A Goshen College book club?

For many faculty members, the texture of everyday work life is woven with teaching, conversation, study and research, thinking and writing. As they encourage their students to explore and apply knowledge across disciplines, professors themselves model vital processes in learning, discovery, internalizing and sharing. They are also sharing their knowledge, exploring interests and telling stories for other audiences.
They contribute to journals and magazines and conferences in their field; take speaking engagements; write for church and organizational publications; and author books.
In fact, if Goshen College started a book club, we wouldn’t soon run out of material.
Topics of books published in the past several years range from women conscientious objectors in World War II (former history department professor Rachel Waltner Goossen’s Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947) to Darwinian theory (research professor emeritus of zoology Merle Jacobs, Mr. Darwin Misread Miss Peacock’s Mind: A New Look at Mate Selection in Light of Lessons from Nature). Then there are numerous Pinchpenny Press books, contributions of chapters to texts and collections on a wide range of subjects and countless more examples.
In this issue, we are pleased to share faculty writing – a wonderfully diverse selection of excerpts from books published in the past several years by GC faculty members.
Then we turn to a conversation with persons writing for and seeing themselves represented in a very different medium… television.
In the campus news section, travel to Kenya and Russia with students and graduates.
You'll also find in this issue a fall sports schedule, so you can cheer the Maple Leafs in person or in spirit.
We also invite you to share your writing with the Bulletin! What would you be willing to relate about your professional or personal interests, passions or experiences that we could include in the Bulletin as part of our “Alumni Narrative” column? From hobbies and travel to observations about family, faith, society or service to professional and personal challenges, please contact me with ideas – call (219) 535-7571 or (800) 348-7422 (ext. 7571), e-mail racheljl@goshen.edu or write to: Goshen College Bulletin, Goshen College, 1700 South Main St., Goshen IN 46526.

Return to September Bulletin Contents
In Praise of Faculty
Salsa: A Taste of Hispanic Culture
Coffee Break
Night's Black Weight
Berman's Lament
Anansi Borrows Money
Sexuality: God's Gift
Roll It: GC Alums strike success in soap box racing and celluloid

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