{"id":4941,"date":"2006-11-17T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T19:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:36:36","slug":"sojourners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2006\/11\/17\/sojourners\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor jump-starts conversation in Spiritual Sojourners series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/11\/72nordell062.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"121\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/11\/72nordell062.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"72nordell062\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roderick Nordell, a retired editor for the Christian Science Monitor, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, at 161 Wood St., as part of &#8220;Spiritual Sojourners,&#8221; a series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain at Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge. For more information, call the chaplain&#8217;s office at 207-786-8272.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People, whose lives tell a notable story, share their stories as &#8216;starter dough&#8217; for conversation about meaning, purpose, challenge, passion, desire, courage, loss transition, friendship, encouragement, justice, compassion and the sacred,&#8221; says Bates College Chaplain Bill Blaine-Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Alexandria, Minn., Nordell graduated from Harvard University, with time out during World War II for Pacific service in a Marine Air Wing. A summer job as a copy clerk at the Monitor turned into a lifetime of writing and editing for the paper and its monthly magazine, World Monitor, for which he was executive editor. He has been married since 1955 to Joan P. Nordell; they have three children and four grandchildren. On the side he plays drums in his jazz band.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nordell&#8217;s talk, the second in the series, will be followed by six additional 90-minute presentations throughout the balance of the academic year. Each talk is held at 161 Wood St., and begins at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the schedule:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Dec. 12, The Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen, Episcopal bishop of Maine<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Jan. 11, Paul Solman, business and economics correspondent for PBS&#8217;s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Feb. 15, Jane Costlow, Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Bates College<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0March 15, Sue Houchins, associate professor of African American Studies and special assistant to the president, Bates College<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0April 26, The Rev. Deborah Little-Wyman, founder and missioner of Common Cathedral in Boston<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0May 17, Calvin Dube, Bates junior Carolyn McNamara of Wenham, Mass., and Kim Wettlaufer, the hands and hearts of Jubilee Center, Lewiston<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roderick Nordell, a retired editor for the Christian Science Monitor, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, at 161 Wood St., as part of &#8220;Spiritual Sojourners,&#8221; a series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain at Bates College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[17,11009],"tags":[6111,11648],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-partners-public","category-the-college","tag-multifaith-chaplaincy","tag-religion-and-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159639,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/159639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}