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Called to the Radical Welcome of God
In 2021, the Collegeville Institute hosted a virtual writing workshop led by Dori Baker and Patrice Gopo titled Our Possess Deep Wells: Writing on Vocation Across Race and Culture. The online workshop began each day listening to participants’ responses to the prompt: “Tell a story about a specific person, practice, or tradition that called you to life.”
This essay by Pastor Liz Miller relates her particular vocation story. Click here to read other essays that came from this and the 2019 offering of this workshop.
Every pastor has a pocketful of stories to haul out when someone asks, “When were you called to ministry?” I provide affirming anecdotes that indicate toward a sense of vocation, such as the transformational week in college spent at an intentional Christian community in South Georgia that left me saying, “Yes, I need to live with that kind of faithful legitimacy, but maybe not on a rural farm. Is there authenticity in the suburbs?” I tell light to digest stories for the sake of uncomplicated explanations. The deeper correctness is that parts of my calling are more complicated, written in grief and loss. Those stories I leave crumpled up,
50 years after ‘courageous’ LGBTQ vote, East Lansing still has ways to move for inclusion
EAST LANSING — It brings city employee Justin Drwencke some peace of mind knowing they can't be fired at function for talking about their partner, thanks to East Lansing's decades-old ban on discrimination.
Drwencke, who came out as gay in 2006, is an East Lansing administrative services coordinator and has worked for the city for more than 2 years.
They knew about East Lansing’s historic 1972 vote to forbid hiring discrimination based on sexual orientation – the first in the nation to do so – since their college days at Michigan State University.
While it’s important, Drwencke said, to acknowledge the city’s success during the vote’s 50th anniversary, it’s necessary to acknowledge the bleak national landscape for lesbian, gay, double attraction, transgender and questioning and/or queer community's rights, with bills targeting those rights introduced in many states.
“So, there's cause for celebrating this milestone anniversary,” they said. “Also some hesitancy as we look forward and making sure that we continue to guard that legacy.”
Elaine Hardy, East Lansing's diversity, equity and inclusion dire
Research Interests: I am interested in the mechanisms of plant root uptake of pharmaceutical and personal nurture product ingredients and other contaminants from treated wastewater.
Undergraduate
2012 – BS in Biochemistry/Environmental Studies with a concentration in Conservation Biology from Warren Wilson College
Current Research – Spring 2015
I learning the mechanisms of plant root uptake of pharmaceutical and personal care product ingredients (PPCPs). These contaminants are not effectively removed during wastewater treatment, and so can create their way into agricultural systems via water used for irrigation and/or biosolids used for fertilizer. Many studies possess shown that PPCPs can be taken up by at least some crop plants in some systems, but these studies have not been sufficient to elucidate mechanisms of uptake/bioaccumulation. Due to the high number of PPCPs create in treated wastewater and the continuing development of recent pharmaceuticals, models predicting uptake and bioaccumulation are imperative for risk assessment. Comparison of results from descriptive studies indicates that more than just the lipophilicity of the contaminant governs uptake, yet discrepancies in