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Ttos BETHEL UNIVERSITY L'. -VJARY ^4jfONG FRIENDS VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1 AUTUMN 2006 SET SAIL WITH US AT HOMECOMING 2006! FRIENDS OF THE By: Verena Larson John has led a rich and inter Of course there will be LIBRARY esting life which you can read refreshments and time to chat We will be Sailing into the HOMECOMING about below. with other Friends. Sea of Knowledge as we highlight OPEN HOUSE the benefits and joys of lifelong We will also hear how learning. other Friends have made life long learning an important SATURDAY Bethel Friend, John Law part of their lives, experienc yer, has donated his Great SEPTEMBER 30 ing everything from scuba Courses series to the library. diving to Elderhostel. 10:00-11:30 This extensive collection of videos and CDs covers a wide We'll invite you to share BETHEL variety of topics in religion, your experiences and questions UNIVERSITY philosophy, history, music, on your voyage of lifelong LIBRARY drama, and more. John will learning. Be thinking about tell us how he discovered what you have learned since See you September 30th! them, how he uses them, and leaving school and what you what he gets out of them. still want to learn. BETHEL FACULTY CORNER By: Nancy Olson versity of Delaware while he land studying the impact of INSIDE THIS ISSUE: was based at Dover Air Force current changes in Europe and Friend of the BUL and Be Base. In 1970, he obtained a Russia on U.S. foreign policy. thel University Professor, John Master of Public Administra BETHEL FACULTY 2 E. Lawyer, Ph.D., Fletcher But, Dr. Lawyer has other tion from Harvard's John F. CORNER (CONT.) School of Law and Diplomacy lifelong learning interests very Kennedy School of Govern at Harvard University, per different from the interna BOOKS FROM 2 ment. Before coming to Bethel sonifies commitment to life tional political scene. He FRIENDS he served at the Pentagon as long learning. He has taught at served as a Visiting Scholar in the Country Director for CONFESSIONS OF A 3 Bethel since 1976, specializing the Celtic Christianity Pro BOOKWORM Southern Europe in the Office in international politics and gram at the University of of the Secretary of Defense. As REFLECTIONS ON A 4 developing Bethel's Interna Wales where he studied Chris Lt. Col. in the Air Force, VERY STRANGE YEAR tional Relations Program. tian community in Celtic tradi where he served on the Air tion and contemporary Celtic GREAT COURSES Staff in the Air Force Director Dr. Lawyer began his life politics of Scotland, Ireland SERIES ate of Plans, he worked on long learning career by receiv and Wales. He has taken a 10- Arms Control Negotiations. DEAR FRIENDS.. ing his A.B., with honors, day retreat to the Iona Com From 1991-1992, he was a from Harvard University in munity on the West Coast of 1960. In 1965, he earned an visiting scholar at the Univer LIBRARY MA in English from the Uni sity of Kent, Canterbury, Eng (Continued on page 2) FOOTNOTES PAGE 2 AMONG FRIENDS BETHEL FACULTY CORNER, CONT. "LAWYER'S SUBJECT (Continued from page 1) Dr. Lawyer has written ex EXPERTISE AND tensively on the subjects of Scotland where he lived in a FIRST-HAND Celtic spirituality, Christian restored 11th Century Norman EXPERIENCES community, and political sci abbey. He has also made a pil BROUGHT ence. He has been published in grimage across the island of lona. RELEVANCY TO MY the Anglican Theological Review, EXPERIENCES In 1991, he was a Resident The American Benedictine Review, ABROAD" * Fellow at the Institute for Ecu Religious Studies Review, Fides et Brent Bohne menical and Cultural Research at Historia, Cistercian Studies Quar- (Bethel Alumnus) St. John's University in College- terlv, Christian Scholars Review, Counselor for ville, Minnesota where he exam Paradigms, Christianity Today, The Standard, Contacts, The Reformed Administrative Affairs ined the role of religious values Journal, Air University Review, etc. in the Consulate, in politics. From St. John's He has also presented at dozens Tashkent, Uzbekistan School of Theology he earned a Certificate of Spirituality. of conferences, seminars, and (*Bethel Focus, Spring '03) lectures throughout his career. BOOKS FROM FRIENDS By: Rhonda Gilbraith (Relient K); Nothing is Sound Psalms: A Book of Twentieth- (Switchfoot); and Restored Century Elegy. In the more In recent years we've made (Jeremy Camp). Now, when general encouragement category very concerted efforts to make students wander in before a are these classics that we inexpli the Library a place not only for weekend or break looking for cably didn't own, or that were research needs but also for com a little diversion, they've got so well-thumbed that they fort, community, and even en something close at hand. needed replacing: OS. Lewis's tertainment. I know they'll be pleased. Surprised by Joy, Elisabeth Last spring we mentioned Elliot's Through Gates of In a year that some of the categories that Splendor, and Brother Law in which we we'd targeted for purchase with rence's Practice of the Pres ost dear our Friends dollars were DVDs ence of God. No self-respecting friend and and CDS of the just-for-fun vari collection of Christian spiritual colleague ety. Well, we've done it— ity should be without these, and Connie Lar we've made a little foray in that now, thanks to you, it isn't. son, in which direction, and these are some of our beloved Your membership dues and the titles we've added: |DVDs| colleague gifts continue to enrich our col The Lion the Witch and the Carol Hansen endured a devas lections in many directions. In Wardrobe; the recent Oscar tating accident and grueling re case you ever get the urge to Best Picture winner, Crash; hab, in which we all witnessed teach yourself Swahili, stop by. Munich; Pride &L Prejudice; the destruction and suffering of we have a The Lord of the Rings trilogy; Katrina and its aftermath, as well book to show Good Night and Good Luck; as another year of war in Iraq, you, courtesy Capote; Walk the Line; Brave- we've been drawn to books that of our heart; The Notebook; Harry offer spiritual balm for seasons of Friends... Potter and the Goblet of Fire; grief and pain. The Friends' fund and March of the Penguins. purchased books like Luminous [CDs] Another Journal Entry Dusk: Finding God in the (Barlowgirl); Beauty from Deep, Still Places, and Sorrow Pain (Superchick); Mmhmm VOLUME 7, NUMBER PAGE 3 CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKWORM Book Review by: Corrigan argues that the adven The roles of women and the Verena Larson tures of 19th century female importance of work are com characters were every bit as bined in Corrigan's third type, "Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: extreme and heroic as those of the "secular-martyr stories" she Finding and Losing Myself in Books" by Maureen Corrigan more celebrated male heroes. read as a young Catholic girl in The difference is that the 19* parochial school. The books Ebooks, MySpace, Wilds, century women characters suf carry the message of "hard work Blogs . .doesn't anyone read fered, endured, and triumphed and self-sacrifice, deference to the old fashioned way anymore? quietly and alone in their roles as others, and service to society". Maureen Corrigan does. She wife, mother, caretaker. They These are the same themes she reads and reads and reads in her also anticipate the development finds in the women's extreme- capacity as book critic for Na of the 20th Century female detec adventure stories and the hard tional Public Radio's "Fresh Air". tive characters created by Agatha boiled detective novels that cap She reads to write a column Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, tured her interest in graduate about mystery books for the P.D. James, Marcia Muller, and school. Washington Post, to contribute others. reviews and essays to other pub Corrigan expands on her lications, and to teach literature themes by telling stories of piv at Georgetown University. otal moments in her own life as u* a student, mother, caretaker, In her first book, Leave me LEAVE ME ALONB and worker. Of particular inter "LEAVE ME I'M READING alone, I'm reading, Maureen Cor est is her extreme-adventure tale rigan credits her father, an avid leading up to the adoption other ALONE, reader, and her mother, a non- daughter in China. I'M reader, for the powerful hold that books have had in her life. The author also analyzes many of READING." Her mother didn't like to read, the books that exemplify her but she was a listener. Corrigan themes, and they are listed in a tried hard to convince her that useful topical arrangement at the reading was not a waste of time. end of the volume. "Working for a living" is the From an early age she summa second type of book that fasci Maureen Corrigan's excite rized and analyzed stories for her nates Corrigan. Her Irish Catho ment for the written word is mother; a literary life was in the lic blue-collar roots propelled contagious. Some of the many making. her in this direction, and she titles that entertained, influ Corrigan describes her love read William Cobbett, Thomas enced, and enlightened her are affair with books by considering Carlyle, John Ruskin, and other now on my own reading list. three types of literature that have Victorian essayists for her disser It is very tempting to get hold of influenced her life. The first tation in graduate school.

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