colleagues and family members – including his widow, Audrey.
In his breakthrough work of channeled literature, I Am the Word, author and medium Paul Selig recorded an extraordinary program for personal and planetary evolution as humankind awakens to its own divine nature. I Am the Word is an energetic transmission that works directly on its readers to bring them into alignment with the frequency of the Word, which Paul’s guides call the energy of “God in Action.” Paul was born in New York City and received his Master’s Degree from Yale. He had a spiritual experience in 1987 that left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience, he studied a form of energy healing, working at Marianne Williamson’s Manhattan Center for Living and in private practice. In the process, he began to “hear” for his clients, and much of Paul’s work now is as a clairaudient, clairvoyant, channel, and empath. Paul has led channeled energy groups for many years. In 2009 he was invited to channel at the Esalen Institute’s Superpowers symposium, where he was filmed for the upcoming documentary film Authors of the Impossible. He is the subject of the feature-length documentary film Paul & the Word which will be released late summer, 2011. His workshops in 2011 include Edgar Cayce’s ARE in New York City, the Jungian Center in Vermont and the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Calfornia. Also a noted playwright and educator, Paul serves on the faculty of NYU and directs the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College. He …
DATE: Thursday 11/15/2007 SPEAKER: Robert Phillips is the author or editor of some 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, criticism, and belles lettres and publishes in numerous journals. A professor of English, he was director of the Creative Writing Program from 1991 to 1996 honors. In 1998, he was named a John and Rebecca Moore Scholar at the University of Houston. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Fellowships, Texas Institute of Letters membership a 1996 Enron Teaching Excellence Award, and a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Circumstances Beyond Our Control (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
John Bernard is presenting at a conference in Salem, OR. He is the CEO of Masswriting a book is currently writing a book called Managing in the NOW. He has years of experience in management and consulting.