Earlhamite Books
A Defense of Poetry Against the Mathematicians
This book contains two essays defending poetry against the mathematicians. The first is Nightingale's latest essay explaining how distinction, difference and recognition of variety (the usual tools to dispel vagueness), are themselves vague. Nightingale offers a web app he wrote for teaching logic with the understanding that difference, or the logical negation operation, is vague. Nightingale's dissertation done at Mahidol Univeristy, Thailand (2018) presents a significant finding that empirical investigation into vagueness is more interesting to students than precise scientific concepts. There is a selection of poetry—mostly published with some new poems.
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Beyond the Touchlines: A History of Earlham's Soccer
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Blackball
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Don't Cry, Chiisai, Don't Cry
At Earlham College in 1942, Ruthanna Farlow and her friends felt they had something of a nirvana, a place that others only dreamed of. It was a time of war, but Earlham was a place of Quakerly kindness. Love was for all, not a select few. This sort of spirit came as no shock to Ruthanna. She was from the southern Indiana town of Paoli. Its population was about 3,000if you counted the dogs and cats. The town had been settled by Quakers and dominated by the Penn love ethic. No one had ever specifically said to her, “All people are the same.” She just assumed it to be true because if you loved your neighbor, how could it be otherwise? That same spirit of tolerance would bring a young Japanese American man into her life. Despite it being only months since the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Earlham College had opened its doors to Japanese American students from the West Coast, students who would have otherwise been interned. Friendships with these students would be encouraged. Interracial dating, however, was another matter. Marriage? Illegal in Indiana and most other states.
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Earlham College: A History 1847-1997
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Good Punishment?
More than 2 million persons occupy America's prisons and jails today -- the highest per capita incarceration rate in U.S. history. With just 6 percent of the world's population, the United States now holds 25 percent of its prisoners. At what social cost do we build and fill more prisons?
In Good Punishment? James Samuel Logan critiques the American obsession with imprisonment as punishment, calling it -retributive degradation- of the incarcerated. His analysis draws on both salient empirical data and material from a variety of disciplines -- social history, anthropology, law and penal theory, philosophy of religion -- as he uncovers the devastating social consequences (both direct and collateral) of imprisonment on such a large, unprecedented scale.
A distinctive contribution of this book lies in its development of a Christian social ethics of -good punishment- embodied as a politics of -healing memories- and -ontological intimacy.- Logan earnestly explores how Christians can best engage with the real-life issues and concerns surrounding the American practice of imprisonment.
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I Was a Stranger
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Prophetic Healing
Can mystics be political activists? Can our encounter with God inspire us to be agents of social transformation? Through the lens of Howard Thurman's life and mystical theology, Bruce Epperly explores what it means to join prophetic ministry with personal and social healing. Despite the racism he experienced throughout his life, Thurman joined his spiritual experiences with a commitment to racial and social healing. He was a prophet, challenging racism and social injustice. He was also a healer who experienced God's presence in oppressor as well as oppressed. Thurman's holistic spirituality provides a pathway for social healing in a time characterized by polarization, incivility, and hatred. Thurman reminds us that we can both picket and pray, and protest injustice while working toward reconciliation.
The spiritual exercises at the end of each chapter draw on Howard Thurman's work to challenge us--if we practice these exercises seriously and with commitment--to develop a new view of our opponents. They help us toward loving our enemies, and becoming the "friendly world of friendly persons" that Thurman described.
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SONAM THE STAR
Sonam is the happiest little monk at his monastery, and is always sharing his bright smile with the world no matter the occasion. But one day, his teacher finds him looking sadly at the sky. When he asks him why, Sonam reveals that he is much more than meets the eye.
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