Setting Aside Our Privilege | Steve Yamaguchi
+ Steve Yamaguchi, assistant professor of pastoral theology and chaplain, reflects on his Lenten practice of visiting Alcoholic Anonymous meetings, surrendering privilege, and a famous scene in Les...
View ArticleRelational Integration and Psychotherapy: A Differentiation-Based Approach |...
+ Steven Sandage, the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion at Boston University, introduces a relational model to the integration of psychology and theology and applies it...
View ArticlePublic Discipleship on Race, Politics, and Justice
“How can we say that we know ourselves without understanding our context? To say that being a Christian and being Asian have nothing to do with one another goes against how we have been created in our...
View ArticleShalom Justice
Sitting in a crowded airport waiting for a delayed plane, I tuned in to a heated debate raging on the television just above my head. I heard someone assert: “Violence is a natural reaction for people...
View ArticleIn Transit
Aaron Moore’s books seem so out of place at the Victor Valley Transit Authority that his coworkers renamed his office “the library.” Books on philosophy and “the beauty of the infinite” lean next to...
View ArticleEscaping a False Gospel: On Changing Stories
A Competing Gospel There is a message of salvation that is proclaimed here and around the world. This salvation message is broadcast as “good news.” This announcement is crafted in numerous ways,...
View ArticleDavid Eubank on War Zone Ministry
+ David Eubank (MDiv ’95), director and founder of Free Burma Rangers, shares stories from his years of ministry in war zones in Burma and Mosul, reflects on being “an ambassador for Jesus” while...
View ArticleWho Is the God Who Is With Us? | Mark Labberton
+ Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Seminary, preaches on Isaiah 43:1-7, reflecting on today’s political and social anxieties, the discipline of looking for God in the midst of suffering, and those...
View ArticleDiversity and Justice in Healing | Steven Sandage
+ Steven Sandage, the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion at Boston University, lectures on the complex relationships among theology, racism and social hierarchies, and the...
View ArticleMary’s Calling, Our Calling | Laura Harbert
+ Laura Harbert, affiliate professor of clinical psychology, preaches on Luke 4:18-19, reflecting on Mary’s joy in the midst of unjust social contexts and our calling to help gestate a “place of...
View ArticleKerygmatic Peacebuilding as the Practice of Biblical Salam
CURRENT PEACEBUILDING PRACTICES IN THE MIDDLE EAST In our current world, it is usually assumed that those holding a position of power have the responsibility to call conflicting parties to the...
View ArticleThe End Of The World As She Knew It
Rick Dunkerly was a free spirit. He was an idealist and an agitator. He wrote poems and letters to the editor. He rescued Collies and rooted for the underdog. He taught Bible studies at his church and...
View ArticlePete Docter on Storytelling
+ Pixar’s Pete Docter, director of the animated films Monsters, Inc., Up, and Inside Out, speaks with Mark Labberton about creating stories in community, the creative process, and more. For more on...
View ArticleBehold The Dreamer | Estrelda Alexander
+ Estrelda Alexander, president of William Seymour College, preaches on the role of dreams in spiritual formation, the paradox of receiving visions from God, and developing strategies to enact them....
View ArticleIntroduction: Young People
Who am I? Where do I fit? What difference do I make? As in previous eras, today’s young people navigate these three key developmental questions. The first is a question about identity. The second is a...
View ArticleA Unique Season of Growth
There’s a unique season of growing toward adulthood that happens in the years between 11 and 25—as any parent of teenagers will attest. The way we frame our experiences during that time sets the stage...
View ArticleBiblical Interpretation in the Global-Indian Context
In the globalized context of the early 21st century, with a world characterized by integration and convergence, new modes of biblical interpretation are needed.1 Interpreting Christian Scripture in the...
View ArticleVoices on Prayer
“God’s presence pervades the universe, and that presence is personal. God loves each of us all the time. The problem has to do with us and our ability to quell the noise that goes on constantly in our...
View ArticleLetter From the President: Reading the Scriptures from My Point of View
My life has been changed by “reading the Bible with the dead,” most notably through historical theology professor John Thompson’s provocative book by that title. My life has also been profoundly shaped...
View ArticleLimping Toward Sunrise
I am sitting in what could be the waiting room of any neurosurgeon’s office in the country. Trying to look “normal” and to distract myself from the searing pain in my body, I scan the room. In one...
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