Shifting the Power
Priscilla Santos (MAICS ’12) remembers exactly where she was when she first heard about the reality of human trafficking. Sitting in church in Gainesville, Florida, she listened as her pastor told the...
View ArticleIn the Room with Phil Chen and Jaeson Ma
+ Fuller Alumni Phil Chen, decentralized chief officer at HTC, and Jaeson Ma, serial entrepreneur, speak with the Fuller community about innovations in technology and how ethics, theology, and...
View ArticleParenting in Today’s Digital Playground
If you happen to be in your 40s as we are, you might remember your first Walkman. The very word evokes the memory of riding a school bus to a skating rink, cranking up Bon Jovi through the foam-padded...
View ArticleThe World in a Room
After months of online discussions and a retreat in Colorado, the 38th cohort of the MA in Global Leadership program was about to meet in Pasadena for two weeks of class—their last time to be together...
View ArticleConversations with Paul Schrader
“Is there a connection between the world I was living in and the world I had come from? . . . A link between a sacred past and a profane present? Between the life of the soul and the commercial life...
View ArticleA Conversation with Paul Schrader on First Reformed
+ Award-winning screenwriter and director Paul Schrader discusses crises of faith, trauma, and spirituality in film with Kutter Callaway, assistant professor of theology and culture, and Justin Chang,...
View ArticleRethinking Transcendental Style in Film
+ Award-winning screenwriter and director Paul Schrader revisits his landmark book “Transcendental Style in Film” and lectures on the intersections of spirituality, cinema, and time. The lecture was...
View ArticleAccessibility and Technology as Hospitality
Access Services at Fuller is an office tasked with making “accommodations” in our courses and programs to make them accessible to students with disabilities, ongoing medical conditions, or temporary...
View ArticleVoices on Identity
“Humans are not defined in essential but relational terms. That is, unlike the philosophical stream running from Plato to Descartes and into the present, Scripture is not concerned with defining human...
View ArticleNatural-Born Cyborgs: Can Technology Supersize Human Life?
Words like “cyborg” and “supersizing” do not seem relevant to a discussion of Christian life; they seem to belong to some other domain of discourse. Consideration of the characteristics of people,...
View ArticleA God-Drenched Life | Mark Labberton
+ Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Seminary, addresses new students during Fuller’s Welcome Week, preaching about what it means to choose the life-giving way of God. This audio is a recording from...
View ArticleArt in Place
In situ: from the Latin, meaning “in place.” In-situ is also the name for the Hong Kong-based artist residency founded and run by Fuller alumnus John Lui (MAT ’11). Established in the center of Hong...
View ArticleTheology for a New Day
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen (MAT ’89), professor of systematic theology, has been a member of Fuller’s faculty since 2000. In 2017, he completed a monumental five-volume project, A Constructive Christian...
View ArticleHigh Tech/High Touch: Sharing, Expressing, and Crafting Wisdom for Our Age
More than 30 years ago, John Naisbitt wrote that high tech could only be embraced when there was an outside, counterbalancing, high touch response.1 Naisbitt describes high touch as an expression of...
View ArticleTelos, Technology, and Thriving
As a faculty member in the Thrive Center in the School of Psychology at Fuller, I am often asked, “What does it mean to thrive?” The second question I am asked is “What about technology and thriving?”...
View ArticleBenediction: Oona
The Arol Burns Mall at Fuller’s Pasadena campus has long been a favorite dog-walking spot, thanks to its plentiful shade and, perhaps, abundance of squirrels to chase. But since last April, one dog...
View ArticleVoices on Hope
+ The following voices are excerpts, edited and adapted, of sermons delivered at Fuller’s All-Seminary Chapel during the 2018–19 year. Each sermon can be listened to in full through the FULLER sermons...
View ArticleJoker
Most of us do our best to avoid people like Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix). Their raw needs make us uncomfortable. We fear their loneliness and asocial behavior might be catching. We know we lack the...
View ArticleStrange Negotiations: Music As Transgression
About halfway through Brand Vedder’s upcoming documentary Strange Negotiations, David Bazan voices a simple statement that is equal parts confession, critique, and lament: “I am a son of evangelical...
View ArticleJustin Fung and Delonte Gholston on Pastoring and Peacemaking
+ Pastors Delonte Gholston (MDiv ’15) and Justin Fung (DMin ’19) speak about pastoring in Washington DC and on peacemaking amid the realities of sociopolitical violence. The post Justin Fung and...
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