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1. Classes

1.1 Liberation Theologies

• Native American Theology: Theology of Liberation or Concession to Colonization? 05.06 -- An interesting but unrevised paper on Tink Tinker and Native American Theology. Eric deserves some credit for writing a paper on the same topic last year, which I used as a starting point for my paper.

1.2 History of Christianity in Africa

• Falling Short of an Ideal: The Dutch Reformed Church's Role in the Development of Apartheid 04.06
• The Church Struggle in South Africa -- John W. de Gruchy 04.06 -- A review of the book of the same title. The book provides a theological and historical look at the relationship between church and state in South Africa before and during apartheid.

1.3 Colonial and Revolutionary America

• Deficient Husbands: Manhood, Sexual Incapacity, and Male Marital Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England 02.06 -- A review/critique of a 1999 journal article of the same title.
• 17th & 18th Century Understandings of Black Freedom 03.06 -- Inspired by The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by himself and How Did American Slavery Begin? edited by Edward Countryman.
• A Comparative Analysis of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Cuba and New York, 1751-1775 03.06 -- Uses the recently developed Cambridge University Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.

1.4 History of Mennonites in America

• Mennonites Re-Examine the Church's Role in Advocacy: A Study of MCC Involvement in the Californian Labor Disputes of the 1970s 11.05 -- Uses mostly sources from the Mennonite Church Archives and interviews with Ted Koontz.

1.5 Jesus and the Gospels

• Matthew 7.21-23: The Call for a Lived Expression of Faith 11.05

1.6 Hebrew Scripture: Prophets

• Heschel's The Prophets: A Revealing Study of the Old Testament Prophets 02.05
• Brueggemann's The Prophetic Imagination 03.05
• Ezekiel: The Wrath of God and the Formula of Recognition 03.05 -- Uses Millard Lind's commentary on Ezekiel, among others.

1.7 Human Stories

• New Harmony Two 11.04 -- A proposal for a modern intentional community based on Robert Owen's 1825 New Harmony community.

2. Not-So-Random Musings

• General Education Program in need of transformation 02.06 -- Printed in the Goshen College Record
• Conversation at Puidoux: Mennonites Rethink Church and State 06.03