Volume 13, Issue 1 (2020)
A sincere and warm welcome to this student journal. If you have not engaged Obsculta in the past, we are glad to know that you are doing so and pray that you find the works herein invigorating, thought provoking, and enriching. For those readers who have encountered previous Obsculta editions, welcome again. With Christ’s help, this little text may serve as an introduction to voices of our community with work which we commit ourselves to daily. This volume of Obsculta, like every volume, cannot circumscribe the totality of our community, yet it aims to lift up our voices with charity and fruitful dialogue.This year, our contributors bring forward many creative expressions of language. Our text captures vivid imagery, mindful reflections, and thoughtful theological discourse. We are grateful to our contributors for all that they submitted to us. We found it truly enriching and enjoyable to read your works. Our hope for you, dear reader, is that after reflection and listening with an attentive heart, we may all set out for loftier summits of teaching and virtue, and under God’s protection we may reach them.
Sincerely,
The Obsculta editorial team
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Contributor Bios
Obsculta Editors
Brother John
August Turak
Ministering to Survivors of Sexual Trauma
Leah Wakefield
Dreamers X Doers
Courtney Horstman
Cistercian Order in Vietnam - Advantages and Challenges
John Toan V. Phan
Poems by Jeffrey Wilkinson
Jeffrey Wilkinson
Mitre and Sword: Fighting Norman Bishops and Clergy
Timothy R. Martin
Lectio of Surprises
Kathleen A. Cahalan
Come and See
Denise Lyon
The Second Vatican Council and the Culture of Dialogue: The Role of Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary
Janice Kristanti
The Shoemaker
Meghan E. Stretar
Editorial Team
- Student Government Representative
- Jason Horstman
- Editor
- Drenda Butler
- Editor
- Courtney Horstman
- Editor
- Patrick Martin
- Editor
- Tim Martin
- Editor
- Meghan Stretar
- Faculty Advisor
- Shawn Colberg
- Staff Advisor
- Donelle Poling
- Staff Librarian
- David Wuolu
A special thank you to our faculty and staff advisors: