Charles W. Hedrick, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University, has recently published a book on the parables of Jesus. The title is Parabolic Figures or Narrative Fictions. Seminal Essays on the Stories of Jesus (Cascade, 2016). Hedrick contends that parables do not teach moral and religious lessons; they are not, in … [Read more...] about Charles Hedrick Publishes New Parables Book
Congratulations to Dr. Patrick A. Beach, Philosophy Instructor, for finishing second in Teaching Ethics’ recent 1,000-word essay competition! The essay was in response to an ethical case study called “The Bus Puzzle”. “The Foolhardy Do-Gooder” appears in Teaching Ethics1 (2016), pp. 135-136. Here's the link to the first page: … [Read more...] about Philosophy Instructor takes second place in essay contest
Erin Smither, a former history master’s student at MSU and currently an archivist at the State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Springfield (in the Meyer Library), has an article in the July 2016 issue of the Missouri Historical Review. The article is called "A Nice Cottage Where We Always Stop: The Branson Lodging Postcards Collection and Ozarks Tourism." It … [Read more...] about Article Published by History Graduate
Please join us in congratulating Brooks Blevins on his recent publication in the prestigious, Journal of Southern History. “Region, Religion, and Competing Visions of Mountain Mission Education in the Ozarks,” Journal of Southern History, LXXXII, No. 1 (Feb. 2016): 59-96. … [Read more...] about History Professor has article published
Dr. Kathleen Kennedy, History Department Head, co-edited a forum with anthropologist, Kathleen Young, on the 30th anniversary of Elaine Scarry’s, “The Body in Pain.” This is now published in Peace and Change. Here is the link to the complete article. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pech.2015.40.issue-4/issuetoc … [Read more...] about Kathleen Kennedy Published in Peace and Change