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Welcome to Diverse Thought ABOUT THE WEBSITE: Life provides a profusion of enigmas, problems, and wonderings to write and to think about. I hope this internet opportunity will give you a doorway to good thinking and sharing. it would please me to become an evolving part of a mutually growing experience. Those who learn and those who teach, in the best of times, are the same individuals —indeed integral and living participants in a single, embracing process. The two works of art below (Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer and an Illustration by Maxfield Parrish) —they mean to convey that 'Diverse Thought' will concern itself both with ideas, conditions, and events of some depth and with those contemplations not as weighty, more everyday but no less real.
ABOUT MYSELF: Most of my life has been spent trying to be helpful in one way or another. After graduating from The College of Wooster and Harvard Divinity School, I worked nearly a decade in Settlement Houses and Mental Health Care Centers for the severely disturbed. Soon after and for seven years I labored in publicly funded Urban Renewal Programs within deteriorated sections of Boston's inner city, for the most part in upper-level administrative positions. Then, after taking my vows, I spent twenty-five years as a protestant minister directing a shelter for hungry and homeless women and men. Contemporaneous with this mission work, I taught Sociology at Salem State College and hosted a radio program called 'Reflections' on WESX. Though I teach still and manage this website, I more than not consider myself retired from professional life.
A Book of Essays,
Homilies, and Lectures Chapters Can Be Found Thusly: Chapters One Thru Four: On Webpage
Titled: Ethics, Conflict and Love To Read a
Calendar for Daily Contemplation (A Year of Turning Leaves),
To Read An Ecclesiology for Christian Churches, To
Read A Book of Poetry, 2010, To Read
Prose and Poesy: A Book of Short Stories and Verse, ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Salem University College: Lectures Lectures of Dr. G. Else Wiersma You can download any of these files by placing your mouse pointer on the file you wish to download and click your 'right' mouse button, select "Save Target As" with your left mouse button (reverse if you have a left handed mouse), and save the selected document to a location of your choice to open locally on your computer. I recommend saving to your desktop so you can find the document easily.
Lectures in Sociology
Article: Emile Durkheim, Suicide
Introduction to Sociology
Heroism
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