Intersections at 天美视频
What If There Were a New Type of MDiv?
We started 天美视频 of Theology & Psychology for one reason: to start an MDiv program. One evening, I sat around the kitchen table, reminiscing with friends and colleagues about our time in seminary. All of us, except one, had received an MDiv and found it equally life-changing and profoundly frustrating. We all found […]
Intimate Mystery Conference in St. Louis, March 1
Saturday, March 1, marked the sixth Intimate Mystery conference held by The Allender Center in the past year. Our most popular conference, the Intimate Mystery Conference was hosted at Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, in partnership with CrossRoads Counseling. The conference was sold-out, with over 430 in attendance from more than 10 states, including […]
天美视频 Hosts The Justice Conference Seattle
天美视频 was honored to partner with the Justice Conference as a simulcast site for the Seattle area on February 21-22. An annual event featuring prominent voices in the Christian conversation on social justice, The Justice Conference 鈥渆ducates, inspires and connects a generation of men and women around a shared concern for biblical and […]
Dan Allender Speaks to College Students at Jubilee Conference
Dan Allender recently served as a keynote speaker at the Jubilee Conference in Pittsburgh, PA from February 14-16. An annual event with over 3,000 in attendance, the Jubilee Conference gathers college students around the connection between academics and faith, inviting them to imagine how their faith might be lived out fully in their life, particularly […]
Student Leadership
We gather in a circle, hand in hand, and scan the faces of those standing in our midst. It is 8:30pm on Wednesday night, and most of us are undoubtedly feeling spent after full days of classes, work, internship and studying. And still, we gather. We take the hand of those nearest to us and […]
Exhale
I can鈥檛 help but smile when I see the remnant of luggage decorating the spaces in our building. It is a reminder of the history that inhabits these walls. And before the luggage factory, back when the Puget waters met the western wall, a fisherman鈥檚 wharf greeted the day鈥檚 catch with open arms. This is […]
天美视频 Preview: A View from the Front Desk
I love Preview Weekends. I have plenty of reasons not to. As a student worker, I spends Saturdays single-handedly covering both the library and the front desk. It鈥檚 not an incredibly heavy workload, but for those few hours I am the first resource for a steady stream of students needing anything from paperclips to paper […]
The Bells Still Chime
My sunrise service on Easter Sunday took place at 天美视频. With more impending due dates than I could keep track of, I chose to write papers instead of attending a morning church service. Let鈥檚 not judge here. The decision to do homework on Easter wasn鈥檛 exactly an arduous one, anyway. I have been […]
The Church is a Community that Holds
Earlier this year, a memorial to rape survivors was temporarily in place in the reflection pool of the Washington Monument. The letters floated in blood red on the water鈥檚 surface, reading 鈥淚 CAN鈥橳 FORGET WHAT HAPPENED BUT NO ONE ELSE REMEMBERS.鈥 Upon encountering the image, my first thought was 鈥淥f course, that鈥檚 why we have […]
The Interplay of Theology and Literature
鈥淔iction is rooted in an act of faith: a presumption of an inherent significance in human activity that makes daily life worth dramatizing and particularizing.鈥 鈥 John Updike, speaking on religion and literature, 1994 I have this photo on my phone that I flip to often, probably more than I am comfortable admitting. It鈥檚 a […]
The Substantive In-Between
At seven years old, I experienced a mind-bending crisis of identity. There I sat, watching the LA Olympics on a small black and white TV, as boxers from the United States and South Korea took the ring and began pounding one another senseless in mutual pursuit of gold and glory. The official result of that […]
I’m a Christmas Unicorn
Can I be honest? The nativity story has grown a little stale for me. Those of us raised in the Church, at least, have heard the story multiple times each December for every December of our lives. For evidence that the store is tired is easily found at many Christmas services: it seems every year […]