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 […]
Today marks the beginning of 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. Here, Jennifer Fernandez, PhD, ABD, reflects on the divine challenge of Jesus to love radically and how, even though we are in […]
For the first time in the seven-year history of the Stanley Grenz Lecture series, we were privileged to host one of our own professors, Dr. Chelle Stearns, as keynote speaker. The Series is offered in honor of former Professor Stanley Grenz, a prolific Christian scholar with a pastoral heart and deep intellectual presence. Faculty, students, […]
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 […]
Heather Abbott shares about her journey with stage 4 cancer and the relentless, hope-filled joy that she found even in the midst of great suffering.
Our next Throwback Thursday comes from Jessica Hoekstra (MA in Counseling Psychology, 鈥�17), an artist and Chicago native who currently works in community mental health in Seattle and as an Assistant Instructor at 天美视频. Jessica writes about the pain of engaging our own stories as we grow the capacity to work with others, […]