By Milligan Burroughs I have been so excited to start my first semester at McAfee School of Theology. Throughout my life, I have witnessed multiple people I love and look up to attend McAfee, and when I was in high school it was my dream to finally attend. So far, the first semester I spent … Continue reading
By Hannah Moody It took me a while to understand that life goes on during a pandemic. Birds still chirp. Rain still falls. Leaves still turn. We still have responsibilities whether it’s school, work, family life; we still have our obligations to do. So why can it be so hard to realize this? With a … Continue reading
By Kristan Pitts Advent is a season of paradox. It’s a season where we hold in tension the celebration of the birth of Christ and the anticipation of Christ’s second coming. 2020 has been an exercise of what it means to exist in tension. We have experienced a pandemic, increased visibility of structural injustice, polarizing political … Continue reading
I recently found myself reading an article by Walter Brueggemann, The Costly Loss of Lament. The article is compelling. Brueggeman points out that our modern church, in turning away from laments, has experienced a loss of genuine covenant interaction(:62). This seems to hit home in the reality of the faith tradition I have grown up in. This loss, leads to … Continue reading
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