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Contending for Hope | Teesha Hadra
+ Teesha Hadra (MDiv ’20), looks at the Psalms and asks how it is possible for us to sing God’s praises and testify to God’s faithfulness in the midst of grief and hardship. This audio is a recording...
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Cedric Williams on Meaning-Making
+ Cedric Williams (PhD ’19), founder and CEO of Legacy Consulting & Research Group, talks about his layered experiences of the military, ministry, and psychology, and about his current work of...
View ArticleIssue 13: Worship and Art
The expression of worship and art is embodied, and that this embodiment affects both what we absorb as the world flows through and what we release back into it. The post Issue 13: Worship and Art...
View ArticleIssue 14: Suffering With
Every cup of suffering is full. Pain is not only universal but a basis for such Christlike empathy. “Suffering with” breaks the trends of individualism and inches us toward communal life. The post...
View ArticleIssue 15: Technology
We should consider technology a natural frontier for Christian ethics. As we ponder whether the innovations of this world have sufficient moral compass, we imagine Fuller filling a crucial gap. The...
View ArticleIssue 16: Imagining Hope
So what counts as hope in the face of “hopeless” chronic need? Caricatures of Christian hope that portray the gospel like a magic pill violate both those who suffer and the love of Jesus to heal them....
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Contending for Hope | Teesha Hadra
+ Teesha Hadra (MDiv ’20), looks at the Psalms and asks how it is possible for us to sing God’s praises and testify to God’s faithfulness in the midst of grief and hardship. This audio is a recording...
View ArticleIssue 12: Disruption
Jesus was not a quieting influence. He was an unsettling disturber of the peace. Jesus’ teaching seemed to crack open the whole universe. The post Issue 12: Disruption appeared first on Fuller Studio.
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50 First Dates
There is a resilient sweetness at the core of the characters Adam Sandler typically plays that often gets overcome by his characters’ equally powerful bouts of anger. In his most purely-comedic films...
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Palm Springs
Palm Springs is a rather standard romantic comedy featuring a now-familiar science-fiction conceit – a time loop. Yep, Nyles (Andy Samberg) is stuck living the same day over and over again....
View ArticleIntroduction – Fall 2020
In her lead essay entitled, “Worship Discipleship: The Art of Christian Peacemaking,” Tanya Riches notes that the artist has always played a significant role in the church’s witness and yet the arts...
View ArticleWith All your HeArt
There is an old cliché which says, “Does art actually imitate life?” Christian worship is a heartfelt response to the creator who “gives everyone life and breath and everything else” (Acts 17:25). Both...
View ArticleWider and Deeper: Ten Questions to Expand the Conversation on Worship Arts...
Michael J. Bauer, in his important work, Arts Ministry (Eerdmans, 2013), describes how different streams of the Christian tradition have employed the arts in worship and ministry. The Roman Catholics,...
View ArticleDiscipleship Music’s Formative Effect
Tanya Riches raises important questions concerning the presence or absence of interfaith dialogue and peace-making (advocating for and pursuit of non-violent conflict resolution) efforts in Pentecostal...
View ArticleThe Art of Christian Peacemaking
The author Tanya Riches observes that, “The artist has always played a significant role in the church’s witness. Throughout time icons and images, symphonies and overtures have inspired and edified...
View ArticleWhat is an Aesthetic Experience and How is it Measured?
Tanya Riches is engaged in an important project, and from her place in the Hillsong worship movement, she is the right person to pursue it. She wants to know: To what extent can exposure to the arts,...
View ArticleWorship Discipleship: The Art of Christian Peacemaking
It is an unlikely list of cities now linked by random acts of religious hate: Colombo, Sri Lanka; Christchurch, New Zealand; Manchester, U.K.; Charleston, South Carolina; Berlin, Germany; Melbourne,...
View ArticleThe Counter World and the Act of Worship
As a lecturer and colleague of Tanya Riches I was grateful for the chance to read her article Worship Discipleship. The role of music in shaping a congregation, both affectively and through lyrical...
View ArticleIssue 17: Place
In our urbanizing, globalizing, and digital world, connection in virtual spaces has increasingly taken precedence over connections in specific geographic locations. Yet, Jesus came to us as a human...
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Bad Hair
If a PhD dissertation on the beauty standards placed on black women in the 80s could keep you laughing while smacking you, it would be this movie. I say dissertation because the skillful cultural...
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