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Everyday I’m Pastorin’

Everyday I’m Pastorin’ Interview by Tanya Riches Editor’s Note: EverydayImPastorin is a Tumblr site that has been making the rounds at seminaries across the country. Very much like TheologyRyanGosling, it serves the func...
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Science + Tech
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Design as an Opportunity for Enacted Hospitality

Design as an Opportunity for Enacted Hospitality User Experience Principles for the Web and for Ministry By Matt Lumpkin any systems are designed to make things easier for either:   a. the computers that run them b. the pe...
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Jean Bethke Elshtain

By Grayson Carter and Glen Stassen t is a great pleasure to welcome Jean Bethke Elshtain as the 2013 Payton Lecturer at Fuller Seminary. Her lecture series, entitled “Ethics in Troubled Times,” will be held on January 30th ...
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Risking Prayer

By Aline Gram ne Sunday a few weeks ago I was asked to jump in—at the very last minute—as a Sunday school teacher for a kids’ after-church program that met in an empty corner of our church basement. Curriculum-less and w...
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Daily Prayer: A Frame For Life and Love

By Kathleen Scott-Goldingay everal times a day my husband John and I say set prayers out loud together from the Book of Common Prayer. Specifically, from the Daily Devotions for Individuals and Families section, which has bits...
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A Life of Prayer

By Jenn Graffius  was at a church recently where a guest preacher began his sermon with prayer.  There is nothing strange about the act of praying before one’s sermon. However, the end of his prayer was, well, in a word…s...
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Psychology
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Eating Disorders Don’t Take The Holidays Off

By Charlotte Sandy Disclaimer: Charlotte Sandy is a student in training with the School of Psychology. She is not an expert. For more information, please utilize the resources provided online via our website, thesemi.org or spe...
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Social Justice
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LOST: A Sense of Justice

by Abigail and Jacob Cook Confession: Jacob and I are fans of the TV series Lost. It may seem like we’re late to the party, but we only began watching the show after discovering it on Netflix in Fall ‘10. We finished watchi...
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The Aha! Moments

By President Richard Mouw person asked me recently about what I thought of as some of the key theological “Aha!” experiences in my life as a scholar. I stumbled a bit in trying to answer, but afterward I continued to think ...
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Head and Heart in Harmony

By Elizabeth Leu wo years ago, I began a new chapter in my life titled Life in Seminary with a Christian Ethics class, and soon I found myself finishing New Testament 1 & 2, Greek, Hebrew, church history and many other cla...
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Welcome to Fuller! (A few things you should know…)

By Kevin Gonzaga s a recent grad of Fuller Theological Seminary, there were a number of things I wish I had known before I started my studies.  I decided to pass on these suggestions and considerations to the incoming class of...
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Social Justice
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Christians Without Borders: A Christian Call to Denaturalize

Christians Without Borders: A Christian Call to Denaturalize By Tommy Givens mong the crucial tasks of Christian witness is the denaturalization of borders. When certain persons or communities of Los Angeles (and many other pla...
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Five for Fuller

Five for Fuller With Cynthia Glass So, Cynthia, you didn’t get enough of Fuller the first go-round? What made you decide to come back after graduating? Actually…I am as surprised as anyone that I am staying at Fuller! I...
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The Journey of Rail Travel

The Journey of Rail Travel  By Samantha Curley hirty minutes in, suppressing the heavy sigh that signifies boredom building deep within my chest, I already began to feel antsy and claustrophobic. Only one hundred more half ho...
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Relative Objectivism

Relative Objectivism by Richard Mouw ecently I read yet another commentary by a cultural conservative complaining about the widespread relativism of our day. As a cultural conservative of sorts myself, I had some sympathy for t...
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Social Justice at home…not just abroad

Social Justice at home…not just abroad By Zheng Yi recently read an interesting story on Fuller’s website, in the news section. The article spoke about the recent Asian night market in Pasadena (the original article can be ...
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Reimagining the Seminary Experience

Reimagining the Seminary Experience By Joel Harrison I have to begin by overstating the humility with which I’ve tried to write about the future of seminary. Like writing about the future of anything, we have to first say, ...
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Feminist Theology
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Finding My Voice… Again

Finding My Voice… Again By Allison Ash My grandmother had been happily married for nine years when her husband contracted polio – he died seven days later. So in 1946 my grandmother found herself the mother of a three, five...
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Thus Sayeth The Lord

Thus Sayeth The Lord Tamisha Tyler “This is not the will of God for you. This is diabolical.” Those were the last words that my former pastor said to me when I told him I was leaving the church. He said more. Much more. But...
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Helping Others In A Selfish Season

Helping Others In A Selfish Season By Shelton Oakley Hersey and Stephanie Struck ith Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner, we have an unimaginable number of options when it comes to our purchases. But what we buy...
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Theology
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Second Reformation and Safe Places

Second Reformation and Safe Places By Randall Frederick We can no longer deny, John Shore of The Huffington Post writes, that “Christianity really is in the middle of a second Reformation.” The issue of sexuality, both hete...
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Jacob’s Ladder

Jacob’s Ladder By Randall Frederick r. Mouw’s article suggests that whatever our background and worldview, we may still glean ideas from listening to or reading heretics. Paternally, he believes we are mature students of cu...
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Theology On Tap. (No. 15) Yardstick

Ten years ago I found out that I had high-grade spit-gland cancer and was given three months to live.  So I started saying goodbyes and thank you’s, telling people things I would never have told them otherwise.  And then, I...
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You Know, Can We All Get Along?

You Know, Can We All Get Along? By Grayson Carter Heresy. The word doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue these days. In our tolerant and modern society, the very concept of heresy appears foreign to some Christians as “dark...
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Cultivating a Few Favorite Heretics

Cultivating a Few Favorite Heretics By Richard Mouw Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of my favorite heretics. I have a small group of heretics that I confer with occasionally. Most of them are long gone, so I have to communicate with...
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