Today on episode 7 of the Listening in Place Project, Cassie Carroll (Master of Divinity, 鈥�16) talks with Gideon Tsang of Vox Veniae and Space 12 in east Austin about beginnings, listening, rest, and self-awareness. Gideon on starting a church: I always felt like they were holding us back. But, in hindsight, I think I […]
Dr. J. Derek McNeil, Academic Dean and host of text.soul.culture, is joined by Dr. Forrest Inslee, Professor at Northwest University and Adjunct Faculty at 天美视频. Derek and Forrest explore his work as an ethnographer, what is means to truly listen to and read culture, meaning making, and where the church is headed. 聽 […]
天美视频 fosters an ongoing relationship with St. Luke鈥檚 Episcopal Church in Ballard, as a reflection of our desire to dream up new visions of what it means to be the Church, and as part of our larger mission: people to be competent in the study of text, soul, and culture in order to […]
For the last five years, Richard Kim (Master of Divinity 鈥�11) has worked to wrestle with the intersections of identity and race as it pertains to our work at 天美视频, and to engage the broader desire to see a more just and equitable future for everyone. In this video from Symposia 2016, Richard, […]
Transformative education deepens our capacity to discern truth, beauty, and goodness in the stories and texts around us鈥攅ven those that seem like unlikely texts. Here, Brittany Deininger, who will graduate from 天美视频 with her MA in Theology & Culture this month, writes about her experience viewing the latest X-Men movie, Logan, and about […]
On March 17, 天美视频 hosted Dr. Cornel West for the fourth annual Alumni Lecture Series. For the evening conversation, 鈥淎rt as Resistance,鈥� Dr. West was interviewed by Tom Ryan (Master of Divinity, 鈥�07) about the music that roots and ignites his work as an activist and his resistance to the forces of hatred […]
It is perhaps no secret that the church鈥攑articularly the American evangelical church鈥攊s not always successful at viewing individuals as embodied, holistic beings, nor at considering the impact of its programs and structures on the families of those who serve. In this video, Alexander Michael Zarecki (MA in Theology & Culture, 鈥�16) presents on his Integrative […]
As the Pacific Northwest continues to shake off the cold and gray of a long, hard winter, Heather Casimere, first-year MA in Theology & Culture student, writes about a recent season of refreshment and rejuvenation. Heather reflects on the experience of remembering that she is beloved, so much so that it becomes an imperative: Be […]
It might be easy for many of us to forget that we were once adolescents, and to forget that the anguish, confusion, and fear that might be too easily written off as 鈥渄rama鈥� once consumed our world. In this video, Elizabeth Page DeVere (MATC) presents on her project, 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Role in Helping Young Girls Spread […]
On June 2, we will gather as a community for the annual Integrative Project Symposium, an opportunity to witness and celebrate the bold, thoughtful, and creative work of our graduating Master of Divinity and MA in Theology & Culture students. Here, Brittany Deininger (MATC) writes about memory, art, and the voices and ideas that have […]
An invitation to wrestle with our story in a way that leads to transformation is also an invitation to see the intrigue, beauty, and complexity in the stories of those who are different from us. Here, Heather Casimere writes about her family of origin, the role her brothers have played in her life, and what […]
Today we鈥檙e excited to feature the fourth episode of the Listening in Place Project with Cassie Carroll (Master of Divinity, 鈥�16), which we share monthly here on the Intersections blog. After graduating from 天美视频, Cassie launched Listening in Place, a venture in which she is collecting stories from church planters, practitioners, pastors, social […]