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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
After robust discourse and prayerful discernment, the Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to appoint Dr. J. Derek McNeil as President of 天美视频 of Theology & Psychology. Dr. McNeil was appointed as Provost in 2018 and stepped into the role of Acting President in February 2019. 鈥淒r. McNeil brings a rich background in […]
鈥淚 love it when students take poetry and art and it almost begins to dance because they connect it to ideas that are happening in the classroom. Those are magical moments for me […] We鈥檙e doing all of this through transforming relationships. It鈥檚 more than just a mission statement鈥攊t’s the place where imagination happens. This […]
An Introduction by Dr. Kj Swanson: Every other year, 天美视频 offers the course SFD (Spiritual Formation & Direction) 523 Spirituality & the Arts and with each offering, the instructor has focused on a particular form of art as a way to explore spiritual practices and how the arts can inform and sustain spiritual […]
An Introduction from Dr. Kj Swanson: Every other year the 天美视频 offers the course SFD (Spiritual Formation & Direction) 523 Spirituality & the Arts and with each offering, the instructor has focused on a particular form of art as a way to explore spiritual practices and how the arts can inform and sustain spiritual […]
鈥淲hat are you reading?鈥� It鈥檚 a question often heard within the walls of many learning institutions, yet the answer that follows is typically in regards to a textbook or a predetermined selection of pages for a class. Today, we鈥檇 like to help you expand your reading list鈥攚hether you鈥檙e a student, life-long learner, or someone who […]
As we welcomed a new cohort of students to our community, Dr. J. Derek McNeil called upon these new and returning learners to deeply consider the question: How can you come to graduate school and serve? Watch Dr. J. Derek McNeil鈥檚 address to our incoming cohort: 鈥渢ext.soul.culture is a vehicle. The purpose clause is to […]
Often we hear calls for peace and reconciliation following an act of racism that overlook the fact that our culture is, in many ways, sinking back into one with a deep fear of the other. A culture that fears difference, that fuels white supremacy by staying silent while messages of oppression are spoken by those […]
Shauna Gauthier hosts a conversation with Annie Mesaros about Christianity鈥檚 impact on American politics, and about Annie鈥檚 theological podcast God Help Us.