Thursday, November 2, 2023

Rue Plant (LT - National flower of Lithuania): Bucknell University ~ Dear Provost Margot Vigeant, and President John Bravman, All - & Collaborations with MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch? ... * * Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - Lego Robotics in Maker Spaces at Bucknell University & collaborations with MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch as well?* * * Poem, Poetry, 2 Haikuish ~ The Canadian geese, Feeling the waters, Float as the Susquehanna flows by ... * * * Scotland World Univ & Sch in Scottish Gaelic, - and exploring collaborations with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye? * * * Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers?) ? ... searched on "Scott MacLeod, nontheist Friends, Nontheist Quakers" .... especially - * * * Rosemary Ruether, "Sexism and God-talk" - I wrote my Reed College senior thesis in 1985 about this book - * * *


Bucknell University ~ Dear Provost Margot Vigeant, and President John Bravman, All - & Collaborations with MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch? ...


Dear Provost Margot Vigeant, and President John Bravman, All,  

Greetings from the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania area! As President (and presently CEO), Founder, & Presiding Clerk of, and Professor at, MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, I'm writing to explore potential collaboration with Bucknell University. Would Bucknell be interested in MIT OCW OpenCourseWare for free, and developing a #PhysicalDigital WUaS Medical School, and with legal technologies, a Physical-Digital WUaS Law School too? In communication with Bucknell already about a Realistic Virtual Earth For History, and with AI Data resources (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/neroli-viviparum-lily-li-national.html), would Bucknell further be interested in a #Realistic Virtual Earth For Everything, ForHistory, ForSTEM (especially e.g. for chemistry and electrical engineering, your areas of expertise), For TeleRobotic Surgery in a Bucknell Medical School, and especially for AgingReversal genetic drug therapies emerging potentially (see below)? Think Google Street View with Time Slider, Google Cell View, Google Molecule View, Google Maps, Google Earth, TensorFlowAI, TensorStore, Translate and with Pegman becoming Avatar Bot Electronic Health Records for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, as WUaS plans to code for all 7.9 billion people on the the planet, each a Wikidata PIN # from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and to potentially distribute a single main cryptocurrency like Stanford Mine Pi to most people on the planet and to end poverty.


Looking forward to communicating further about this - and might we please do so in a conference call?

All the best, 
Scott




How could a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal help? Think #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider #GoogleCellView #GoogleMoleculeView #GMaps #GEarth #TensorFlowAI #TensorStore WITH #TextInTheSideBar where Pegman becomes #AvatarBotElectronicHealthRecords for all 7.9 billion people? 









Retweeting

Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD

I am happy to announce that the prominent journal, "Nature Portfolio Aging is currently accepting submissions for its "Generative AI for Aging Research and Drug Discovery" Collection. The collection is co-managed by the four Guest Editors: Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, Insilico Medicine, Collin Ewald, PhD, ETH Zurich, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, MD, PhD, University of Copenhagen, and Pavlo Mozharovskyi, PhD, Institute Polytechnique de Paris.

This Collection encourages multidisciplinary teams to share their findings in the realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence, specifically as it pertains to aging research and drug discovery. You can find comprehensive details about this Collection at the following link: nature.com/collections/ab….

Submissions to this Collection can encompass original primary research articles, among other content types that the journal regularly publishes. Should your submission be accepted for publication, please be aware that an article processing charge (APC) will apply.

Submission Deadline is 23 April 2024.

Please consider submitting your research papers or reviews for this collection, and please let your colleagues know about this special issue.

Please forward this to your friends in academic institutions, pharma, or portfolio companies specializing in generative AI and healthcare.

We ran a similar special issue in 2017-2018 in ACS Molecular Pharmaceutics, pubs.acs.org/toc/mpohbp/15/…
, Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery, Biomarker Development, and Generation of Novel Chemistry, and it contained some of the most impactful papers in generative AI for chemistry.

Aging Research and Generative AI is expected to become the main platform for drug discovery of blockbuster therapeutics. Since Morten and the University of Copenhagen are organizing the famous ARDD conference, the conference will waive the registration fee for one senior author of every accepted paper and allow for the poster to be exhibited at the ARDD.





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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2023, forthcoming)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
 World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 






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Lego Robotics in Maker Spaces at Bucknell University & collaborations with MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch as well?


Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Dear Matt Lamparter, Provost Margot Vigeant, President John Bravman, all, 

Greetings! I just met and spoke with Liz Clark at Bucknell Engineering (and see below) who suggested I go to your Maker Space in room 111, which I did, but learned that you would next be in tomorrow, regarding there any Lego Robotics' kits, like Lego Spike Prime, in Maker Spaces or otherwise on campus these days? Is the Scratch Programming language a computer language Bucknell students are having fun with, even non CS students, and e.g. here with CC-4 licensed "CS First withGoogle at World Univ & Sch" - https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home? 

I'll seek to stop in tomorrow and see if we might talk in passing. 

As the founder, and president of CC-4 licensed https://ocw.mit.edu/ MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, it would be interesting too to explore, brainstorming-wise, possible emerging WUaS PhD programs for Bucknell students in the future. Thanks. 

All the best, Scott 

  

Dear Terri Norton, and Liz Clark (at Bucknell Engineering - 

Greetings! Very nice to meet you and talk with you, Liz, just now. And thanks for the information about possible Lego Robotics in Maker Spaces at Bucknell.

I went to Rm 111 to ask for Matt Lampharter, but he'll be in tomorrow, so I may stop in tomorrow again to see if he might be in room 111. Are there any Lego Robotics' kits, like Lego Spike Prime, in Maker Spaces or otherwise on campus these days? Is the Scratch Programming language a computer language Bucknell students are having fun with, even non CS students, and e.g. here with CC-4 licensed "CS First withGoogle at World Univ & Sch" - https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home?

I'd like to share below some related emails which some Bucknell librarians and I just exchanged in these regards. While the Bucknell Library is not interested in getting Lego Robotics' kits for the library at this time, they suggested getting in touch with Bucknell Maker Spaces in Engineering and related areas ... which is why I came to your offices. 

Who further might you suggest I speak with please? How best to grow making Lego Robotics and programming with Scratch for fun and play, and for STEM and also humanities students? (You'll find here the email I sent in reaching out to  Provost Margot Vigeant, and President John Bravman, All - & re Collaborations with MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch? ...https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/rue-plant-lt-national-flower-of.html and see too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/10/cyclamen-lb-national-flower-of-lebanon.html). Thank you!

All the best, Scott
 


1st email thread 

Bucknell Robotics? - Michael McLain - & Questions about a Realistic Virtual Earth for History, & also talking with Isabella O'Neill ... & Lego Robotics' kits?

A

Dear Michael, 

Greetings, and nice to talk with you again just now.

Thanks for your help the other day on Tu Oct 31, 2023 when I asked about adding for example April 14, 1971 Grateful Dead Concert Bucknell Library resources, brainstorming-wise, to a Realistic Virtual Earth for History (think Google Street View with time slider). I had a helpful conversation with University Archivist Isabella O'Neill (and here is some about our communication - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/neroli-viviparum-lily-li-national.html). I also think I just saw you walk by in the stacks 2 evenings ago. 

As I mentioned, I noticed that you have a focus on Bucknell Board Games https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/michael too. And I wonder too, again - with all the pieces in Board Games  especially and regarding lending - whether the Bucknell Library has any Lego Robotics' kits for lending, out of curiosity, such as Lego Spike Prime. Thanks for pointing out the Lego blocks in the relaxation center, and letting me know about Bucknell Libraries approaches to pieces. (Do you make Chess Board games available for "Chess & Chill" by any chance - https://campus.bucknell.edu/campus_guest/calendar/detail?feed=events___all_upcoming_events&startdate=2023-11-03T00%3A00%3A00&id=d9db72fb-5c22-5e8f-bd12-a7cb8f594c89 )?


Further, and regarding Lego Robotics' kits, such as Lego Spike Prime, and potentially also Bucknell students being able to learn computer programming by playing - eg with the free Scratch programming language (and see the free CC-4 licensed "CS First with Google at World Univ & Sch" programming course - https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home - learning the Scratch programming language) and which interoperate with Lego Robotics, how might Bucknell Libraries make one or 2 Lego Spike Prime Robotics' kits available to Bucknell students for borrowing - and not only to play with robotics, relaxation corner-wise, but also to play programming wise, and for relaxation too?"


CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, - toward free online Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school, AA and Master's degrees from home - of which I'm the founder, and president, has a focus on WUaS Home Robotics in engineering majors and related, - and WUaS is also an authorized reseller of 3 Lego Robotics' kits - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - but having not sold any to date (and as World Univ & Sch accredits with MSCHE with offices in the greater Philadelphia area, and licenses with the state of PA's department of education, for which WUaS has the green lights). I noticed also while searching "Board Games" and "Lego Robotics" here - https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/ - that books come up for both, but wonder whether the Bucknell Library might be interested in some Lego Spike Prime Lego Robotics kits? Might Bucknell Library be interested in lending these to Bucknell students? How to engage Bucknell students further with these potentially? Add a Lego Robotics' kits play time to parallel the Chess & Chill get togethers for Bucknell students possibly? 

(With WUaS as an authorized reseller of Lego Robotics' kits, I've also been reaching out to the Union county and Lycoming county library systems in these regards - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/10/asian-spruce-kz-national-flower-of.html (but which might take some time for related developments) - and wonder if we might talk about Bucknell University Bertrand Library Lego Robotics' kits at some point. 

Looking forward to staying in touch about some of this with time. 


Best wishes, Scott 


PS
found these online - 

Michael McLain 
https://www.bucknell.edu/fac-staff/michael-mclain

Bucknell University Library Services Desk Assistant
mgm020@bucknell.edu




2nd email thread that Michael McLain started - 


Robotics  

1
Hello Scott,

Thank you for your email.  We do not provide any chess sets for campus events.  I do know the chess club and other groups on campus already have chess sets available.  As to your questions about the Lego sets, I do not have any authority to purchase materials for the library.  All the items purchased for the Relaxation Zone and the Board Game Collection have to go through an approval process.  If you like to talk to someone about the Lego kits, you can contact my supervisor Ben Hoover.  His email is bahoover@bucknell.edu.  Thank you.

Michael

--
Michael McLain
Library Services Desk Assistant
Bertrand 107E
Library & IT
Bucknell University
570-577-1436



2
Greetings, Mr. McLain, and Mr Hoover, 

Thanks so much for your email, Michael, just now - and Ben's email. And greetings, Ben and Michael: what follows is all a little out of the box, but please read on - 

Ben, might it be possible to meet with you to talk about Bucknell Library getting some Lego Robotics' Spike Prime kits - for students seeking to play with making robots, relaxation-corner-wise, - but also for students seeking to have fun learning programming through kinds of play with the Scratch programming language, and which is interoperable with Lego Robotics' kits. (The new Scratch programming language is also out of the lifelong kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab ... and designed for playing learning programming re this thinking too). I hope to be in the Bucknell library this afternoon, or tomorrow sometime, if you are available. 

(Furthermore, how might the Chess people at Bucknell, some of whom I met at a Friday afternoon chess playing get together help possibly create a playing with Lego Robotics' building robots' group, and a fun Scratch computer programming get together possibly - re dovetailing all of this?)

(And further, brainstorming-wise MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch / WUaS Educational Services' stores are official resellers of 3 Lego Robotics' kits, two of which have been retired - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - but WUaS hasn't yet sold any Lego Robotics' kits; might it be possible, if Bucknell library were interested in getting Lego Spike Prime Robotics' kits to get them FROM WUaS Corp; AND possibly in collaboration with about 7 counties' public libraries (re Lycoming and Union counties for example) in the area to get Lego Spike Prime Robotics' kits - and also regarding generating initial purchase orders through the WUaS Corporation ... and thus getting MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch / WUaS off the ground financially even please? And further, how might Bucknell students playing with Lego Robotics with the Scratch Programming language find their ways, after graduation, into matriculating at MIT OCW-centric  wiki World Univ & Sch for online free WUaS degrees - PhDs for example - from home in #WUaSHomeRobotics in #WUaSStemMajos?)

How might we best possibly talk about some of this please, if we do meet? I may seek to ask at the Bucknell library this afternoon, if you're available to talk, if I find my way there.

All the best, thank you, appreciatively, Scott 





Scott


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Hello Mr. MacLeod,

The library is not interested in purchasing Lego sets at this time.  You might want to contact the Maker Spaces on campus as this seems to align with their function.  A link to the Maker Spaces is below.


Best regards,
Ben Hoover
--

Benjamin Hoover '08, M'12

Student Experience and Outreach Specialist 
Bertrand Library
Bucknell University

e bahoover@bucknell.edu
p 570-577-2045
Pronouns he, him, his



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Hello Mr. Hoover, and Mr. McLean,

Thanks for the information. Am on campus now and seeking first to find the engineering building's Maker Space. #WUaSHomeRobotics for playing with building robots and learning programming Scratch is a related exploration.  Maybe the Bucknell Maker Spaces will already have Lego Robotics jits available for Home Robotics' creativity (i.e. and socially in group video brainstorming wise).  

 Thanks so much,
Scott 









PPS
Found too - 
Stu Thompson 



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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2023, forthcoming)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
 World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 




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Dear Anthony Morgan (Bucknell University Department of Public Safety), and Provost Margot Vigeant,


Thank you for your response. I have reached out to Interim Provost Margot Vigeant, and President John Bravman, regarding possible Bucknell collaborations with startup CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School / WUaS, eg for free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric degrees, such as Ph.D.s, as WUaS accredits with Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and licenses with the state of Pennsylvania's department of education, and in a wide variety of ways, - and thanks to your email, will continue to seek now to explore these opportunities with Interim Provost Margot Vigeant. I also received an email reply that Provost Margot Vigeant is out of town at a conference. 

Here is the email I and WUaS initially reached to Provost Margot Vigeant, and President John Bravman, All - & re Collaborations with MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch? with  ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/11/rue-plant-lt-national-flower-of.html - and have added this email and today's "Lego Robotics in Maker Spaces at Bucknell University & collaborations with MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch as well?" to this. 

Thank you, and best wishes, 
President and professor Scott GK MacLeod 

Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
 World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html





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Poem, Poetry, 2 Haiku-ish ~ 


The Canadian geese, Feeling the waters, Float as the Susquehanna flows by 


The Canadian geese,
Feeling the waters,
Float as the Susquehanna 
flows by

Newly in that V formation 
But in a river, not flying in air,
They rest Now: 
Neither north nor south they fly ~ 

#Haikuish
#Poetry 






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Scotland World Univ & Sch in Scottish Gaelic, - and exploring collaborations with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye?


Dear friends at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, 

Greetings from Pennsylvania. Will this "Iain Noble Memorial Lecture by John Norman MacLeod 16 November" be live streamed please?


Tha sinn a' cur fàilte chridheil oirbh gu Òraid Chuimhneachaidh Shir Iain Nobail 2023, a thèid a thoirt seachad am-bliadhna le Iain Tormod MacLeòid aig 7:30f, 16 Samhain, ann an TDC, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig.

RSVP: runaire@smo.uhi.ac.uk.

#ÒraidSirIain

https://twitter.com/SabhalMorOstaig/status/1719761514108739602



Join us for the 2023 Sir Iain Noble Memorial Lecture, delivered by John Norman MacLeod at 19:30, 16 November in TDC, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig.

RSVP: runaire@smo.uhi.ac.uk

#ÒraidSirIain

https://twitter.com/SabhalMorOstaig/status/1719761559507902678



Scotland could be getting its very first Gaelic university.

The Scottish Greens have proposed making Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland’s National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, a university.

https://twitter.com/ScotNational/status/1718680847245844521


Which I learned of from

https://twitter.com/WilsonMcLeod

Thank you. 

Best wishes, 
Scott


PS
Just shared this in the MIT OCW World Univ & Sch Monday Q&A on Oct 30, and with SMO Professor Abigail Burnyeat, whom I know from the Univ of Edinburgh School of Celtic and Scottish Studies  -  



Scotland World Univ & Sch and Scottish Gaelic WUaS - 

Dear Anne Brunelle (with affiliations with the main public library in Antigonish, Nova Scotia), 
(and Leaf Mansell, I think, in Glasgow, I think, and a Quaker friend, with whose family I kindly received hospitality when in Scotland in 2003-2004 ... and beginning to study in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh - which eventually became a MSc dissertation on virtual St. Kilda off the west coast of the Isle of Skye, and Professor Abigail Burnyeat, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye), 

I've unsubscribed both of you per your requests. Thanks for letting me know. 

Nice to meet you in Antigonish, Nova Scotia this August, Anne. How are you both doing? The Scotland Gaelic World Univ & Sch university and wiki schools and

Scotland World University and School https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland for free MIT OCW-centric WUaS degrees are developing too - and with a focus on Scottish Gaelic - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language (from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages) - potentially in Scottish Gaelic. 

Did you see - 

"Scotland could be getting its very first Gaelic university. 

The Scottish Greens have proposed making Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland’s National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, a university."


Retweeted by University of Edinburgh Professor Wilson McLeod - 

Pathetic anti-Gaelic cartoon in @heraldscotland 



With a reply...

Fantastic idea.
For all 7 students it can cater to, it'll be great.



How could MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch help? 


All the best, As Aye, best wishes, 
Scott





--


Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2023, forthcoming)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
 World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 





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Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers?) ?  ... searched on "Scott MacLeod, nontheist Friends, Nontheist Quakers" ....

especially - 


Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers?) wiki school for open teaching and learning - 



Found again - 

But I didn't write this ... (Did Rosemary Coffey instead?) - 

Scott MacLeod non-theist Friends

In the Light of Non-theistic Friendliness (Friends and God)
June 1, 2014

By Scott MacLeod


“Friends and God” are personal reflections from a selection of Friends on how they define God.
As a nontheistic Friend and a member of San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting, I greatly appreciate Quaker vision, community, and caring, as well as the centering and gathering of an unprogrammed Quaker meeting for worship. My positive experiences with evolutionary biology and relaxing response meditation inform my nontheistic Quakerism. The notion of God has never held much meaning for me, and I’m sympathetic with the decade-long conversations by nontheist Friends on their email list and face-to-face gatherings.

I continue to learn how to experience centeredness and gathering while connecting inwardly in unprogrammed Quaker meeting and among Friends generally, in the light of nontheistic Friendliness.



Scott MacLeod, Canyon, Calif.




Nontheist Quakers


Nontheist Friends Network
Website and blog of the Nontheist Friends Network
Nontheist Quakers 
Feedback and reflections on NFN MfW&CC 1 April 2021
Posted by Trevor
Trevor (NFN web person): I hope other Friends will contribute to these reflections.



Nontheist Friends (atheist Quakers?)
EDIT
















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Rosemary Ruether, "Sexism and God-talk" - I wrote my Reed College senior thesis in 1985 about this book -


Sexism and God-talk: Toward a Feminist Theology
Book by Rosemary Radford Ruether


Rosemary Ruether feminist theology




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Introduction
1. Feminist theology includes: demonstrating the flaws of patriarchal theology that is androcentric (man-centered),
misogynist (hating women) and sexist; finding alternative traditions to challenge this bias;
re-envisioning theological themes that will help free women from bias. It could flourish only as
women, beginning in the 1960s, entered seminaries, did professional ministry and became theologians;
the Quakers, starting in 1667, argued for a feminist reading of the scriptures; Mary Daly published The
Church and the Second Sex in 1968; rediscovery of important women like Teresa of Avila, Catherine of
Siena and Hildegard of Bingen; New Testament Studies by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza in her book In
Memory of Her (1982); work of Elizabeth Johnson, She Who Is and Sandra Schneiders; Ivone Gebara,
Brazilian eco-feminist.
2. Ruether’s Sexism and God Talk (1983) is still the most important contribution to a systematic feminist
theology. Born Nov. 2, 1936; grew up in a woman centered context, went to Catholic schools, by age
30 she had 3 children, completed her masters and doctorate, was writing her first book and was a
professor at Howard University. She also taught at Garratt-Evangelical Theological Seminary and
Pacific School of Religion; likes to paint; often speaks out against war and for Palestinian rights and for
the mentally ill (her son David has schizophrenia) and for eco-feminism. She is still a practicing
Catholic, married, teaching one class a semester at Clermont, just published her autobiography, My
Quests for Hope and Meaning. She is not a philosophical theologian but an historian of culture who
sees religious symbols as culturally conditioned and as “living metaphors of human existence.”
3. Progressive theologians (men and women) who generally like Pope Francis, have been critical of his
statements on women that reinforce gender stereotypes: women have distinctive skills “sensitivity,
intuition” “special concern” for others; “feminine genius”; women ordination not open to discussion;
women have “a particular sensitivity for the things of God” especially “mercy, tenderness and love.”

I. Ruether’s Feminist Theology
A. Methodology
1. The usual approach of drawing on Scripture and classical Christian tradition to do systematic
theology is inadequate because it simply perpetuates a sexist bias (all written by men).
2. Ruether draws on Gnostic Gospels, Pagan mythology, alternative Christian traditions like
the Quakers, reinterpretation of the Bible and Christian tradition, modern movements of
liberalism, romanticism, Marxism and the experiences of women, especially stories of
women suffering from sexism.
3. She emphasizes the Biblical prophetic tradition that has God against oppression and
opposes idolatry.
4. Whatever harms women is not of God and whatever helps women flourish is.

B. Anthropology
1. Critique: sexual complementarity puts women into a position of inferiority and subjugation;
ancient cultures had men doing the hunting and agricultural plowing while women did
never ending domestic work. Men became identified with the world of freedom and
culture while women were identified with necessity and the fixed world of nature. Genesis
portrays the woman (Eve) as temptress causing men to fall from grace. Men as well as
women are harmed by patriarchy (rule of the father). Androgyny (men taking on feminine
qualities and vice versa) simply preserves the stereotyping that causes the problem.
Aristotle identified men with mind and reason, and women with emotion, passion that must
be controlled. Christian sexism: Augustine (women not fully in divine image), Aquinas
(women are misbegotten males); Puritans saw women as dangerous and this led to witch
hunting in the 14th to 17th centuries.
2. All men and women are made in the image and likeness of God and are products of the
earth. We are relational creatures called to live in community. We all need space to
develop our distinctive gifts and talents. Men and women must help each other move
toward greater maturity. Women need to play an active role in the public world and men
must do their share of the domestic work. All human beings possess a full and equivalent
nature and are called “to live relationality” on the basis of mutuality.
3. Human consciousness is a complex form of developing matter which is always inspirited to
some degree. Intelligence is the interior dimension of human energy (influence of Teilhard)
and calls us to be caretakers and cultivators of the whole ecological community. We are
rooted in nature, in the earth.
4. The self is part of a network of relationships and not an autonomous entity. She does not
accept a “permanent soul unrelated to this context” (My Quests p. 107).
5. We possess a “complex consciousness that seeks meaning, interacts in relationships and
generates creative processes” that is “the mental interiority of the bodily self.” The mind
results from the brain and body in its social and historical context. (My Quests p. 128)

C. God
1. Critique: God seen as male justifying patriarchy. It is a mistake to add feminine imagery to
an all-male God. The apocryphal Gospels apply feminine imagery to the Holy Spirit “my
mother the Holy Spirit” leaving us with an androgynous image of the Trinity (2 males and 1
female).
2. We need inclusive language grounded in the experience of men and women.
3. Religions of the Near East had images of the “mother-goddess.” When male gods appear
they are equivalent and not complementary images of the divine.
4. Ruether speaks of God as “primal matrix” and “the great womb” (like Tillich’s ground of
being).
5. The Hebrew Scriptures. The Exodus portraying Yahweh the liberator of oppressed people:
there are references to God crying out like a woman in labor (Is 42:14-16). Wisdom is a
subtle representative of the divine presence in the world and instructs men in the mysteries
of God’s knowledge (Wisdom 8: 2-4). From the Old Testament, Ruether uses God as
liberator, the Mother who nurtures and Wisdom who guides. The Old Testament
prohibited idolatry, meaning we cannot make male imagery into an absolute, suggesting
God is male.
6. New Testament. Ruether points to Luke’s Gospel using the experiences of both men and
women. Building the kingdom is like a farmer sowing seeds and a woman leavening bread
(Lk 13:18-21). Jesus’ treatment of women is important, including them in religious
discussions (Mary and Martha in Luke 10:38-42). Ruether says Abba was used by adult
males to show respect to older men. She thinks the New Testament notion of God can lead
to a community of equals. Gal 3: 28, where it says in Christ there is neither male nor
female, represents the thrust of the teachings of Jesus and can be used to fight sexism
7. Ruether uses the word “God-ess” to suggest that we will find new ways of naming God as
we overcome patriarchy.
8. Ruether emphasizes the immanence of God, not a male God up in the sky, a being removed
from creation, but the source of being that energizes continuing transformation of nature
and the human community. God cannot intervene out of respect for the evolving world and
human freedom.
9. Ruether is leery of parent language (both mother and father) as too suffocating and favors
redeemer and liberator.

D. Sin and Salvation
1. Critique: classical theology emphasized pride as the main source of personal sin; following
Paul and Augustine put blame on Eve for original sin that caused the loss of a happy,
harmonious human existence; and failed to adequately address systemic evil and social sin.
2. A feminist criticism reveals the way women have been presented as the cause of evil in the
world. Pandora opening the box of evils and Eve tempting Adam. The original sin takes the
opposition of self and other and turns it into the good self against the other less than
human (superior males dominating inferior females masters oppressing slaves, humans
exploiting nature, etc.). Patriarchy hurts both men who are denied intimate contact with
children and women who are denied the opportunity to develop their full potential as
community leaders. All who participate in sexist relationships contribute to the
accumulated evil in the world. We can recognize this only because we begin to envision
another way of relating on the basis of equality and mutuality. Ruether says dualism is the
original sin as represented by the good and evil interpretation of sexual differences, men
representing freedom and rationality and women necessity and emotion.
3. Social sin: sexist attitudes get embedded in institutions and systems that produce false
consciousness. Males have protected their domination in various ways: women were to
keep silent in church (1 Tim); gang rapes of vulnerable women; binding feet in China;
witchcraft trials in Puritan New England, 17th century; women denied the vote until 1920;
denial of woman’s ordination in the Catholic Church; women’s fashions, for examples,
shoes; pornography; wife battering; women paid less for similar work; women doing most
of the domestic work. All of this creates an integrated patriarchal culture that becomes the
norm for human relations. Men are taught to dominate or be dominated; to abstract
themselves from the real harm being done to others; to pursue goals without thought
about means; to project onto women the alienated parts of male humanity. All sin is
relational and contributes to an atmosphere of demonic forces that in turn influence
personal choices. Sexism is a demonic power. Patriarchy is a system bigger that any of us
and extremely hard to discern and dismantle. We do have the power to oppose it even if in
small ways. Historically, female gossip has been a covert way of resisting sexism. The
feminist movement enables more women and men to overcome false consciousness. All
women have contributed to sexism in some ways (trying to please men). Older women are
often more open to seeing the destructive aspect of patriarchy, but often are dependent on
men economically and few expressing their anger and alienation. We all need a
fundamental self-esteem to build our own identity and develop our own talents. Mary Daly
helps free women to express anger and to choose their own path. Ruether is critical of
male feminists who claim to understand women’s true nature and offer advice on dealing
with sexism. She sees Jungian psychology as the intellectual base for male feminism
(Sexism p. 190). Men should be in solidarity with a particular woman or group that is
struggling to find their own way (for example, supporting her education by sharing in
domestic work).
4. Personal sin: women have the same capacity as men to dominate and control, to be selfish,
to misuse power, but men have had more opportunities to do so. Women do not have “a
different nature” or innate spiritual abilities that prevent them from distorting human
relationships. Men do have more opportunities in our culture to do sinful things that hurt
others. There are sins of omission in which men and women accept patriarchy without
challenging it. We all need to become more grounded selves that foster genuine human
relationships but this requires a supportive community.
5. Salvation occurs in this world when: individuals become agents of their own destiny;
married couples relate on a basis of equality and mutuality; small groups work for justice;
more people care for the environment; and society becomes less patriarchal.

E. Christology (Doctrine of Jesus Christ)
1. Criticism: Christians appropriated the Jewish notion of the Messiah and applied it to Jesus
without keeping its social implications while focusing on the idea of a divine savior. This led
to an anti-Judaism bias in Christianity in the New Testament, among the Fathers and still
present today. Classical Christology mirrored the establishment of Christianity as the
imperial religion of the Christian Roman Empire. Just as the Logos governs the universe, so
the Emperor and the Church govern the political universe, masters govern slaves and men
govern women. Androgynous approaches are not helpful, for example, mystics like Julian of
Norwich calling Jesus mother and father.
2. We must reinterpret Christology remembering that faith in Christ suggests a final fulfillment
with partial signs of that now and keeping Jesus in his Jewish context.
3. Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels supports feminism, a prophet who breaks social taboos,
proclaims a reversal of the social order where domination and oppression are ruled out in
favor of equality and mutuality. Jesus says call no man Father, suggesting we must avoid
oppressive social relations. Jesus tells us to obey God, not man, which is an enduring
reminder to avoid oppressive social structures. He spoke of the Messiah not as a king but as
a servant. Leaders must be servants. Jesus shows special concern for women (Samaritan
woman at the well, the Syro-Phoenician woman with a sick daughter, woman with flow of
blood, prostitutes).
4. Jesus, the homeless Jewish prophet, as liberator subverts structures of oppression and
embodies a new order based on mutuality.
5. Christ is in a dynamic relationship with redeemed humanity (vine and branches image). He
cannot be “encapsulated one-for-all in the historical Jesus” (Sexism p. 138).

F. Church
1. Critique: The image of Church as bride of Christ ends up supporting patriarchy. Nuptial
imagery supports sexual complementarity notion that makes women subservient (Eph 5
wives be subject to husbands). Mariology is used to support women being passive
receptive like Mary. The institutional Church is governed by celibate males that set the
rules and interpret the tradition. Since the time of Constantine the church has often
enjoyed privilege in return for supporting the State.
2. Church is a community of equals (Gal 3:28 in Christ there is neither male nor female –
perhaps an early baptismal text).
3. Church is a charismatic community – all members have the Spirit of Jesus who continues to
speak today. Acts 2 says the Spirit is given to men and women.
4. Woman-church movement thinks women should not seek ordination in a patriarchal church
but should join women’s base communities where there is equality in leadership (Mary
Hunt and Elisabeth Fiorenzo) this led to Women-Church Convergence that seeks to
eradicate patriarchy in church and society. Vatican has not responded.
5. The Roman Catholic Women Priests (RCWP). In 2002, seven women were ordained by a
Catholic bishop on the Danube River; several women were ordained bishops. In 2012 they
claimed 9 bishops, 81 priests in the USA, Canada and Europe. In general they are highly educated
and have much experience. They claim apostolic succession even though that concept is
challenged by scholars. In May 2008 the Vatican excommunicated all these women. Ruether
sees the 2 movements as complementary.
6. The Church, a symbol-producing community, should be the avant-garde of liberated
humanity and the support system for that process. The historic churches mostly support
patriarchy creating great disappointment among feminists. Historically, women have been
denied ministerial roles.
7. Alternate traditions: the church has never denied that the gifts of the Spirit are given to
women as well as men. Roles for women: early Gnostics, acceptance of Joan of Arc, radical
Puritans, Quakers, secularized liberal feminism fostered women’s ordination (Antoinette
Brown first woman ordained in Congregational Church in 1853). By 1970s many Protestant
denominations were ordaining women but into the same clerical caste without challenging
the sexist bias.
8. The role of base communities in transforming the church. Ruether says women need feminist
groups to nourish their spiritual life and as a prod to help redeem the institutional church
from patriarchy (a dialectical relationship). She remains a faithful Catholic, tithing her time
and energy for church reform.
9. NT ministry is service, not control. Clericalism is rooted in the belief that people have no
direct access to the divine but need clergy mediation. Ministers should empower others.
10. Sacraments: their celebration and interpretation arises from the communities’ collective
experiences of its life of grace. Liturgy uses special gestures and rituals (symbolic distance)
to open up the deeper dimensions of transformed life that gives us energy for ordinary life.
11. The liberated church must be involved in transforming society. It helps to focus energy on a
single project that offers the possibility of some success. This is a dynamic interplay
between liberating individuals and institutions. Liberalism and socialism (modern forms of
biblical notion of the Messiah) have helped Christians appreciate the social dimension of
the Gospel. Niebuhr’s Christian realism stressed human limitations in order to provide a
solid basis for a more just society. Feminist theology assumes a unity of creation and the
redeemed world of spirituality and social justice. Liberal feminism insists on the equal
rights of women based on a common human nature (right to vote, education, employment,
etc.) but domestic work keeps women from seizing new opportunities. Socialist feminism
invited women into the male-influenced workforce promising economic independence
offering state supported day care centers, etc. This strategy has not really worked and
women have not thrived in socialist economies.

Radical feminism (Mary Daly) exposes the inhumanity of males who treat women as sexual
objects and encourages a culture of rage and anger. Promotes a feminist spirituality over
against male physicality and violence (reversal of patriarchy which makes men the enemy of
women).

Integrated feminism espoused by Ruether, affirms: democratic participation; equal value of
men and women; equal access to education and jobs; gives ownership and management to
base communities; creating an organic community where men and women share in home
making and child rearing as well as political and economic public decision making; caring for
the environment in a sustainable way.

There are two ways of moving toward this new
society: (1) small groups that combine all aspects of this vision; (2) concentrating on one
part of the vision (educational opportunities for all).

G. Christian Life
1. Importance of liturgy as symbolic action. It provides an alternative vision of human
community.
2. Ecofeminism: Christian life includes living a simple lifestyle and attending to the earth, to
care for the environment. Men came to dominate nature and women in the same historical
process of creating the world of freedom and culture while controlling nature and women
the world of necessity. Women and land were seen as possessions of men who could use
them for their own ends. Men monopolized food production using plow animals and saw
themselves as owning the land. Calvinism destroyed the notion of nature as sacrament of
divine presence. (God is revealed only through the scriptural word). The natural world is
controlled by demonic powers. Women were the gateway of the devil and independent
women were often the ones tried for witchcraft in Salem and elsewhere. The scientific
revolution and the age of colonialism enabled Western Europeans to appropriate land and
resources in the Americas, Asia and Africa and to enslave indigenous populations. All of this
led to enslaving women and polluting the earth to the benefit of white males who
developed more sophisticated weapons to mainline control. Ecofeminism addresses these
problems striving for a just and sustainable planet: we must see that we came from the
earth, are dependent on the natural world, have destroyed the ecological balance, and have
to transform production, consumption and waste into sustainable patterns that help keep
nature healthy. We are nature becoming conscious of itself. God is the imminent source
that sustains the whole planetary community, the font that produces such a variety of
plants and animals, the matrix that sustains the whole ecosystem. All relations of
domination must be replaced by relationships that are mutually enriching: men and women
sharing public and domestic work; humans working together to sustain the world of nature
and the cycle of growth and disintegration which we share. Today climate change caused
by burning fossil fuel leads to melting of polar ice caps, rising sea levels, flooding and odd
weather patterns.

Starhawk female American neo-pagan activist offers 5 principles for an
alternative economy: (1) shift from fossil fuels to solar and wind; (2) more human labor and
less machines; (3) recycling of waste as fertilizer; (4) cultivation of biological and cultural
diversity; (5) greater efficiency in using resources. Other ecofeminists include Brazilian
liberation theologian Ivana Gerhara and process theologian Catherine Keller. Ruether
supports smaller local forms producing crops for local consumption (there are about 1.000
community-supported farms in the US); an increase in urban and suburban gardens. We
can learn from monasticism that rejected excessive consumption, cultivated the land, while
abstaining from meat, and promoting sustainable use of resources.

H. Eschatology (Theory of the end-times)
1. Critique: traditional popular view on immortality of the soul that separates from the body in
death and goes to heaven, hell or purgatory. Ruether thinks this denigrates the body and
nature and is part of a patriarchal theology.
2. Babylonians had no sense of the afterlife and the Gilgamesh Epic suggested the secret for
immortality was useless or a failure; the early Israelites had no belief in a blissful afterlife
but developed hope in a Messiah who would bring a new era of happiness, peace and
justice for the righteous. Late Jewish thought incorporated notions of the immortality of
the soul (Wisdom 3: 1-9 – the souls of the just are in the hands of God). Early Christianity
kept the apocalyptic notion of a new era: for example, the Book of Revelations speaks of a
millennium when Christians arise and reign with Christ followed by a final battle with the
Devil and a final judgment when the evil are punished in everlasting fire and the good are
rewarded. By the Constantine era (4th century) mainline Christianity focused on the
immortality of the soul separated from the body.
3. Paul developed the idea of a spiritual body freed from finite limitations and the particularity
of gender. Gregory of Nyssa (c 335-395) and the other Greek Fathers thought humans
originally had spiritual bodies, took on carnal bodies in the Fall but regain spiritual bodies in
heaven. Augustine taught the female spiritual body in heaven would no longer excite lust.
4. Ruether notes the work of Vine Deloria, God is Red, that contrasts: the view of Native
Americans that does not fear death because it does not seek personal mortality but accepts
collective immortality in being buried in the earth with ancestors; and the white man’s
desire for personal immortality and consequent fear of death and belief in a personal
afterlife.
5. She criticizes liberal thought and socialism for a utopian view that the kingdom can be
established on this earth often at the expense of care for the natural world (great pollution
in China).
6. She cites Anne Wilson Schaef’s Women’s Reality, claiming men are more interested in
personal immortality than women who are more accepting of finitude.
7. Ruether’s own position: accept life on its own terms including the cycle of birth and death.
Do all we can to create a more just, peaceful and livable world without expecting utopia.
Hebrew practice of the Jubilee Year is instructive: debt forgiveness, slaves released, land
and animals rest (Lev 25:8-12). Every social movement leaves something undone and
generates new contradictions. Jesus, who came to liberate captives and provide daily bread
and preaching to the poor is our model.
8. Ruether thinks agnosticism is the appropriate response to the question of personal
immortality. Upon death, our conscious ego dissolves back into the cosmic matrix.
Accepting death means accepting our finitude and the abiding character of the everlasting
matrix that contains us all. We must trust Holy Wisdom to give transcendent meaning to all
our attempts to do good.

II. Ruether and Pope Francis
A. Personally: She likes him, applauds his care for the poor, thinks he should appoint women to
high places but does not expect him to do anything on women’s ordination. She personally
does not want to put energy into convincing him.

B. Her theology challenges the common patriarchal outlook shared by the Pope and suggests
some practical advice in responding to feminist interests.

1. It attacks the root cause of patriarchy that transforms reproductive gender differences into
a value-laden theory of sexual complementarity that prizes male characteristics over female
traits. Hans Urs von Balthesar made this into a philosophical principle. Ruether insists that this theory of sexual complementarity is a product of historical development and should be
abandoned as harmful to men as well as women.
2. Anthropology: do not speak about women’s innate maternal instincts; but raise up
examples of strong women’s involvement in public life like Dorothy Day.
3. God: do not limit your language about God to male imagery like Father, King and Lord; but
sometimes speak of God as Mother, Liberator and Source of Life.
4. Sin and Salvation: do not support the abuses of patriarchy; but take steps to bring greater
equality to the church and society.
5. Jesus: do not preach only on the Exalted Jesus of John’s Gospel; but call us to imitate the
synoptic Jesus who came to liberate captives and serve others.
6. Church: do not totally close off the discussion of women priests; but listen to the experience
of women ministers and re-examine the arguments for women’s ordination.
7. Christian Life: do not divorce liturgy and life; but call all of us to continue Christ’s work of
establishing equality, justice and peace.
8. Eschatology: do not allow thoughts of heaven to divert us from healing this world; but find
creative ways to combine the struggle for gender equality and care for the environment.








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Book Review: "Sexism and God-Talk" by Rosemary R. Ruether
“We need to start with language for the divine as redeemer,

as liberator, as one who fosters full personhood and in that context,

speak of God as creator, as source of being.”


At times, her discourse brings up a post-structuralist definition of what a patriarchal society means to her: it “erects a false system of alienated dualisms modelled on its distorted and oppressive social relationships.”[7] She highlights what she calls “the patriarchalization of Christology” by drawing a correlation that defines this hierarch of being: The Logos of God governs the cosmos, the emperor and church govern the political order, masters govern slaves, and men govern women. Ruether’s counter proposal is that “fundamentally, Jesus renews the prophetic vision whereby the Word of God does not validate the existing social and religious hierarchy but speaks on behalf of the marginalized and despised groups of society,”[8] and one of those marginalized groups are women.

Bibliography

Rosemary Radford Ruether. Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology. Boston: Beacon Press, 1983.


 [1] Ruether, Rosemary Radford, Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology (Boston: Beacon Press, 1983), xvi.
 [2] Ruether, 1.
 [3] Ibid., 45.
 [4] Ibid., 260.
 [5] Ibid., 95.
 [6] Ibid., 152.
 [7] Ibid., 71.
 [8] Ibid., 136.



At times, her discourse brings up a post-structuralist definition of what a patriarchal society means to her: it “erects a false system of alienated dualisms modelled on its distorted and oppressive social relationships.”[7] She highlights what she calls “the patriarchalization of Christology” by drawing a correlation that defines this hierarch of being: The Logos of God governs the cosmos, the emperor and church govern the political order, masters govern slaves, and men govern women. Ruether’s counter proposal is that “fundamentally, Jesus renews the prophetic vision whereby the Word of God does not validate the existing social and religious hierarchy but speaks on behalf of the marginalized and despised groups of society,”[8] and one of those marginalized groups are women.

Bibliography

Rosemary Radford Ruether. Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology. Boston: Beacon Press, 1983.


 [1] Ruether, Rosemary Radford, Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology (Boston: Beacon Press, 1983), xvi.
 [2] Ruether, 1.
 [3] Ibid., 45.
 [4] Ibid., 260.
 [5] Ibid., 95.
 [6] Ibid., 152.
 [7] Ibid., 71.
 [8] Ibid., 136.









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SEXISM AND GOD-TALK: Toward a Feminist Theology
BY ROSEMARY R. RUETHER
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 30, 1983
Much talk about sexism, rather less about God, in this vigorous, wide-ranging, but problematic proposal for radical surgery on Christian tradition. Ruether argues forcefully that although Christianity has been twisted out of shape by a male bias, Jesus' message implies the ""kenosis of patriarchy"" and hence can be embraced by modern feminists as a liberating vision of humanity. The catch is that, like most liberal theologies, Ruether's has to excise so much age-old doctrine, practice, and imagery (everything from ""male monotheism"" to the equally masculine obsession with personal immortality) that it strains historical continuity to the breaking point. It's hard to recognize the God of the Bible in Ruether's ""God/ess who. . . leads us to the converted center, the harmonization of self and body, self and other, self and world."" Religion here seems to be a Durkheimian celebration and symbolic validation of the community, as when Ruether defines the Eucharist not as the body and blood of Christ but as ""the people, the ecclesia, who are being transformed into the body of the new humanity. . . ."" This may appeal to left-wing Christian intellectuals like Harvey Cox and Robert McAfee Brown (who have already praised the book), but it will strike most believers as secular humanism (of a romantic-socialist sort) in pious trappings. Perhaps Ruether herself senses this, because she spends much of her time on all-purpose exposition of contemporary feminism--an eloquent plea, somewhat marred by rhetorical overkill (high fashion as the ""sadistic tyranny"" of woman-hating dress designers, the pulpit as a phallus ejaculating ""upon the passive body of the laity,"" etc.). Ruether's pervasive intelligence and breadth of sympathy make this essay worthwhile, but her synthesis of feminism and the gospel in prophetic-revolutionary-utopian hope is, for all its nobility, a shaky one.










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Paul Jolly's October 2023 Poetry Blog
Greetings.  Thank you for entering with me this terrain where I get revenge on, make sense of, find peace in, and otherwise fold, spindle, and mutilate the adult world.

The hospital’s heroes
      Freezing gasses and small objects may 
      be discharged without notice from vents above.
Sign at Kaiser Hospital, Oakland
 
The hospital’s heroes are not nuerosurgeons 
and cariologists, who speed from reserved
parking lot spot to operating room, earn big,
are excused for bad manners.  The janitor 
 
matters more. Absent her vigilance, sepsis 
and MRSA rule, and covid sneaks and snakes 
nostril to nostril.  Plus mice, gnats and plain 
old dirt.  (Pause for applause: the janitor.)
 
The janitor is night-shift invisible.  All her work
is channeled to the back of the basement,
where the incinerator roars and the trash
truck backs to the loading dock.
 
The wraps that protect a fraction of patient 
dignity, the plastic sheath that assures
doctor and patient: “this puncture tool 
is fresh from the autoclave,” all the swabs 
 
and iodine-soaked towelettes, the tissue 
the protects exam room beds from patient
cooties, the tissue scraped from patient 
bodies and scrutinized by lab techs, 
 
all are shuffled to the janitor’s domain,
except random detritus erupts from these very
visible pipes, between Emergency and Non emergency 
entrances, labeled: Freezing gasses and small 
 
objects may be discharged without notice 
from vents above.  The hospital janitor needs
no Nobel prize in medicine, no thank you
notes slipped under her supply closet door.  
 
She is content that people wonder what low-bulk
detritus, what OR off-gasses, what germ-clotted
lint-clouds, mouse-bits or human-bits those pipes 
might extrude, no warning, at odd intervals.

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Hi Paul, 

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From the archives. Opening of a medical school in Shanghai early 20c, showing my great grandfather, Edward Hume. At right, a 2018 reunion of the descendants of people in the photo, including me & Michael Chou, of Harvard University (Church Lab).  photo c/o Michael Chou.

https://twitter.com/antonioregalado/status/1718666949591199847


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Creating the [[China Medical School at WUaS]], as a second of ~200 planned WUaSunivs' nation states' medical schools, - and potentially to collaborate with MIT Tech Review Biotech Editor Antonio Regalado - https://x.com/antonioregalado/status/1718666949591199847?s=20


Hi Ma,

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https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1719360636533018834

https://twitter.com/antonioregalado/status/1718666949591199847 ...

What are you up to this week?

Love, abolition-ally, hoping you're doing well,
Scott
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