Tag: Arts & Media

That book was "De Rerum Natura," or "On the Nature of Things," by the ancient Roman writer Lucretius. It was a book of poetry, but also a work of science and philosophy.

I came to this book with much ambivalence. Why does the faith perspective of our president’s matter?

For the majority of her life, Andrea Palpant Dilley, '00, was surrounded by Christian influences. She spent her childhood in Kenya raised by Quaker missionary parents before moving to Spokane, where she was active in a Presbyterian youth group and later attended Whitworth University. Yet when she reached age 23, she says, "I stepped over the threshold of the church and walked away. I had no idea if I would come back."

On Thursday the Compassionate Interfaith Society at Eastern Washington University and the Baha'i Community of Spokane will sponsor a free film screening of "Education Under Fire."

As though the American public was not already terribly polarized and reactive around subjects pertaining to women’s bodies, TIME magazine jumped in this week with a controversial cover: an image of a trim, blonde, good-looking mother nursing a toddler son, accompanied by the caption, “Are you mom enough?”

The The Augsburg Choir, under the direction of Peter Hendrickson, has a long tradition of excellence in choral music and will include Spokane on their 2012 performance tour.

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