When the Trumpet Call is Unclear: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Speech That Launched the Jesus Seminar

Since the Jesus Seminar has become almost iconic in religious media coverage, it merits academic scrutiny. This article focuses on the Seminar\u27s inaugural address given by founder Robert Funk on March 21, 1985, at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. In that address, Funk set forth the Seminar\u27s mission and method that has guided the association ever since. The main thesis of this article is that clues to the Seminar\u27s successes and failures may be found in Funk\u27s inaugural address, which may be uncovered through a text-in-context analysis of the speech

Weighted Ricci curvature estimates for Hilbert and Funk geometries

We consider Hilbert and Funk geometries on a strongly convex domain in the Euclidean space. We show that, with respect to the Lebesgue measure on the domain, Hilbert (resp. Funk) metric has the bounded (resp. constant negative) weighted Ricci curvature. As one of corollaries, these metric measure spaces satisfy the curvature-dimension condition in the sense of Lott, Sturm and Villani.Comment: 12 page

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Postcard from Linnaea Funk, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuado

Traditional Funk: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Practical Study of Funk Music in Dayton, Ohio

Recognized nationally as the funk capital of the world, Dayton, Ohio takes credit for birthing important funk groups (i.e. Ohio Players, Zapp, Heatwave, and Lakeside) during the 1970s and 80s. Through a combination of ethnographic and archival research, this paper offers a pedagogical approach to Dayton funk, rooted in the styles and works of the city’s funk legacy. Drawing from fieldwork with Dayton funk musicians completed over the summer of 2019 and pedagogical theories of including black music in the school curriculum, this paper presents a pedagogical model for funk instruction that introduces the ingredients of funk (instrumentation, form, groove, and vocals) in order to enable secondary school music programs to create their own funk rooted in local history. This pedagogical approach expands music education learning by providing students with a diverse curriculum that stresses the importance of African-American popular music, specifically Dayton funk, within an educational setting