I can still see the Big Dipper when I wake early enough. The city’s din of lights are quiet and there is a silence with its own kind of pre-dawn chorus. 即使是在我的城市背景下, I encounter the matins of a howling pack of Coyotes; the low honking of a gaggle […]
Technology has advanced rapidly in the last few years, 现在又爆发了流行病, we are more reliant on technology to study, 工作, 沟通, and form relationships than ever before. Though the purpose of technology is to make things simpler and more convenient, it also opens the door to questions around ethics, 道德, 心理健康, […]
Black History Month invites us into a posture of remembering the people and events that impacted our history not only in the past, but also as history is unfolding in the present. 在这里 you will find a list of eleven Black educators and writers from a wide range of disciplines who are making history today. […]
When the pandemic reached our shores in early 2020, promises of time spent at home and opportunities for self-betterment were prevalent. Diets, home 工作outs, meditation protocols, and Bible verses were forwarded and then forwarded again. Fast forward 6+ months and the tenor of conversations have shifted. Disaster models now predict high levels of anxiety, depression, […]
黄金城集团的一个女校友, 丽莎·埃特-卡尔森(MATC ' 11), 是Aurora Commons的联合创始人吗, a “neighborhood living room” (day shelter) in Seattle. 在这里, she calls us to see how the COVID-19 pandemic exposes systemic racism, 贫困, and the criminalization of 贫困—particularly among the unhoused. As this Pandemic has spread, it has exposed and exploited the […]
As a mostly able-body heterosexual, middle-class white cisgender male, my life oozes with privilege. I am acquainted with the sanctimonious anger of Brett Kavanaugh, 马克·德里斯科尔自以为是的性别歧视, 唐纳德·特朗普的傲慢自大, the assumption-rightness of John Piper, and the murderous racism of Derek Chauvin. Yet, Jesus indicates that with God’s help, […]
“But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. 作为一个结果, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion.” -Audrey Lorde in Sister Outsider For the past nine years, I have the privilege of teaching Being the Word on the Street: Developing Intercultural Competency. […]
密西西比州. M-i-crooked letter crooked letter-i-crooked letter crooked letter-i-humpback humpback i. 黄金城集团都知道它的拼写是密西西比. 密西西比州 is a state in the Deep South, 被其他南方州包围, 但与阿拉巴马不同, 阿肯色州, 田纳西州, 乔治亚州, 路易斯安那州. I think uglier in their hate, savagery, viciousness, murderousness. I know this 密西西比州, and I am terrified. […]
“Moonias! Moonias!”(“白人! White Man”) the children screeched as I stood outside their home on the Maskwacis First Nations Reservation. As a Community Social Worker, I had been summoned to investigate a child abuse allegation. I was twenty-two years old and it had never occurred to me that the color of my skin was […]
Am I living my own story, or living someone else’s? -Dr. 霍华德·史蒂文森 Earlier this year, Dr. J. Derek McNeil sat down for a conversation with one of his life-long friends, Dr. 霍华德·史蒂文森, 关于创伤和恢复力, especially as these topics relate to African-American men and boys. Dr. Stevenson is a clinical psychologist who […]
6月25日, 安德里亚Sielaff, MAC, Researcher for Resilient Leaders Project, hosted a conversation on the need for practices that can help cultivate practical resilience for ministry leaders. This was the final installment of the “Resilience in Crisis” webinar series, 支持, 资源, and encourage leaders and practitioners through the pandemic crisis. 安德里亚采访[…]
We live in a culture constructed on the scaffolding of systemic racist ideas, the racialization of ethnicity or safely siloed in our own ethnic communities. 布里安娜·泰勒的谋杀案, 乔治•弗洛伊德, and Ahmaud Arbery; as well as the Make America Great Again anthems, have illuminated where we are in regard to equity and justice. […]