by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Feb 16, 2022 | AmCon, Uncategorized
Reading Jill LePore (always a pleasure) on King Philip’s war and the early development of American identity requires thinking again about the ways in which identity formation involves both self and other. Kasdorf’s exploration focused our attention on the...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Feb 12, 2022 | AmCon
We read Julia Kasdorf’s lovely essay that begins with her memories of Mennonite community. In it she explores the ways in which being a self requires an other who can see one whole as it is impossible to do for one’s self. That insight gives a positive...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Feb 9, 2022 | AmCon
02/09/2022 The first day of the “spring” semester in Borders and Empires. It was my first time with these students. We read Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” (1914) and Darrel Alejandro Holnes, “Amending Wall.” The later makes...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Mar 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
This is the topic that took me away from Gertrude Sovik for a few weeks, though her life offers its own window on the topic in the 20th century. Global Lutheranism was a major focus of my previous sabbatical, so I was pleased to be able to both make use of that work...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Mar 16, 2016 | Lutheran, Uncategorized
No posts since October!! That does not mean that I’ve not been at the work of my sabbatical. (I write that with some irony, bearing in mind that the origin of the term is related to Sabbath which includes rest.) No posts rather is an indication that I have...
