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  • A Fascination with Element 60, Neodymium

    Roscoe C. Bowen, Peter A. Adcock, Sara Bonaccorsi, and Jean Oostens Introduction. A physicist visiting a health food store in the 1990s was intrigued to find a new kind of incandescent light bulb that claimed to have the ability to trick a person’s brain into stopping the production of melatonin in the morning, even when…

  • Inspiring a Story: A Personal Experience with Jesse Stuart

    Glen Edward Taul “Today I have not written a story I planned to write. This has taken one of our last days in time allotted to us to live. But John Preston has been worth every minute of it.” Jesse Stuart[1]        As I traveled across W-Hollow toward Stuart’s home, there was an air of…

  • The Stories (and Life) of Breece D’J Pancake

    Nathan Gower[1] Breece D’J Pancake was a West Virginian and a fiction writer, notably in that order. He wrote only twelve short stories – published posthumously as The Stories of Brecce D’J Pancake – in his brief twenty-six years on Earth, each of them populated with the piercing, beautiful, and often haunting characters of his…

  • The Making of Violence: Motives, Means, and Masculinity

    Mary Jane Chaffee[1] “By self and violent hands” (Macbeth 5.9.36) With those words[2] Malcom describes Lady Macbeth’s supposed suicide, which functions on the dramatic level as a satisfying if bleak end to her mayhem and Macbeth’s ambition. But I would argue that the phrase “self and violent hands”—conjoining the important elements of self and violence—rounds…

  • The Cotton Grove Resolutions

    Joe Early, Jr., One of the more important meetings in Southern Baptist history took place at the Cotton Grove Baptist Church in the west Tennessee town of Cotton Grove on June 24, 1851. The meeting was called by James Robinson Graves who was serving as the editor of the Tennessee Baptist. As a result of…

  • Who Moved My Old Landmark? Changing Definitions of Landmarkism in the Early Twentieth Century

    Christopher Bart Barber Lecture, Baptist Heritage Lecture Series Campbellsville University 18 March 2014 Introduction The most powerful theological force in the Western two-thirds of the Southern Baptist Convention at the turn of the twentieth century was Landmarkism. From the Llano Estacado to the banks of the Cumberland, from the Ozark Plateau to the Gulf Coast…

  • Sleeping Among the Natives The Moravian Missions to Shekomeko and Pachgatoch

    John R. Burch, Jr., PhD From 1734 to 1782, few missionary groups had as much success in attracting Native Americans to Christianity as the Reformed Unitas Fratrum, popularly known as the Moravians. Their success was achieved by their effective efforts to relate to the suffering of native peoples and living among them, which was viewed…

  • From the Editor

    Within these covers of The Campbellsville Review’s seventh issue, there is a variety of writing that reflects the intellectual interests of the Campbellsville University community. There are articles on history, science, literary commentary, a social issue, and music history; creative works that include a short story and poems, and a book review. Every contributor has…

  • Published Works By Faculty and Staff (2015-2016)

    During the past two years, members of Campbellsville University’s faculty have authored and co-authored many published books, articles, stories, and reviews. A listing of these publications follows. Lisa Allen Creating culturally relevant teachers: Influences from a Mayan primary school in Belize. The Online Journal of Counseling and Education 4, no. 6 (2015): 90-110. Special educator…

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HYMN TUNES OF RALPH MANUEL

    Abstract Claudiane Florencio Soares de Barros, M.A. Campbellsville University Chairperson: Dr. M. Wesley Roberts The purpose of this study has been to create a reference source of information regarding the hymn tunes of Ralph Manuel (b. 1951) for practical and scholarly use. Manuel served as a music missionary in northeastern Brazil for twenty-four years and…