Alumni Spotlight: Mary DeJong and Waymarkers
Mary DeJong (MATC, ’17) shares about how her time at 天美视频 helped inform the work she does in ecotheology, spiritual formation, and pilgrimage through her organization Waymarkers.
Editorial
All the Stars Are Closer
Heather Casimere writes about how Black Panther opened up space for her to visualize, celebrate, and draw closer to who she is and where she comes from.
The Poetic Justice of Empathy
Dr. Curt Thompson, who will visit 天美视频 April 20-21, writes about empathy that compels us to action on behalf of each other.
A Tender Touch for Dirty Feet
As we observe Maundy Thursday and Jesus washing the feet of the disciples, Dr. Dan Allender recalls his own experience of feet-washing and what it revealed to him about the holiness of tender touch that is too much to bear.
Roundup: Emerging from Lent
As we near the end of the Lenten season, here’s a roundup of a few of the resources that are helping ground us in this season. May they allow you to pause, breathe, and feel the movement and hope of new life鈥攅ven long after Easter Sunday has passed.
The Quest of Transformation
As we near the end of our Lenten journey, Dr. J. Derek McNeil, Senior Vice President of Academics, reminds us that the challenges of the wilderness are part of the quest toward transformation and the call to collective healing.
Charge to the President: The Third at the Edge of the Salish Sea
In his Charge to the President at the Inauguration of Dr. Craig Detweiler, Dr. Roy Barsness offers a charge to us all, an exhortation to remember, restore, and reimagine.
Our Collective Wilderness
Beau Denton writes about the Lenten invitation to wait in the wilderness without looking for a quick, shallow fix鈥攁n invitation to the kind of healing that only comes when we witness and acknowledge each other鈥檚 pain.
Metaphors Be With You
Brittany Deininger explores the ways that metaphors shape how we view the world, speak of God, and think about that which seems beyond language.
Three Billboards, Flannery O鈥機onnor, and Our Capacity for Good and Evil
Brittany Deininger explores how Three Billboards, like Flannery O鈥機onnor鈥檚 A Good Man Is Hard to Find, challenges our conceptions of anger, violence, and the polarities of humanity embodied in each of us.
Playfulness
As we pursue hard, meaningful work and wrestle with challenging realities, Heather reminds us that a little bit of childlike playfulness can go a long way.
How to 鈥楧eny Yourself鈥� Without Destroying Yourself
Dr. Ron Ruthruff writes that 鈥渄enying yourself鈥� is about something much more revolutionary than the shame-based messages we may have heard.