My dear fellow alumni, some of us are needed by some of the current students of SSU. I am asking all of us to consider the possibilities of helping others achieve what each of us has. Please consider expressing your debt of gratitude to SSU by serving a student or two each semester through the tutoring opportunities available.

Levine’s work is fascinating. As a Jewish New Testament scholar, she has spent her life challenging interpretations of Scripture that carry antisemitic assumptions. Her point is simple and profound: we don’t need to make Jews look bad to make Jesus look good.

For many Christians, the voice of Palestinian Christians have been almost entirely absent from conversations about Israel and Palestine. CHURCH AT THE CROSSROADS is an opportunity to change that!

One of the things South Africa kept pressing on me is that there is no such thing as reading Scripture from nowhere. We all stand somewhere when we read. Our social location, our history, our race, our experience of power or powerlessness, and the people sitting beside us all affect what we hear and what we fail to hear.

I am a privileged bastard. I could travel freely through Ireland and South Africa for a month, then board a plane and return to the comfort of my home. Meanwhile, people I sat with in Langa were carving letter openers and selling refrigerator magnets, hoping to earn enough money to feed their children.

The theology of a nonviolent, self-giving God who refuses retaliation and challenges state-sanctioned oppression is very inconvenient for a country that claims that the same God gave them divine permission to steal, kill, and pillage their way across the continent they now call home.

Spiritual pilgrimages are important. Over the past 4 years, I’ve intentionally undertaken annual summer pilgrimages to European, medieval-era cathedrals - something that has allowed me to visit and pray in some of the largest and oldest European cathedrals from Switzerland to Germany to Luxembourg to France to Belgium to the Netherlands to my most recent trip to the United Kingdom just a couple of weeks ago ...

by. Jason Burkett (US Army veteran and M.A. in Peace & Justice student) I joined the Army twice. The first time (1989-1996), I was a junior in high school, the summer before my senior year. My dad was a truck driver, my mom was a teacher, and we didn’t have much money. I knew my parents couldn’t afford to send both my sister and me to college, and back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, it was all anyone talked about: college, college, college. My dad had served in Vietnam. My