For Our Sakes: An Incarnational and Systemic Approach to the Challenge of Poverty

How do Christians face the challenge of poverty? This paper proposes a grace-based approach to poverty. By recognizing our poverty and how God has shown grace to us, we are inspired to care for the poverty of others. The problem of the poor, which includes us, is not material poverty but broken relationships. Solving poverty requires that one enter into the world of the poor person and to see the richness that they have, even in their material poverty. The entire system of broken relationships must be repaired and the goal must be the restoration of shalom. We will therefore treat poverty in both systemic and holistic ways

The Ecclesiological Implications of the Priesthood of All Believers

The Protestant Reformation encouraged the priesthood of all believers but how does that concept impact the local church in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination? The lack of a clear ecclesiology has hampered the growth and effectiveness of Adventism. Both Exodus 19:6 and 1 Peter 2:9 provide a theological hermeneutic for how to reframe our ecclesiology in a way consistent with the Protestant principle of every believer serving as a priest. Priests are teachers, holy representatives, and mediators. The practical implications of these three aspects are examined. Luther\u27s struggle with papal power structures are examined in the light of his radical understanding of New Testament priesthood. The implications of reorienting ecclesiastical power around laity instead of priests, and the challenge of providing organization and leadership are investigated. Finally, an eschatological vision of the importance of the priesthood of all believers points to the task of God\u27s church at the end of time

Microcomputers and the Hotel Executive

Microcomputers are emerging as a potent source for decision- making for hotel management. This article provides the hotel executive with a short course on the possibilities of microcomputers in his or her everyday work

A preliminary survey of fungi at the UWM Field Station

Three previous accounts of fungi occurring at the Field Station have appeared in the Bulletin. The first inventory of seventy-five species, including 29 plant pathogens, was published by Baxter (1970). Baxter and Bronaugh (1974) isolated four species of aquatic Hyphomycetes during their study of this group in southeastern Wisconsin. Ciombor and Dibben (1984) identified 29 fungi, 23 of which had not been previously reported. In addition, Baxter (1973) listed the following five fungi as new records for Wisconsin, but did not indicate where they were collected. The present paper reports 71 species, 46 of which are new records. Also included is a summary of all taxa, 147 species, that have been recorded from the Field Station to date. The groups represented include 8 Myxomycetes, 10 Deuteromycetes , 25 Ascomycetes , 33 Agaricales , 38 Aphyl1ophorales , 4 Gasteromycetes, and 28 Heterobasidiomycetes

Discipleship as Means to Reinvent Higher Education

This paper exams the purpose of Adventist Higher Education and how it can be achieved. It suggests that the purpose of Christian education is to transform believers into the image of Christ. It contrasts contemporary Christian education with Ellen White’s vision of education and suggests that current models of education, especially in General Education, fall far short of this ideal. The paper concludes that character development, the transmission of strong biblical values and the holistic development of the overall person should be the purpose of Adventist higher education. The paper then suggests that the most effective way to accomplish this vision of education is through discipleship. The methods of Jesus’ discipleship model are explored and implications of this model are applied to contemporary education. Three particular areas are emphasized: (a) service learning; (b) community experiences through cohorts; and (c) experiential learning. The author also uses two theorists of religious education, Groome and Browning, to develop a four-stage process of experiential learning in the classroom

Additions to the fungi of the UWM Field Station

A preliminary checklist totaling 147 species of fungi identified from the Field Station was published recently (Parker, 1987). Extensive collecting in the beech-maple hardwoods and one trip into the cedar-tamarack swamp during July-October 1987 have provided records of an additional 54 species. Among the fungi identified during 1987 are the following noteworthy taxa: Thuemenella cubispora (Ellis & Holw.) Boedjn - Ascomycetes, Hypocreale

Alan Michael Parker: 10-27-2004

Alan Michael Parker begins the interview by reading his poem “The Work.” He goes on to discuss his early poetic influences, such as his own mother and the array of books she kept in his house when he was young, including books by poets such as Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandberg, and Robert Frost. Other early influences include professors from his undergraduate studies as well as popular culture and commercialism. Parker touches on how empty space and the unsaid is important in poetry and discusses how the imagery of male power in his work is a rhetoric device. The interview concludes with the last poem in his collection Love Songs, titled “Wheel, O Wheel.”https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/writers_videos/1002/thumbnail.jp

A preliminary survey of the fungi of Sapa spruce bog

An extensive study of the fungi of Sapa Spruce Bog was started during the summer of 1989. The site was divided into three collecting zones the swamp hardwoods surrounding the bog, the tamrac and black spruce zone, and the central, open sphagnum mat zone. Greatest species diversity has been observed in the swamp hardwoods; many fungi identified from this zone have also been recorded from the Field Station beech/maple woods (Parker, 1987 and 1988). Factors contributing to the greater diversity of fungi in this zone include the composition of leaf litter and humus, the larger amount of downed logs in various stages of decay, and the variety of tree species with their associated mycorrhizal and wood-rotting fungi. The following 57 species are reported as new records from Sapa Spruce Bog. A number of small gill mushroom taxa remain to be identified. Specimens of most taxa have been deposited in the mycological herbarium of the Milwaukee Public Museum (MIL)