Submitted on May 15, 2013, to Amy Laura Hall in partial fulfillment of the Gender, Theology, and Ministry Certificate. It was pa On November 17, 2004 I walked into the chow hall of Forward Operating Base McHenry in Northern Iraq, near the city of Hawijah. In the wee ours of

Submitted on December 7, 2010, to Amy Laura Hall in partial fulfillment of Christian Ethics: Love in the Christian Tradition (CE144). When the couch of death is prepared for you, when you go to bed never to get up again, and they are only waiting for you to turn to

Submitted on November 9, 2010, to Amy Laura Hall in partial fulfillment of Christian Ethics: Love in the Christian Tradition (CE144). The most powerful imagery in my reading of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead has been the communion experience in the midst of the ruins of a church struck by lightning.

Submitted on October 7, 2010, to Amy Laura Hall in partial fulfillment of Christian Ethics: Love in the Christian Tradition (CE144). In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, names are a crucial and central marking, stylistically and literally.  It might seem contradictory at first glance, but the importance of naming runs