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The American Revoluationary War: The British Perspective
(2017-10-12) Wetzel, C. Robert
Presentation given by Professor C. Robert Wetzel at the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) conference on October 12, 2017.
Building Bridges with No Trolls: The Practical Ethics of Open Access Institutional Repositories and Digital Archives
(Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2018) Kenderes, Lindsay; Morrissey, Jude
Librarians have long been seen as the gatekeepers of information. The collection, organization, and dissemination of information resources is a vocation that goes back to the very beginnings of civilization – but access to information has always been limited, to some degree. Policies of individual libraries serving particular communities, sometimes with the best of intentions, restricted information access - certain materials were too precious to let out of sight, or particular classes were denied access to holdings. As well, logistical problems – language differences, item fragility and rarity, international relations – made information sharing difficult or impossible between communities. Over time, these obstacles have been lessened, and access to information is almost ubiquitous and instantaneous – particularly with the use of mobile devices, online translation services, and the electronic presence of news agencies and academic journals. Increasingly, limitations to information access are entirely artificial – such as digitized news or journal articles hidden behind expensive paywalls, creating an unnecessary obstacle to information access for those who cannot afford to pay. In this chapter, we look at how the ethics of librarianship steer us towards the creation and maintenance of open access institutional repositories and archives as ways of building bridges for information access, intellectual freedom, and scholarly communication inside and between communities.
Dr. Hezekiah B. Hankal: May 10, 1826 – June 20, 1903: His Life, His Family, His Legacy
(2023-09-11) Shaffer, Donald
A biography of Dr. Hezekiah Hankal, a Black leader and physician in the community of Johnson City, Tennessee in the 1800s, particularly among the African-American churches and schools of Johnson City.
Encoding Finding Aids on a Budget: Using Atom and HTML to Put Finding Aids Online
(SOLO: Newsletter of the Solo Arrangers Section, Society of American Archivists, 2024) Banks, Katherine (Siebenaler)
A brief article describing Banks' work to put Milligan University's archives' finding aids on Milligan DigitalRepository (MDR)
Expanding the Reach of the Archives through Instruction
(SOLO: Newsletter of the Lone Arrangers Section, Society of American Archivists, 2023) Banks, Katherine (Siebenaler)
A short article detailing Banks' primary source instruction program at Milligan
Fire in the Bread, Life in the Spirit: The Pneumatology of Ephrem the Syrian
(2020-05) Kiger, David; Mellon Saint-Laurent, Jeanne-Nicole
The fourth century debates about the status and personhood of the Son later expanded to reflections on the status and person of the Holy Spirit. In this dissertation I examine the pneumatology of Ephrem the Syrian, who is often over-looked in discussions about fourth century pneumatology. I argue that Ephrem displays a high pneumatology that fits within the broad contours of the pro-Nicene movement. I begin with a discussion of Ephrem’s Syriac heritage and focus on the themes and language surrounding the Holy Spirit in pre-Nicene Syriac texts. Pre-Nicene Syriac authors speak about the Spirit’s role in liturgical practices, often using feminine or maternal language to describe the Spirit’s work. I proceed then to a discussion of the grounding principle of Ephrem’s theology, the concept of true and borrowed names. Ephrem’s focus on divine names shows a clear concern for and response to the theology of Eunomius and Aetius. The logic that Ephrem uses to combat Eunomius’s understanding of divine names bears a marked similarity to Basil’s logic in Contra Eunomium. Next, I assert that Ephrem affirms the unity of divine operations in the Trinity because of his assertion that the Holy Spirit participates in the act of creation. Ephrem does not believe that the Holy Spirit is the “wind/spirit” that hovers of the primordial waters in Gen. 1:2b, because creation does not proceed from those waters. In addition, he does affirm the Spirit’s creative action in the waters of baptism. Because Jesus left the Spirit to his followers after his ascension, Ephrem believes that the locus of the Holy Spirit’s activity is the life of the church. In the sacraments the Holy Spirit forgives sin and creates new believers, thus performing the same actions as the Father and Son. Lastly, in his most vivid image of the Trinity, Ephrem affirms that God is the undiminished giver, who is present to all without suffering loss in God’s self. God’s presence is evident in the life of Christians by the presence of the Holy Spirit who is present everywhere without diminishing. Ephrem’s pneumatology affirms several key pro-Nicene commitments without recourse to the same exegetical traditions. Such an affirmation highlights that the transmission of orthodox theological ideas, based upon the common sources of the Bible and sacraments, integrated into the contexts beyond the traditional Latin and Greek divide.
MCStor and OLH Celebrate Open Access Week
(2015-10-12) Daught, Gary; Baker, David; Kenderes, Lindsay
MCStor Open Access Week poster. This workshop presented two platforms: MCStor, Milligan College's digital repository for scholarly work created by faculty, staff and students and Open Library of Humanities, an international open access humanities "megajournal." Workshops were presented on Milligan's campus October 19-21, 2015.
MCStor: Institutional Repository for Milligan College
(2016-05-27) Daught, Gary; Baker, David; Kenderes, Lindsay
This presentation describes the creation of MCStor, Milligan College's digital repository. MCStor is built on DSpace, a full-featured open source and web-based repository platform. Presented at the Appalachian College Association's Library Professional Development Day Program on May 27, 2016, at the Tamarack Center, Beckley, WV.
More than an Afterimage: Music as Holocaust Spatial Representation and Legacy
(2023-03-30) Brown, Kellie
Music occupies a unique and multi-faceted role in spatial representation of the Holocaust, both in terms of documenting its horrors and in cultivating legacy. This uniqueness derives from music’s dual temporal and physical essence as it is represented by written scores that serve as a blueprint, as sonic events that fill both time and space, and as musical instruments that operate as conduits for both. String instruments, in particular, have occupied a vital place in Jewish culture and, consequently, during the Holocaust. In the most tragic sense, some of these instruments even became actual containers of genocidal evidence as with violins played outside concentration camp crematoria that filled with the human ash that fell. This article will demonstrate that, when played, these instruments transform into living artifacts and musical witnesses, with voices that can speak for those who have been silenced, and that the resulting music that resonates from the printed page fills a sonic space that serves as a powerful medium for memory and representation. The phrase “bearing witness” often refers to representing the stories of people, places, and experiences through words, either written or spoken. But material culture also has a role to play in representation. While objects, art, and architecture certainly support language-based witness, they also provide their own unique lens and conduit for testimony. This seems especially true for music, which has the ability to exist as and cross between both words and objects. Nevertheless, music as material witness remains a complex and often understudied aspect of historical testimony. As a result, this paper will explore through an interdisciplinary approach the divergent nature of music as an aural form, as a creative art, and as a cultural artifact and will offer examples of how music can enhance, elucidate, and complicate Holocaust representation.
Motivating Gifted Adolescents through the Power of PIE: Preparedness, Innovation, & Effort
(2022-09-29) Phelps, Vicki
Join Dr. Vicki Phelps as part of our Faculty Lecture Series as she presents, “Motivating Gifted Adolescents through the Power of PIE: Preparedness, Innovation, & Effort“
Promoting Archives for Milligan's 150th Anniversary
(2017-05-19) Kenderes, Lindsay
This presentation describes how the Holloway Archives at Milligan College promoted its archival collections during Milligan’s Sesquicentennial Anniversary in 2016. Several projects that the Archives were involved with, include 1) Scholarship, Community, Faith: Milligan Celebrates 150 Years commemorative book, 2) Milligan Campus Scenes: Then and Now interactive photo exhibit, 3) Forward with Faith: The Milligan College Story theater production, 4) History Through the Eyes of Milligan faculty lecture series, 5) and Archive exhibits, physical and digital. Presented at the Appalachian College Association's Library Professional Development Day Program on May 19, 2017, in Knoxville, TN.
Test Document
(2019-05-30) Daught, Gary
This is a presentation about Milligan College's digital repository, MCStor, built on DSpace.
Two articles on New Testament textual criticism
(The Bible Translator, 2006-2019) Miller, Jeffrey
Two articles, both published in the journal The Bible Translator, that argue against the validity of preferring shorter readings (lectio brevior potior) as a principle of New Testament textual criticism.
Two articles on translation issues key to Paul’s teaching about women
(Stone-Campbell Journal and Christian Standard, 2009) Miller, Jeffrey
Paul’s words about women are a hotbed of debate. Consensus in interpretation awaits consensus in translation. Some translation issues have attracted abundant attention; interpreters have taken sides and stand at somewhat of a stalemate. These two articles summarize a few of these translation issues.
What to Do while We're Waiting for Perfect Understanding: Why We Need a Theology of Women in Ministry
(2010-07-08) Hull, Robert F. Jr.
Paper read at the 2010 North American Christian Convention, Indianapolis, IN. *Submitted by Jeff Miller after Hull's death*
When Eating Fit Makes You Fat
(2021-09-30) Han, Mei
Mei Han got her bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Wuhan Textile University. She then joined Ping An Insurance as a training administrator, during her work at Ping An, she realized her passion for teaching, and decided to pursue a graduate degree later. Mei Han came to United States in 2012, she got her MBA degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. During her graduate study at WPI, she met her husband who shared the Gospel with her. Mei Han got baptized in 2013, she started to serve many Chinese churches since then. Now she is helping a nonprofit organization translating English Theological books into Chinese. Mei Han joined Milligan in 2020, in the same year she got her doctoral degree in marketing. Her research interests include branding, consumer behavior, and application of technology in marketing.
Widby → Woodbey
(2024) Shaffer, Donald
George Washington Woodbey was a Baptist minister and noted African American lecturer. He traveled widely on the lecture circuit in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, speaking on such subjects as “Why I Believe What I Believe,” “The Negro in Ancient History,” “The Young Negro of the Past and Present,” and “The Negro Schools,” as well as on social, economic, and racial issues in the United States. He was born into slavery in northeastern Tennessee in the mid-1850s and lived most of his childhood there before his parents moved their family to Kansas in 1870.1 This study carefully examines how early records of the Woodbey family in Upper East Tennessee shed light on the lives of its members while they still lived there, and how their experiences there may have contributed to the formation of George Woodbey’s thinking and passionately held convictions. It begins by attempting to discern the presence of George and his sister Mary and their parents, Charles and Rachel Woodbey, in censuses and other records from slave times, in spite of the fact that those records never give the names of any individual slaves. It then surveys the overall environment in which the members of this family lived and considers some of their recorded experiences in slavery, as well as attempting to imagine what some of the other aspects of their lives may have been like within that context. After attempting to reconstruct how this family experienced the transition from slavery to freedom and the circumstances under which the family came to move from Johnson County to Carter County, still in Upper East Tennessee, it concludes with a brief glimpse of their lives in Carter and Washington Counties. A fuller survey of their lives during the four years or so that they lived in Carter County, before they moved to Kansas, will appear in a separate study, “Taylor - Woodbey,” because in that period their lives were closely intertwined with those of a White family, the family of Dr. C. C. Taylor. (Studies by others examine the Rev. George W. Woodbey’s adult years, his labors and endeavors, his commitments and convictions, his passions and the causes he championed.)

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