![]() ![]() I have learned from family members in the healthcare profession that securing airway management is the first responder’s top priority. How are we breathing together in these campus Study Centers? This season of dealing with the Covid-19 respiratory pandemic is forcing us all to think about our breathing impairments. With multiple asthmatic children, it is a topic she knows well. ![]() One assignment led her to create a presentation on the environmental triggers for asthma and how to address the resulting breathing impairment. This essay is inspired (this too from the Latin inspare or to “breathe upon)” by my wife of 45 years and a Community College course she is taking to continue her Maine teaching certification into her 43rd year. Located on college campuses across the country Christian Study Centers are intimate venues – often houses like ours in Brunswick, Maine – where students learn to breathe together the words of God, in scripture, publications, readings, song and prayer. ![]() According to the Latin conspirare or to “breathe together,” we must say that the Study Center movement, of which the JAMS is a part, is therefore a conspiracy. Some students have reported that this is one place on campus where Christian students can breathe the same air together. The Joseph and Alice McKeen Study Center at Bowdoin College (affectionately referred to as the JAMS by the students) was conceived as a place for Christian students to meet around square tables, elbow to elbow, reading scriptures aloud, singing songs in crowded rooms, praying prayers with hands locked in solidarity. ![]()
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