Category: University Faculty

  • A Different Sun, by Elaine Neil Orr

    New York: Berkley Books (Penguin), 2013. A Review, by Robert L. Doty This remarkable novel by a graduate of Campbellsville College is a distillation of mission history, and antebellum social life in Georgia. It delves into questions of slavery, mental illness, Yoruba (Nigerian) culture and religion, and the maturation of the human spirit in the…

  • On Prayer

    David Harrity After Hebrews 12:18-29 Who will walk away holding the pieces of my life? These petitions simple forms of desire or disease. Will this ever grow to something I can touch? A darkness. A trumpet. A tempest. A fire. Ingredients to make an easier belief? No, simply moving pieces of our lives. And what…

  • Doll Parts

    An arm in the darkened kitchen corner, a leg in the yard, under the old oak tree. My plastic-molded, smiling face grinning stupidly under the bed. Dust bunnies collect in my blonde hair; doggy chew marks puncture my sea-blue eyes. How can tears streak my cheeks? The cold draft from the floor vent makes my…

  • In Your Prison

    David Harrity Ask for your father’s life and it will be given to you. But treacheries and dreams may be your only inheritance: proud shocks of wheat bowed down, dancing stars— a ladder of smoke. Which will you write down? Learn to scatter wolves, the thimbleful of evil in your brothers. Believe that what seems…

  • Etymology

    David Harrity Try to remember what he taught you: to find North in stars, to drive a nail to wood, to clench a fist to stone, to follow through against the iron of a cheekbone. You may have been a boy, but you remember. That ragged town of coal; a life lived in whistle trills.…

  • To Fear, Fear

    Susan A. Wright The fog curled around the townhouse, seeping in through the window cracks. Jackson rolled over in bed, cursing the thinness of his blankets. The coldness of the mornings always burrowed into his cocoon of sheets, awaking him hours too early and souring his mood. Each day announced itself with a monotonous grayness…

  • The Secular Song of Spain: The Often Overlooked Contribution to European Renaissance Music

    Sarah Gilbert Much research and study has been done on the various art song forms that began to develop throughout Europe during the Renaissance: the solo madrigals and arias of Italy, the lieder of Germany, the chansons of France, and the airs and lute songs of England. In the midst of such research, however, one…

  • Human Trafficking and Teacher Awareness: Equiping Teachers with Knowledge and Resources to Combat Human Trafficking

    By Regan Lookadoo[1] Human Trafficking: A Modern Form of Slavery Human trafficking is a criminal activity that is increasing rapidly throughout the world (Polaris Project, 2014a), and it is estimated to produce yearly profits of $15.5 billion in developed countries alone (International Labor Office Geneva, 2005). Human trafficking is a global problem that is present…

  • 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…