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On the Ecclesiastical Path
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On the Ecclesiastical Path According to Kirby Spivey ’98, assistant pastor of Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., “You can never go wrong if you speak to the heart of the people.” He was born in Newtonville, N.J., an “up-south” city founded by some of his ancestors. According to Spivey, the culture of up-south settlements in the North came about when “migration after the Emancipation Proclamation led to the forming and keeping of southern customs.” Spivey grew up in the black church, specifically the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, which family members worked to create. The social mission that infused his upbringing in the church inspired work that now stretches beyond urban New York to Africa.
Spivey credits Bucknell for giving him a broad sense of world religions, something he notes as important for building tolerance in all people and even avoiding war. “War in the world is based on one way of thinking,” he says. “We need insight into people, rather than the systems ruling them.” He found the threat of Koran burning in Florida to commemorate September 11 particularly disturbing, describing the thwarted action as “utter ignorance and pure disrespect. How would I feel if people burned the Bible?” Although Spivey began his studies at Bucknell as a pre-med major, he ultimately majored in religion and anthropology and minored in African-American studies. He attended Princeton Theological Seminary where he received master of divinity and master of theology degrees. Today, he is active in teaching and preaching in Brooklyn; however, his mission expands to Kenya, where he aids Machakos Baptist Church with a mobile education initiative. During his training, Spivey spent 11 weeks teaching at the church’s school and later connected with Machakos’ pastor, the Reverend John Mbinzi, through Facebook. Spivey plays an instrumental role in sending critical supplies to Kenya, helping to bring education to children who would otherwise be completely cut off from a better future due to economic misfortune. — Maria Jacketti Ancient Subversives A classics professor turns to poetry to uncover secrets about Pindar and Penelope.
Stephanie Larson, associate professor of classics, hopes to make the ancient world relevant to her students and reveal new layers of a still-mysterious past through her original research on poetry from the time. She is researching a book about the ancient Greek poet Pindar, who was born in Boeotia in 522 B.C. Early in his career as a local lyric bard, Pindar made “cultural history as an individual poet,” says Larson. His performances commanded high fees, and included the Pan-Hellenic Games in Olympia and spectacles at Delphi. As with many literary figures of his time, getting to know Pindar is a difficult task. Detailed biographical information is scarce; however, Larson has been able to piece together details of his life by examining his extant poetry. Her preliminary research reveals that despite Pindar’s mainstream success, he was a rebel of the times, using poetry to counteract the negative stereotypes of his home province. By tracing the development of a typical Pindarian ode, Larson has discerned patterns the poet used to extol the virtues of Boeotia. He tended to praise local heroes, such as Herakles, a Theban, and also interspersed details of his own life in his work. Larson is also working on a series of articles dealing with Greek poets Sappho and Herodotus. And let us not forget the dame, Penelope. Over the ages, men have praised Penelope as a patient, chaste and long-suffering wife, the ideal of Greek womanhood. Yet it appears that Penelope, too, was subversive. Larson’s newest findings suggest that Penelope was a shrewd queen, holding suitors at bay and perhaps even manipulating them during Odysseus’ absence from Ithaca, ultimately achieving matrimonial equality with the king through her persistently veiled intelligence, ruses and tests. Larson’s research on Herodotus examines his view of Eros, the Greek god of love, as applied to politics of the day. Herodotus viewed erotic excess—particularly that of the rival Persian King—as a political liability. FACULTY PROFILE James Baish James Baish, professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering, is spending his sabbatical year conducting research to answer some of medicine’s most fundamental quandaries. He has been collaborating with Geisinger Medical Center’s Department of Urology on the development of a computer program that can depict and measure urine flow through the ureter. Understanding the shapes of obstructions can lead to simpler and more effective treatments. This research is geared toward treating blockages most commonly found in infants.
to normalize blood vessels so chemotherapy can treat tumors with greater efficiency and success. Baish began his career in mechanical engineering, recognizing early the value in the merger of medicine and engineering. He believes that pre-med students should investigate new opportunities in this field, because the merger between the two disciplines has the potential to improve patient care and treatment in ways we have yet to imagine. —Maria Jacketti
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