#Luther College

[knittingazoo]

The end of my journey as a PhD student is finally in sight! Before I graduate, my goal is to knit the mascot from every school I’ve attended. Here’s number 4!

Undergrad: Luther College. Mascot: Luther Norse 

Pattern Credit: I was inspired by each of these wonderful patterns, though I made significant changes to each of them.

1) Shape of body and nose: “Erik the Viking,” by Amanda Berry. Available here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/erik-the-viking

2) Visual Inspiration for Overall Look and Tips for Beard, Axe, and Shield: “Viktor the Viking Gnome,” by HeilanHandmakes. Available here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/956035082/viktor-the-viking-gnome-amigurumi

3) Helmet: “Baby Viking Hat,” by Sarah Scott. Available here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-viking-hat-2

[lenaetonien]

The chorus vocals for the Larry Boy sequel were performed by the men’s chorus at my Alma mater, Luther College, which is one of the top choral schools in the U.S.

Veggie tales doesn’t fuck around.

Please listen to this sax solo that came from the goddamn veggietales larryboy soundtrack

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

When people say they want “peaceful” protests they’re really just saying “be quiet”.

This kind of thinking reminds me of the Dr. King quote: “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

[retropopcult]

The cast of Coach, 1989

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Catholic Cultural Criticism

Have you noticed how society just isn't Catholic anymore? Nobody takes the authority of the Church seriously or internalizes any of our morals! You know where it all went wrong? When people abandoned Catholicism. What is the solution? Why you'll never guess--

[mlady-magnolia]

More college au ft. the Boys

[tbbst]

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[vicontheinternet]

Like I said amy schumer is weird as hell. Bernice king had to get her together for using her father’s name to justify her Zionist ways. Also stop using mlk word to do your dirty work if you wanna say something use your own words say it with your whole chest and stop hiding behind someone else’s words.

[mllytll]

Sometimes you have a meme in your heart that no one around you will understand.

[beebeesiims]

ANYWAY!!!!

[jewishandmore]

Our VOICE, Black History Month, and Conscientious Citizenship

Welcome to the inaugural VOICE Faith Engagement update!

 Please feel free to respond, ask questions, make suggestions, and more – consider this an opening to discussion about rallying our multi-faith efforts to advance black liberation because, as Rev. Denise Walden-Glenn reminds us, “There is no liberation without black liberation”.

 This week beginning Black History Month we are again reminded of the disregard with which American culture treats black lives, as we mourn the horrific beating and death of Tyre Nichols, watch the African American Studies AP get banned by the State of Florida, and then scaled back by the College Board, barely notice that African American “Eunice K. Dwumfour, a 30-year-old councilwoman serving her first term in Sayreville, N.J., was fatally shot on Wednesday night”, and see that D. L. Hughley devoted an entire show on Monday to Tyre Nichols while Steven Colbert didn’t mention him at all.

 Meanwhile, on the upside, talk of the latest renaissance in African American culture is out there in offerings like Amplify with Lara Downes.

 Join me in finding some inspiration in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call for “conscientious citizenship”. Michele Moody-Adams leads her profound essay “The Path of Conscientious Citizenship” with these words:

“I contend that, for King, conscientious citizenship is a way of living that seeks to give substance to the idea that justice is indivisible, aspiring to an ideal that (adapting a notion from Josiah Royce) King called the ‘beloved community’—by which he meant a world that would allow reconciliation between the former oppressed and their former oppressors, and embody an all-embracing love for humanity.”

[This essay appears in this vital collection: To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry]

 Knowing that this vision is the ideal and that we must work diligently, and over the course of many generations, to continue to approach it, helps me cope with the vastness of the project. Each of us can make a difference by devoting ourselves to this path. It is not easy, and it will not come quickly, but we can only get there by working on ourselves and collaborating.

 Wishing all of you blessings for a good weekend,

 Jonathan

[chewwytwee]

Moving off campus was 100000000X the right choice for me. It’s so shitty how everyone around me still tells me I’m missing out on something, no one seems to realize that because I am gay, because I am nonbinary, because I am queer I was already precluded from a “normal” campus experience. Having people on campus that wish you harm for existing isn’t “normal” and the burden shouldn’t be on me to adhere to normal it should be on the fucking school to make its campus a normal space for all of its students.

[sucka99]

[xtruss]

Protests, Rallies, Sit-Ins, Marches and Disruptions are all Hallmarks of US History, often preceding the waves of change witnessed in the country. And just as much a part of that history is those same events being met with, condemnation, anger, calls to desist, and oftentimes, the use of law enforcement to make that happen.

Pro-Palestine Encampments have sprung up across US universities over the past few weeks, and even spread worldwide, demanding institutions cut ties, economic or otherwise, with Israel and companies that support the brutal war on Gaza.

"Dissent is essential for democracy. But dissent must never lead to disorder," President Genocidal Joe Biden and Scrotums Licker of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 said regarding the college protests, summing up the enduring national paradox. But disorder and disruptions are the very tools that have historically catalysed political change in American society, even if they were portrayed in a radicalised light such as The Civil Rights Movement.

"Media covers Dr. Martin Luther King Junior with a lot of love and reverence. But we know: Back then, he was presented in the media as this anarchist disruptor," Celeste Faison, Movement for Black Lives co-national director says. "At the end of the day, we have a really bad pattern of defaming protesters when they're in the fight, and then celebrating protesters when they get the win or after they take the risk."

So far, victories have been declared at Brown University, Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota due to the protests. All three colleges have agreed to reconsider ties to Israel in exchange for the activists removing the encampments. At Evergreen State College, administrators agreed to publicly call for a ceasefire in Gaza, and explore divestment from companies that profit from "the occupation of Palestinian territories."

Charles McKinney, a Professor at Rhodes College, says it is an "Ideological Appropriation" When People Who Were Considered Radical or Crazy at the Time of Their Protests are Later Considered "on the Right Side of History." It reinforces the idea that the power of protest isn't necessarily in convincing people in the present, but in impacting the conversations in the culture.

[totallyhussein-blog]

Have you read Anne Frank's Diary? Here's how you can now get involved!

I had a fantastic time at The Anne Frank Trust UK's national conference in Manchester, which took place on Thursday 14th March. They had some incredible speaker's and all of the subjects were highly relevant to what is taking place in modern day Britain.

It's incredible that in 2023, annefrank.org.uk worked with over 119, 311 young people in schools across Britain, with 92.3% of those young people making significant progress in their understanding of prejudice.

After seeing the work that was put into the conference and witnessing some of the positive impacts the Trust is making across Britain, I really hope that friends with an interest in history, will visit the AFT website and get involved!

[mlady-magnolia]

What was the nonsense this time? It was Grace’s fault.

Also big thanks to @siewmai for the last nonsense idea hehe