A Black History Month Reading List
For Black History Month, we asked faculty, staff, and students to weigh in on texts by Black authors to inspire our reading and learning throughout the year.
For Black History Month, we asked faculty, staff, and students to weigh in on texts by Black authors to inspire our reading and learning throughout the year.
Kellye Kuh explores cultural messages about white single women, and how the stereotype of the “basic” woman is formed by the fear of mystery and eroticism.
Our profound need for connection is enduring—it’s what makes us human, and it is all too often exploited and turned into a shallow fantasy.
With Oscar season underway, Dr. Craig Detweiler rounds up his top films of 2018, from the scathingly satirical to the gently human.
Danielle Castillejo writes about a recent shift on the “trash run” at a local shelter for sexually exploited individuals.
Kristen Gilfillan presents her powerful talk from Symposia 2018 on diet culture, body oppression, and “A Life-giving Vision of Fat Bodies in the Church.”
Luke Wilson writes that the ways we give and receive a gift has much to say about our relationship with the land and people around us.
Brooke Wellman shares a diptych painting inspired by the classic carol “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and the hope for glimpses of peace and light in our world.
Stephanie Johnson writes about the sacred land around us, the narrative of her family tree, and the complexity of the gifts we hold at Thanksgiving.
Dr. Esther Meek offers a stirring call to pursue integration in a fragmented and dis-integrated world at the 2018 Stanley Grenz Lecture Series.
In these Integrative Project videos, two MDiv students wrestle with the deep-seated realities of white supremacy in our lives, families, and churches.
Jennifer Fernandez writes that anger is not just a social or political necessity; it is in line with a long line of prophetic theological thought.