RELST/MART 204: PEACE AND THE WORLD RELIGIONS–SPRING, 1995 REQUIRED TEXTS: Chapple, Non-Violence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions; Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace; Carmody, Peace and Justice in the Scriptures of the World Religions. BOOKS ON RESERVE: James…
HOW DID WE LOSE OUR RACIAL COLOR BLINDNESS? Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho (ngier∂uidaho.edu) Click here for full scholarly article "What Part of Equality Don’t You Understand?" "Three Principles of Civil Disobedience: Thoreau, Gandhi, and King"…
“Jesus, a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew, called us to preach good news to the poor, the broken, the bruised, and all those who are made to feel unaccepted.” —Rev. William Barber, Founder, The Moral Monday In October of 1983, I was…
If you’re openly inciting violence, that’s a problem. But other than that, we can’t start doing this filtering of people’s words and what they say. —Jordan Frost, WSU student body president It is virtually impossible to articulate a standard for…
“It is too early to clothe me in sainthood. I myself do not feel to be a saint in any shape or form.” –M. K. Gandhi “Martin Luther King helps us to see that to be a saint is…
As a politically active black man in 1950s and 1960s, Bayard Rustin had, in addition to his race, three strikes against him: he was a pacifist; he was a Communist; and he was openly homosexual. In 1936 Rustin became a…
The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly . . . But the deeper idolatry, of fashioning God in the image of the Egyptian, Persian, and Roman imperial rulers, was retained. The Church gave unto God the…
CURRICULUM VITAE Nicholas F. Gier, 509 Taylor Ave., Moscow, ID 83843 Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Idaho Senior Fellow, Martin Institute of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, 1990-2000 Coordinator of Religious Studies, 1980-2003 President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, 1982- Tel: 208-301-1278; ngier∂uidaho.edu;ngier006∂gmail.com EDUCATION…
GOD, FREEDOM, AND EVIL Major Revisions to Chapter 4 of God, Reason, and the Evangelicals (University Press of America, 1987). Copyright held by N. F. Gier Published as "Three Types of Divine Power," Process Studies 20:4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 221-232.…
HEBREW AND BUDDHIST SELVES: A CONSTRUCTIVE POSTMODERN STUDY Note: The diacritical marks may not show. Please e-mail ngier∂uidaho.edu for a Word file. Published in Asian Philosophy 17:1 (March, 2007) Linked with permission from Brian Carr, Editor, Asian Philosophy "Body…
