Intersections at 天美视频
A Response to the Oppressive, 鈥楽tandardized鈥 Image of Beauty
Growing up, water was home. My body was free when I was submerged in it. Whenever I jumped, dove, danced, or maneuvered in exaggerated ways, I did not get hurt nor faced the physical consequences as if I were on land. And when my body had much energy and emotion that needed to be released, […]
It鈥檚 About More than Eating and Not Eating: The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Eating Disorders
This past fall at 天美视频, I had the privilege of teaching two disciplines close to my heart鈥擟ritical Social Theory and Interdisciplinary Methods. As part of their work in the course, students were asked to ground their learning by choosing a concrete, contemporary issue that was important to them and to which they could […]
Hope
Hope is building a house that she imagines will be a home. She didn鈥檛 plan to build, there was the hope that maybe she could inherit the family home, the one that鈥檚 been passed down through generations. But the thing is…the home is older and wearier and rotting out. There are deep cracks in the […]
ICYMI: 2019 at 天美视频
This past year marked many changes within 天美视频, and we are ever grateful for those who walked alongside us in 2019. Before jumping headlong into 2020, we spent some time remembering the past year, revisiting the many milestones we celebrated together as a community. In February, 天美视频, The Allender Center, and […]
Embodying Jesus Christ in Our Relationships
Today marks the fourth and final Sunday in Advent鈥攖he season in the Church calendar where we wait, with great hope and anticipation, for the coming of Jesus to earth, both as fully God and fully human. To close our Advent series, President McNeil calls us to remember the importance of embodying Jesus Christ in our […]
A Very, Very 天美视频 Christmas
鈥楾was the week before Christmas and all through the school . . .鈥 Our staff and faculty participated in the second annual Office Decorating Competition, decking the halls of the school in festive colors and twinkling lights. From a 天美视频 spin on It鈥檚 a Charlie Brown Christmas to an interactive scavenger hunt, departments had […]
Mary’s Song Overcomes
Dear Mary, mother of Jesus, I don鈥檛 have a song this morning. No new news and nothing notable to think on beyond your song, Mary. The angel Gabriel visited you to announce a birth and I am sure you could have handled any announcement, but it wasn鈥檛 any announcement, and it would require you to […]
Welcoming Winter
There鈥檚 been a recent infusion of more showers, more gray, more chill into the weather. These herald Winter, in Seattle and in another academic year at the 天美视频. It鈥檚 a change in the climatic and emotional seasons provoking melancholy for many of us. Yet the perennial atmospheric dreariness 鈥 or the disruption and doom […]
The Gift of Holy Uncertainty
Today marks the third Sunday in Advent鈥攖he season in the Church calendar where we wait, with great hope and anticipation, for the coming of Jesus to earth, both as fully God and fully human. We are grateful for the words of Dr. J.P. Kang, who provides us a renewed lens through which to see our […]
The Practice of Waiting
When is the last time you truly felt that God was present with you? Immanuel God with us, Where are you now? Immanuel Our God with us, Be here somehow This is the chorus to Jason Morant鈥檚 contribution to the Liturgists鈥 Advent album, A Light, and every year when I listen to it I am […]
5th Annual Symposia Videos: Part Two
A few months ago, the school gathered in a form of a 鈥渉omecoming鈥 to hear our alumni present on flourishing at our fifth annual Symposia. This year the theme centered around what it means to truly flourish. Today, we鈥檙e sharing the second half of their presentations, each inviting us to pause and reflect on the […]
Christmastime in Seattle
With more people than ever before from out of town, fewer and fewer are aware of the spectacular sights and sounds Seattle has to offer all throughout the month of December. Here you鈥檒l find a list of some of our favorite Christmas activities both in and outside of Seattle. Some are within walking distance of […]