Sean Rowe

Sep 23, 2024 | vegnews.com | Charlotte Pointing |Sean Rowe

Without foraging, none of us would be here. Before farming, our earliest ancestors relied on gathering berries, nuts, seeds, and vegetables to survive. Their diets were supplemented by meat, but research suggests that, for the most part, it was plant-based foods that kept many of them alive. In January 2024, for example, one study published in Plos One, analyzed the remains of 24 early humans in Peru and suggested that their diets were likely 80 percent plants and 20 percent meat.

Jul 3, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Samuel Wells |Sean Rowe |D. L. Mayfield |Bob Smietana

In a 420-2 vote, Jihyun Oh was elected and then installed as the next stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) general assembly Monday. Oh, who’s currently director of Mid Council Ministries in the Office of the General Assembly, begins her new work on August 1. Oh is the first Korean American, the second woman, and the first woman of color to serve in the denomination’s highest ecclesial office.

Jul 3, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Samuel Wells |Sean Rowe |D. L. Mayfield |Bob Smietana

The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Monday to divest from Israel bonds and begin the process of encouraging two companies it believes are contributing to human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied territories to quit their practices. Both votes were wrapped up in other legislation that passed unanimously as part of the biennial gathering of the denomination meeting online and in person in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Jul 3, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Samuel Wells |Sean Rowe |D. L. Mayfield |Bob Smietana

If you want to patent a personal innovation of yours for which you wish to secure the rights, you’d be smart to learn about the doctrine of obviousness. It’s the most fundamental principle of patent law and the most commonly litigated issue in patent infringement cases. Section 103 of the US Patent Act bars the patenting of any invention that would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the relevant field when the invention was created.

Jul 2, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Eva HOFFMAN |Samuel Wells |Sean Rowe |D. L. Mayfield

This illuminating study by novelist, historian, and critic Eva Hoffman is a literary biography of the Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. One of the greatest writers of our time, Miłosz captures in much of his writing the intensities of a violent century of war and the terrors of authoritarian regimes. A Catholic who helped to shelter Jews, he writes about the Holocaust, but he also writes about the loneliness and longing of exile, reaching back into memory of the particulars of his early life.