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Our Longing for Jesus
Advent is the season when we feel how desperately we long for Jesus’ coming into our world today. It is a time of searing honesty, of vehement lament, of deep cries, and hopeful longing.
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When Words Fail
When we midwife one another through the painful moments we know something more of God’s faithful presence and promise. When we rage, when we feel alone, when we ride into the heart of pain, when words fail, the Spirit sighs—and in all of these: God.
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Teaching Theology with Three Commitments
In this brief video from 2018, Dr. Jennifer W. Davidson talks about three commitments she brings to the classroom as a theology professor. First, theology is a matter of life and death. Second, seminary students enter the classroom as theologians already, so the classroom experience is about helping students grow more fully into that identity.…
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Listening for God in Unlikely Places
With the words of the psalm still singing inside me, I marveled at this often unseen part of creation, moving so slowly and inefficiently (back-and-forth and side-to-side as it changed direction, sensing some tiny barrier of a stick or redwood cone in its way), going positively nowhere over the fifteen minutes I watched it moving.…
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Love, Teaching, and Vulnerability
Enjoyment is one of the key intangible ingredients to fostering love in the classroom. There is a sense of playfulness in enjoyment. And there is also a sense of splendid possibility. Enjoyment and eros go hand in hand. They both have to do with knowing, and searching, and being known.