Mercy is a place where each student can learn and grow in a safe and supportive environment. The faculty and staff foster and maintain an atmosphere where mutual respect is an expectation on the part of both students and adults. Mercy shares experiences and opportunities for social and cultural...
The training in mutual aid and interdependence, as well as in self-government and business habits, which the leaders of the wage-earners have received in both trade-unionism and the cooperative movements, while it might be of incalculable benefit in the formation of the needed Christian ...
Though the early training of the child devolved upon the mother, her responsibility brought with it no dignity. But little provision was made for the education of girls; their only vocation was to marry, bear children, and render service to the head of the family. In view of these facts...
The first year of any OTP, or Cross-Cultural Training Program (CTP), is known among Divine Word Missionaries as the “silent year.” Silent because one likely does not know the local language before arrival. Silent because even after beginning with the cultural immersion and language courses, ...
It’s the culture, stupid Carney’s book is a superbly writtentour de forcecontending that multiple cumulative socio-cultural factors are responsible for the current family-unfriendly environment. Culture is like the atmosphere: it’s usually invisible but necessary—and when contaminants get into it...
The first two signatories to the faculty letter in support of the student actions are Janet and Gabi Kirk, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis. Gabi is a friend of mine from JVP Bay Area as well as multiple years of meeting up doing co-resistance ...
However, the mutual identity they share as Catholics keeps them together. This complex relationship is also projected onto their food culture. In the Boston Chinese Catholic Church, food is divided into sacred food and secular food. The sacred diet is associated with religious rituals, primarily ...
Gebara looks at Jesus as the one who called people away from both the madness of escapism and domination to their true selves into a community of mutual service. In Gebara's Christology, Jesus stands as the antimessiah, calling upon the powerful to repent and enter into a new Earth ...