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Scott
Cairns, professor of English and director
of the MU Creative Writing Program and Center for Literary
Arts, recently published two books. His prose memoir, Short
Trip to the Edge: A Pilgrimage to Where Earth Meets Heaven,
was released in February 2007. The work earned him a 2006 Guggenheim
Fellowship. Cairns - whose work often seeks to articulate faith
through poetry and prose - also recently published a book of
translations and adaptations, Love's Immensity: Mystics
on the Endless Life, which is to be released May 31, 2007.
Mary
Jo Neitz, professor in the MU Department of Sociology,
will serve as president of the Association
for the Sociology of Religion in 2008. Neitz has studied women
in charismatic Catholic, Neopagan and contemporary Wiccan faiths.
She is developing a project examining feminist theology and lay
women in religious groups.
Carl
Esbeck,
a professor with the MU School of Law and an expert on church-state
relations, shared comments on the Missouri Supreme Court’s
recent decision in Saint
Louis University v. Masonic Temple Association of St. Louis in
the April 23, 2007, issue of Missouri Lawyers Weekly. Read the article here.
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