Share a little bit with us about who you are. Where are you from? What do you like to do for fun? What do you aspire toward in life? Tell us anything you’d like to share about your life:
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Get to know Tan
Share a little bit with us about who you are. Where are you from? What do you like to do for fun? What do you aspire toward in life? Tell us anything you’d like to share about your life:
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Getting to know Elise
Share a little bit with us about who you are. Where are you from? What do you like to do for fun? What do you aspire toward in life? Tell us anything you’d like to share about your life:
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Get to Know Rick
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What would Jesus Look Like at the University of Washington?
As a believer in Jesus this is an exciting question to consider, and truly one that anyone who claims to follow Jesus ought to consider in their own personal context.
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Is there anything we associate more with being human than suffering? Our ability to feel, and yes hurt, is one of the things that make us most human. There is no denying we live in a broken, painful world. We all experience it: mental illness, relationship struggles, the death of family and friends. Faith is a struggle to understand God and continue to trust him in the midst of this suffering.
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There’s a very simple story told in the first chapter of John’s gospel that I really have come to appreciate. Within the narrative we read of John the Baptist, who is this very bold outspoken follower of God.
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It’s a crazy time in American politics. It seems like the political divide is increasingly becoming entrenched. If you need any evidence for this (which you likely don’t), just look up more information about the Trump impeachment inquiry! We’re apparently in the middle of a so called “culture war” that doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon.
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A major challenge we face in interpreting the Bible the radically different worldview than our current 21st century American worldview. One of the places where this is most pronounced is in the narratives where Jesus heals the blind, makes the lame walk, and expels demons.
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A UW student recently asked this question for us to discuss: Why are there so many different Christian groups on campus? Aren’t we all supposed to believe the same thing? It’s a great question, but certainly not an easy one to answer.
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Welcome back!
Our new blog series for the year will follow our Wednesday night Engage topics again. The topic for this year is: Your biggest questions about life, faith, and Jesus. We’ve gotten ideas from students about the questions they wrestle with in these areas and will write blogs on them as we go through the series.
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In a recent survey, 86 percent of people said there is a leadership crisisin the world today. If you Google “leadership crisis” you’ll find hundreds of articles and books on the lack of leadership in all kinds of areas. It extends to global politics, the business world, and even to church leadership.
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Does faith matter? Practically, would it make a difference in my life? For most people, the answer to this question is simply: no. Faith is wishful thinking at best, believing harmful fairy tales at worst. It’s wiser to remain open, choosing not to make any kind of affiliation or definitive statement. Not committing protects us from being wrong in an ultimate sense, while also not changing anything in present. We can continue to be the master of our own lives like everyone else. Why add faith?
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I can remember the first time I seriously considered that life had no meaning. In my freshman psychology class, we learned about Sigmund Freud’s assertion that belief in God is nothing more than a child’s projection of a loving parent onto a scary world. We need to believe in God, so we can feel safe. It led me down a road of thinking: if God is a projection, what else is nothing more than my own subjective needs.
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INTP. 5-The Investigator. Influencing. Gryffindor house?
You’ve probably taken at least one personality test for school, a job, or just for fun. Popular personality tests are mainstays of the business world like the Myer’s-Briggs and the DISC Assessment. Others, like the Enneagram, are more spiritual in nature and are gaining new popularity. You can find personality tests for everything from your Hogwarts House to what The Office character you are.
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This is the second installment in our discussion on mental health. Last week’s article was: three things you need to know. Mental health can be a complicated, confusing topic. Hopefully you found that helpful in understanding some of the basics. This week I wanted to share some thoughts on how get better. Much of the dialogue around mental health actually focuses on mental illness, when things go wrong psychologically or emotionally. We want to move beyond problems to discuss how we pursue health.
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those experiencing homelessness are mentally ill. Young men who commit school shootings are mentally ill. We hear the next generation is more mentally ill than previous generations. We fear it. Then again, we also experience it ourselves, so we wonder what that means about us.
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We live in a weird contradiction toward physical health. On one hand, we have more weight issues and physical ailments than ever before because we don’t take care of our bodies. One the other, we idolize our physical health as a way to vainly find beauty. It’s a pursuit of unattainable levels skinniness or muscle growth. Oftentimes, Christian communities add another layer to the problem due to over emphasize on the “spiritual” without understanding that our physical bodies are also intended and designed for spiritual use.
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We are a people built for relationships. Whether those relationships come in the form of Facebook friends, Instagram followers, cups of coffee, Trivia Nights with friends, or taking dirty laundry to our parents houses on the weekends, our human nature is wrapped in an undeniable need for meaningful relationship.
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We live in a sex obsessed society. The media bombards us with sexual messages—music, television, magazines, even billboards on buses. Sex sells everything from beauty products to hamburgers. No place is this more true than the proliferation of internet pornography. Pornography has become so common place that Playboy, the company that started the pornography “sexual revolution,” has begun clothing women again to sell magazines.
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