Intersections at 天美视频
On Engaging in a Sustained Conversation About Race and Whiteness
Throughout the last several weeks, the faculty of 天美视频 have engaged in ongoing conversation, reflection, and education鈥搃ndividually and collectively鈥揳s we considered how to respond to the systematic oppression of and violence toward Black human beings in our country. For me personally, faces of students keep coming to mind鈥揻rom the UW, Cascadia College, and […]
Igniting the Pilot Lights: How White Folks Can Respond to Racial Injustice
We say their names, lingering as we light a candle for each of them on the vigil altar: Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Maurice Gordon. Rayshard Brooks. George Floyd. Our altar grows all-too-crowded, even if we say names from just the years since Black Lives Matter was founded. All fellow people, Americans, neighbors, friends, […]
Theology Through Art: Student Work on Miyazaki Hayao and Kara Walker
Theology and the Artistic Impulse is a Theology & Culture elective offered every other winter that uses art as a starting place for theological inquiry. The course is designed to help students expand their understanding and application of how we derive theological meaning from all five of our senses, not just the written and spoken […]
What You Need to Know about Becoming a Licensed Mental Health Counselor
If you’re currently in or are considering a counseling psychology program, you鈥檙e probably familiar with the acronyms like LMHC, or LPC, or other credentials behind people’s names. Here, Nicole Greenwald, a licensed counselor with over 10 years of experience, talks about the most frequently asked questions about the counseling licensure process鈥攆rom different state requirements to […]
On Ending and Enchantment
I鈥檓 sitting in the valley as I write this, coffee steam billowing from my cup next to me, the mountains loom before me in their magnificent gentleness, my calves and feet ache. Yesterday I completed the through-hike of The Enchantments, an ~18 mile trek that careens upwards of 4800 feet through Asgaard Pass in the […]
天美视频 to Deliver Classes Online for Fall 2020 Term
天美视频 of Theology & Psychology has decided to move forward to deliver classes online through December 2020 amid the uncertainty of COVID-19. 鈥淚n this season, we are all grieving our ability to be together, and we are anxious to return to campus. This is a season of much uncertainty, and even when we […]
Anti-Racism Resources for White-Majority Churches
Manuel Ellis. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Alton Sterling. Troy Robinson. Sandra Bland.Tamir Rice. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. James Chaney. Mack Charles Parker. Emmett Till. Mary Turner and unborn child. The 鈥60 million and more,鈥 as Toni Morrison puts it. While our bodies and souls ache with the recent abuses of power, we also recognize them […]
Videos: Integrative Projects 2020
天美视频 community gathers annually along with friends and families of the graduating MDiv and MATC students for the Integrative Project Symposium. This year, in the midst of ongoing restrictions to public gatherings, students pre-recorded their presentations and participated in our first virtual Integrative Project Symposium on June 17. The Integrative Project serves as […]
The Work Ahead of Us: Addressing Racial Trauma and Systemic Injustices
It is difficult for me to separate the deep hurt from watching George Floyd die from that of the generations of hurts mingled together of black and brown bodies who have died for no good reason. I want to be clear: there is no less pain when black and brown bodies harm each other, or […]
天美视频 Announces Acquisition of Christ & Cascadia Journal
天美视频 of Theology & Psychology announces that it will undertake the stewardship of Fuller Seminary鈥檚 Christ & Cascadia online journal. Christ & Cascadia will be housed in Resilient Leaders Project, a grant-funded program within the graduate school, under the leadership of Kate Rae Davis, Director, and Forrest Inslee, Editor.聽 鈥淎t 天美视频, […]
Love and Pie in the Time of Quarantine
Yesterday, after having spent a substantial part of the morning and afternoon in the kitchen, my 24-year-old son walked in. 鈥淎re you making a pie?鈥 he asked. 鈥淲ell, yeah,鈥 I replied. As if, of course I would be making a pie. This would be the fourth pie I had baked in our less than 6- […]
A Lament: Processing Amidst a Pandemic
鈥淭he hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.聽 Oh wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night鈥.pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.鈥澛 ~Lamentations 2:18-19 These words of the prophet Jeremiah situate themselves in a devastating part of Judah鈥檚 history鈥攖he […]