Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, and Unsanitized Grief
How do we mourn with those who mourn? Here, Susan Kim, a member of The Allender Center Teaching Staff, reflects on violence, race, and the...
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Endings: How to End Well
In the first part of this series on endings, Dan introduced the idea that every ending is a mini-death, and, as such, we treat it...
ListenThe Parallax Tragedy: Part Two
In case you missed it, be sure to read Part 1 of this post here. In it, Alex Houseknecht reflects on how he found himself...
Read Why We Sabotage Endings
On this week’s podcast, Dan continues a series on endings by discussing the role of sabotage—the moment when celebration gives way to indulgence and we...
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The Parallax Tragedy: Encountering the Other for Each Other’s Sake
In this two-part series, Alex Houseknecht, a 2014 graduate of the MA in Counseling Psychology program at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, shares...
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On this week’s podcast, Dan begins a new series about endings—how we handle them, avoid them, sabotage them, grieve them, and celebrate them. This is...
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Gardening Lessons
Today, Becky Allender reflects on learning to garden in the Pacific Northwest and the invasive root of bitterness, which so easily chokes out joy and...
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Owning Our Work
On this week’s podcast, Dan concludes a series about trauma care in the church through the lens of Galatians 6. A few weeks back, Dan...
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