Pastoral

Rwanda has been known as a place of major improvement in Africa in the past decade. It is a country seen by western society as a place that is prospering among many that appear hopeless. Rwanda has not always been this way, and in many ways, it is still struggling. In the past century this nation has gone through struggle after struggle. Rwanda was initially colonized by Germany in 1884 and remained a colony until 1919. After Germany’s defeat in World War I, the country was forced to…

London’s novella Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck’s transformation from a domesticated pet on a vast Santa Clara Valley estate to the primal killer he becomes in the bitter regions of the Klondike wilderness. London delivers Buck’s journey in a plot consisting of only three simple, but major, events and uses settings and narration to tell the story in a way that allows a reader to easily become invested in Buck’s character from the viewpoint of a loyal and lovable pet, as well as, that…

In the film The God’s Must Be Crazy directed by Jamie Uys, there are many technical elements that contribute to the theme of the movie, such as the sound, acting, and setting. The way Uys has directed the film helps the technical elements come together and connect to the theme. It is difficult but not impossible to interact and communicate with people of different societies with different technologies. A prime example would be the setting and how it contributes to the different societies.…

inches. Painted in the 16th century, The Madonna and Child with a Female Saint and the Infant Saint John the Baptist but since 1986 finds its home at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The canvas is a horizontal painting of holy figures in a pastoral landscape. Because of the title of this work we know that depicted are the Christ child carried by the Virgin Mary with a female saint embracing the child along with Saint John the Baptist as an infant to the right. Titian placed the…

University in Ames, Iowa and obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1958. That same year he married Barbara Jeanne Nystrom and together they had three children. Vine Deloria Jr. found no career in natural science and decided to follow his family’s pastoral…

Figure 10 breaks down the percentage of youth attending Christian Formation groups per church size. Thus, Figure 10 compares youth as a percent among other age groups. The conference average percentage of youth per total CF participation is 16%. This demonstrates a progression of youth participation toward medium churches. In fact, Groups 100-134 and 135-199 have 31% of the conference’s total youth and 22% of the conference’s weekly attendees. Figure 11 – Young Adults as a % of Church’s Total…

seminary and train for the ministry. It was clear to me at the time that it focused me. As I continued my Master’s thesis, I asked about the ministry and visited the seminary in Saint Louis. I visited a few of the classes, interacted with other pastoral candidates, seminarians, and the professors. I absorbed as much of the seminary that I could in a single weekend. It was serene, as it gave me a sense of peace as I walked the grounds. It was the closest feeling that I have ever been able to…

Annotated Bibliography 2 The scholarly, peer-reviewed article "Human Chances for Happiness: A Review of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents" was written by Donald Capps and Nathan Carlin and was published in Volume 62, Issue 3, of the journal Pastoral Psychology in April 2012. I accessed the article through the University of West Florida library’s online database. In order to find the article on the UWF library’s website, go to the “Academic OneFile” database under “A-Z Database List.” To…

In the late 1700s, prominent writers Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith used satire to rile their contemporaries against flaws in their society. Today's writers rarely possess the literary genius and flair these two men had, but the topics they cover are often similar. Controversies of personal identity, terrorism, and climate change, all common in the news today, share many aspects of the social issues that Swift and Goldsmith dealt with in their time. Identity politics concerns the large…

and predictably up until he was given a job that plunges him into a secretive conflict between the government and an organization of information pirates called “the Factory”. Needless to say, the End of the World Chapter was more of quiet chapter, pastoral fantasyscape centered around a small town, as well surrounded by an enormous, insurmountable wall, kind of like that Simpson Episode. In this chapter, the protagonist of this side of the story had recently come to the area and then goes on to…