Vulnerability and Risk
As he works to advocate for the autistic community, Cameron Keirnes learns to confront cultural assumptions and move toward mutual vulnerability.
Response Magazine
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23rd September 2025
Getting better with every mile of the journey
For JAMIE CRESPO ’12, completing the renowned New York City Marathon didn’t become entirely real until the sign for Central Park came into view. By that point, she had run across all five boroughs of the city and had less than two miles to go.
Sojourners
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10th May 2023
Are Mother’s Day Church Services Doing More Harm Than Good?
On Mother’s Day in many congregations across the U.S., churches will hand out flowers, host breakfast and tea, or offer applause for women in attendance.
Patheos
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4th June 2023
How My Cat Is Saving Jimmy Carter’s Life (And Mine)
My husband and I have two cats. First, there’s Fig: a fearless, tailless, 22-toed wonder who lives to be outside, rain or shine.
FULLER Magazine
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16th June 2021
One Hand on the Wheel, the Other on the Till
From offices to orchards, Paul Gendron and his team of chaplains offer care to thousands in their various places of work.
Patheos
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20th April 2023
Anne Lamott’s Shawl, the Hemorrhaging Woman, and a Seriously Trippy Netflix Series
In the first few days of 2023, I compiled a list of my accomplishments from the preceding year.
FULLER Magazine
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18th February 2022
Bridges Between
As she leans into her own identities as a psychologist, a Christian, and a Black woman, Christin Fort serves communities at the overlapping intersections of faith, research, and identity.
Patheos
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3rd May 2023
Prophets on the Red Carpet: The 2023 Met Gala
Although the Met Gala is an annual charity event for New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, it’s about much more than mere fundraising.
Patheos
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17th November 2023
Abiding by Bowling: The Big Lebowski and Ecclesiastes
By examining the elements of narrative depicted in the film’s opening scenes as well as the motifs throughout, I will unpack the power of The Big Lebowski, showing how it effectively translates the message of Ecclesiastes into postmodern American speak.
Fuller Theological Seminary
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11th June 2020
Painting the Absolute: An Exploration of Sexual Identity in Alejandro Morales’s Story "Prickles" and the Christian Tradition
Several years ago, I attended an artist talk in a church-turned-“multidisciplinary-arts-venue” in Leeds, United Kingdom. As part of the series called “Faith in Art,” the befitting Methodist-minister-turned-painter Richard Stott prefaced his exhibition on censorship by sharing personal testimony.
Patheos
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26th April 2023
The Biblical Wisdom Of Jane Fonda
Like the iconic character Moira Rose, my favorite season is “Awards,” so you’ll likely find me perched on my parents’ sofa during every notable award show (because, you know, cable).
SPU Stories
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31st August 2021
Mental health resources for SPU students
Experts are using terms such as “crisis” and “epidemic” to characterize the steep rise in mental health issues they are seeing among college students in recent years.
Women Experiencing Faith
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3rd October 2018
Women Experiencing Faith
Women Experiencing Faith is filled with intimate reflections and personal stories. Many aren’t happy, but real life isn’t always happy. Families, friends, spouses, and the church often fail—especially for women. The fifty contributors to this book ask hard questions and elicit critical thinking.
Fuller Theological Seminary
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7th December 2019
Children and the Kingdom in Mark and the Roman World
Throughout art history, children have not been depicted realistically. Rather, as is the case in classical Greek art, children were largely depicted as miniature adults, toting mature bodily proportions that failed to match the chubby figures and facial features of live infants and children.
Good Letters
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6th September 2017
The Tattoo Monologues
Getting a tattoo is not only about deciding what to etch onto one’s body forever, but also about deciding what brief monologue will be uttered any time someone points to the ink and asks: “What does it mean?”
10th January 2025
About Today
A melodramatic but sweet piece I wrote back in college for a fiction class.
