Imagining Hope Fuller

ISSUE #16 | IMAGINING HOPE FULLER STORY Ezer Kang, pictured above, finds a model for embracing the other on repeated trips to a medical clinic in Dehli, India p. 12 THEOLOGY A collection of articles curated by Scott Cormode reflects on what it looks like to imagine hope in the midst of pain p. 36 VOICE The Fuller community explores the practices of rest and repentance p. 76 HOPE by Dea Jenkins Failure hits heads like swinging bridges How did I miss that? And where did Your word go? My eyes, bloodshot, peering through strained grains of finely held hope I watch it disappear like falling snow At times, disappointment does indeed crush Soul to bone my heart sinks down into my esophagus I gasp and sip hollow breaths Ready to blow, ready to blow Always Your calm voice whispering Ever gentle, ever kind To wait and to hope To hope against all hope lost To fight against all joy gone To look again Though my neck is tired from the strain and my back is twisted from the journey and my hands have wrung themselves dry Hope Hope again against all hope lost + Phoenix by Dea Jenkins. Watercolor on paper, 9" x 12", 2018. Dea Jenkins (MAT ’19, MAICS ’19) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in Pasadena. See more of Dea’s artwork and poetry on pp. 11, 74–75, and 98–99. Find more of her work at DeaJenkins.com. STORY | THEOLOGY | VOICE FULLER ISSUE #16 | IMAGINING HOPE + Reimagining Pasadena When we were kids, we used to insist that California had four seasons just like everyone else had—only ours are summer, winter, fire, and flood. CREATIVE PRODUCTION Lauralee Farrer Editor in Chief Though more true than not lately, with fires decimating much of the wild Tamara Johnston Senior Producer brushlands around us, once in awhile, fall and winter are still so sublime Joy Netanya Thompson Communications Senior Editor here that weather alone seems to merit study at Fuller’s Pasadena Katy Cook Lead Designer campus. That’s what we had for a recent chapel service on the Arol Communications Writer and Social Media Strategist Jerome Blanco Burns Mall: pristine blue sky, framed by palm trees, punctuated by the Nate Harrison Senior Photographer and Video Storyteller wild parrots of Pasadena (seriously, google it), and Chapel Director Julie CONTRIBUTORS Tai’s worship team singing “I choose to trust in Jesus” like a soundtrack Denise Louise Klitsie Principal Illustrator in the background. All senses enlivened, hope was easy to imagine. Aaron Dorsey Communications Inclusion Liaison A lovely vision was prompted for me by the solidarity of that chapel Kathryn Sangsland Project Manager service: A little freshwater brook that started in the prayer garden flowed Joanne Yoon, Sergio Zapata, and Inés Velásquez-McBryde Translation Services all the way through the mall, gracefully, as water does, along paths of Elijah Davidson Web and Digital Media Manager least resistance. It poured out from “the elbow,” down Ford Place and Becky Still Editorial Consultant up Oakland Avenue and beyond, to all our offices north and south, out to Tony Hale Cover Consultant our Houston and Arizona campuses, and farther yet to our students and learners, our alums and donors, our trustees and friends. COVER Ezer Kang, photographed by Nate Harrison The stream bubbled and it sang; it greened up everything it touched; it caused a faint cool breeze. The sound was restful and soothing; the air THEOLOGY SECTION ADVISORY BOARD carried extra oxygen and hydration, and it was nice to imagine dragging Chair Mark Labberton PhD, Clifford L. Penner Presidential Chair your fingers in it to snap water in the face of whoever you were rushing to Keon-Sang An PhD, Associate Professor of Bible and Mission Tod Bolsinger VP and Chief of Leadership Formation a meeting with. (I mean, if you’re the kind of person who would do that.) D. Scott Cormode PhD, Hugh De Pree Professor of Leadership As I’m writing this, a colleague has texted me a photo of the campus, Development green and still, regarding it as “a moment of peace.” Kurt Fredrickson PhD, Associate Dean for the DMin and Continuing We could use a moment of peace around here. To quote Bill Pannell, Education and Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen DrTheol, Professor of Systematic Theology “Have mercy!” The strip of land that cuts through the middle of Fuller’s Kara E. Powell PhD, Executive Director of Fuller Youth Institute and Pasadena campus has known many literal and figurative seasons of Associate Professor of Youth and Family Ministry winter and summer and fire and flood: seasons of thoughtful pondering, Brad D. Strawn PhD, Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor of the passionate protest, raucous music, shy introductions, earnest prayers, Integration of Psychology and Theology rented regalia, harvest-party bounce houses and child-sized ponies. It Marcus Sun VP of Global Recruitment, Admissions, Marketing, and Retention has contained the smells of Ethiopian flatbread and Mexican churros Marianne Meye Thompson PhD, Dean of the School of Theology and and Thai curry; the sights of placards and memorials, of fists raised in George Eldon Ladd Professor of New Testament protest and palms open in praise; the sounds of trees uprooted by violent Jude Tiersma Watson PhD, Associate Professor of Urban Misson winds, air whistling through ancient window casings, and breezes gently Miyoung Yoon Hammer PhD, Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy and Chair of the Department of Marriage and Family snapping a banner quoting trustee Willie Jennings: “If the incarnation Therapy teaches us anything, it’s that God cares about place.” These are evidence that streams, both seen and unseen, have SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP Mark Labberton Clifford L. Penner Presidential Chair coursed through the campus over the seven decades of our life here, Mari L. Clements Provost bringing cleansing, new life, knowledge, and transformation. That’s Ray Asad Chief Operations Officer and Chief Financial Officer apropos for an institution of higher learning. Though some of us were Brent Assink Chief of Philanthropy eager to see the flourishing of a new life for Fuller in Pomona (and Tod Bolsinger VP and Chief of Leadership Formation disappointed when that dream died), I won’t regret the chance to call this Lauralee Farrer Chief Storyteller and VP of Communications green oasis home again in a new way. There is something about a place Marcus Sun VP of Global Recruitment, Admissions, Marketing, and Retention that has seen so many gatherings of diverse groups with equally diverse purposes, a place that has contained bodies in tension or in unity, voices raised in tumult or song, over so many generations. It is easy to imagine hope for Fuller to flourish here because this is where we are together. Issue #16 2020 LAURALEE FARRER + Cara Vezeau (MAICS ’17) dances with resident + FULLER magazine (ISSN 2377-5432) is published for the global community of Fuller is chief storyteller and vice president of communications. Theological Seminary. The editorial content of FULLER magazine reflects the opinions of the Cathy at their home, L’Arche Wavecrest, in Orange, various authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the views of Fuller California. Read Cara’s story on p. 18. Theological Seminary. We are a free publication of Fuller Theological Seminary. If you would like to make a contribution or if you have inquiries, please email [email protected]. © 2020 by Fuller Theological Seminary. Produced in limited quantities. FULLER MAGAZINE | FULLER.EDU/STUDIO ISSUE #16 | IMAGINING HOPE 28 90 76 58 96 82 24 18 28 18 52 28 74 12 66 + Contents of this issue STORY THEOLOGY VOICE 42 12 We Treat Them With Dignity 12 Introduction to “Imagining Hope” 38 Making the Invisible Visible: Prophetic Voices on Rest 76 Ezer Kang learns on repeated trips to a medical clinic in Dehli, Scott Cormode, Guest Editor Drama and Social Change 62 Voices on Repentance 82 India, about choosing embrace over moral disgust Andre Henry A Shared Story of Future Hope 40 DEPARTMENTS A Home with Heart 18 Scott Cormode Spirit Outside the Gate: Imagining a Cara Vezeau learns about disability, inclusion, and community Church Without Borders with her friends at L’Arche Wavecrest Hope for the Pain of the Korean Youth Spirit Outside the Gate: Cómo From Mark Labberton, President 8 한국 청소년들의 아픔에 대한 소망 47 Imaginar una Iglesia Sin Fronteras 66 Future of Fuller 90 Seeing their Trauma 24 Eun Ah Cho 조은아 Oscar García-Johnson Rick Jackson uses EMDR—eye movement desensitization and Recent Faculty Books and Publications 93 reprocessing—therapy to help his clients view their trauma in a new light Black and White 54 Pastoring through Political Division: Benediction 97 Teesha Hadra and John Hambrick Preserving the Tie that Binds 70 About Fuller 97 Northeast of Capitol Hill 28 Scott Cormode, Andrés Zelaya, Suzanne Vogel, Pastors Justin Fung and Delonte Gholston engage the The Role of Mindfulness in the Midst of Phil Allen Jr., Kevin Haah challenges that face their communities in Northeast Pain: The Importance of Present-Focus Washington, DC Attention58 Joey Fung 6 7 FULLER MAGAZINE | FULLER.EDU/STUDIO ISSUE #16 | IMAGINING HOPE Imagining a Hope that Transcends From Mark Labberton, President Imaginando una Esperanza que Trasciende Por Mark Labberton 초월하는 소망을 꿈꾸기 마크 레바튼 People in pain have a keen sensor that sniffs To stand in the ashes of your burned-up ing realities. Being Jewish or Palestinian So what counts as hope in the face of see and hear an entirely different hope. To out platitudes in a flash, that rebuffs cheap home would be devastating: the immediate can feel like this.

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