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STORY | THEOLOGY | VOICE FULLER ISSUE #11 | HEALTH AND HEALING David Eubank [MDiv ’95], balancing military and mission, seeks the holistic health of those in war zones: “We respond not necessarily as soldiers but as ambassadors for Jesus to help people in the worst situations, with whatever kind of aid they need.” READ DAVID'S STORY ON P. 28 + Eric Tai’s (MAICS ’17) dense charcoal landscapes Bóhu and Tóhu (a segment of Bóhu is pictured here) reference the “formless and void” beginning of creation. The two artworks were used in Fuller’s All Semi- nary Chapel as the source for the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday, marking the community with an acknowledgement of mortality and the potential of new life. Also see Eric’s work on pages 11 and 97. STORY | THEOLOGY | VOICE FULLER ISSUE #11 | HEALTH & HEALING SEMINARY LEADERSHIP + A Power Deeper than Language Mark Labberton President Mari L. Clements Acting Provost Lenny Moon Chief Financial Officer I learned about the liturgical year quite meditative videos on the liturgical Tod Bolsinger VP and Chief of Leadership Formation Lauralee Farrer Chief Storyteller and VP of Communications late in my Christian life. We never talked seasons using three simple elements— Jon Yasuda VP for Development about such things as Advent or Epiphany landscapes, Scripture, and voices of our Bill Clark Senior Advisor in my church tradition. The closest community. It was a risk: we gathered thing we had to mystery was found on the elements randomly as we were able, CREATIVE PRODUCTION potluck tables: casseroles with crushed trusting that something of value would Lauralee Farrer Editor in Chief potato chip toppings, Swedish meatballs emerge. We puzzled them together often Tamara Johnston McMahon Senior Producer in crockpot gravy, lime green Jello just in time to release at the beginning Becky Still Senior Editorial Manager Michael Wright Editor with floating slices of banana. I have of each season. We found that the Kathryn Sangsland Project Manager a memory of a plastic glass of colored meditative nature of the seasons tell Nate Harrison Senior Photographer and Video Storyteller toothpicks that captured my toddler of the presence of God over and over Katy Cook Designer attention as full of pointy danger and in the way the light moves through the Brandon Hook Designer enigmatic purpose. day, the mood of spring or of winter, the Denise Louise Klitsie Principal Illustrator It wasn’t until I was 40, questioning colors and the sounds of the world when Randall Cole Design and Production Consultant my own purpose, when the life I’d humans are quiet. Turns out it was no Robert Bethke Director of International Communications Lucy Kim, Tag Oh, Inés Velasquez-McBryde, Sergio Zapata built collapsed from my own self- risk at all: the pieces often fit together Translation Services righteousness and ill-advised choices. so cleanly that it made me suspect that Elijah Davidson Web and Digital Media Manager That was when I discovered the liturgical every true story, sought deeply enough, Susan Carlson Wood Proofreader year and its agency for restructuring will tell of God’s love. a ruined life. Mimicking the arc of the One afternoon, when Assistant CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Free Burma Rangers, Michelle Yung Nadolski life of Christ, it starts in anticipation Professor of Global Leadership with Advent, celebrates the birth of the Development Peter Lim graciously came COVER Messiah, discovers the transformation to our office to record a voiceover in David Eubank, photographed by Nate Harrison of Epiphany, carries through to the Mandarin, I wept through his recording— lament of Lent, the wonder of Easter, as I did with each one, no matter the THEOLOGY SECTION ADVISORY BOARD Chair Joel B. Green PhD, Professor of New Testament the empowerment of Pentecost, and the language: Swahili, French, Korean, Interpretation long season of Ordinary Time working English, Spanish, Finnish. Why, I asked Keon-Sang An PhD, Associate Professor of Bible and Mission and waiting for the year to begin again. him, should I be so moved, even when I D. Scott Cormode PhD, Hugh De Pree Professor of Recalibrating myself to its rhythm— did not understand? “It’s the Scriptures, Leadership Development along with the hours of prayer—healed Lauralee,” he gently explained: their Kurt Fredrickson PhD, Associate Dean for the DMin and Continuing Education me in the way sobriety meetings or power is deeper than language. We hope Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen DrTheol, Professor of Systematic long-distance running do for some. Its they will be of service to you in ways we Theology structure bears the weight of my days don’t anticipate, with a power that is Mark Labberton PhD, President and, in the decades since, I have not beyond us. As always. Kara E. Powell PhD, Executive Director of Fuller Youth Institute and Assistant Professor of Youth and Family Ministry found the end of its capacity to bind me Brad D. Strawn PhD, Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor of the to Christ—and thereby to my own life. + LAURALEE Integration of Psychology and Theology The power of the eternal year was FARRER is chief Jude Tiersma Watson PhD, Associate Professor of Urban known and celebrated ages before storyteller and Misson vice president of Miyoung Yoon Hammer PhD, Associate Professor of Marriage I caught on. Great witnesses of the and Family Therapy faith, ancient and contemporary, have communications. perfected liturgies, written music and poetry, and strengthened the traditions that undergird the seasons. This last year, FULLER studio built a series of Issue #11 2018 + FULLER magazine (ISSN 2377-5432) is published for the global community of Fuller Theological Seminary. The editorial content of FULLER + Starting on page 80, the entire Voice section of this magazine plays out some magazine reflects the opinions of the various authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the views of Fuller Theological of the stories we discovered. I urge the reader to go online and experience the Seminary. We are a free publication of Fuller Theological Seminary. If you videos—published now far in advance of Advent, to allow pastors and others would like to make a contribution or if you have inquiries, please email time to plan for using them in their small groups or churches. [email protected]. © 2018 by Fuller Theological Seminary. Produced in limited quantities. 80 Voices on the Liturgical Seasons This meditative series offers images and Scripture for each season, from Advent through Ordinary Time THEOLOGY FULLER studio + Content available online fuller.edu/studio VOICE FULLER VOICES Jude Tiersma Watson Missiologist VOICE STORY THEOLOGY STORY VOICE THEOLOGY STORY FULLER VOICES CAMERON STORY LEE Psychologist FULLER magazine + Contents of this issue STORY 12 Adapt After losing his leg in a car accident, Chris Ng sees moments of God’s grace in the long, sometimes arduous journey of healing body, mind, and soul 18 Full Personhood As she supports members of the Asian Pacific Islander community who have experienced abuse, Ellen Hong works to ensure that all are treated with dignity 22 Vicarious Trauma and the LAPD Luann Pannell is committed to training Los Angeles police officers to navigate intense, perpetually draining work in ways that are emotionally healthy 28 Missionary Soldier David Eubank melds his military training with a compassionate faith to offer help where it’s needed in dangerous combat zones THEOLOGY 34 Introduction 60 A Christian Spirituality of Amos Yong Healing: Integrating Guest Theology Editor Neo-Confucian Resources 36 Pneuma and Pneumonia: in China Reconsidering the Relationship Bin You Between Spiritual and 66 Pentecostal and Charismatic Medical Healing Healing in the 20th Century E. Janet Warren Kimberly Ervin Alexander with 42 DACA and the Health of Cecil M. Robeck Jr. Immigrant Youth: 70 Perspectives of Christian What Can the Church Do? Healers on Biomedicine in Norma Ramírez, Jennifer Hernández, Jean Sub-Saharan Africa Carlos Arce Cabrera, and Lisseth Rojas-Flores Ludovic Lado 50 Cures What Ails You: 76 Health in Personal, Social, Explanations of Disease and and Eschatological Perspective: Healing in the New Testament A Theological-Pastoral Brandon Walker Reflection 56 Disabled and Healthy Amos Yong Shane Clifton with Bethany McKinney Fox VOICE 80 The Liturgical Year DEPARTMENTS 8 From Mark Labberton, President 96 Recent Faculty Books and Publications 98 About Fuller 99 Benediction Our Embodied Selves Nuestros Seres Encarnados 우리의 형체화된 자아 From Mark Labberton, President Through my years as a pastor, health issues most healthy among us will eventually face were a continuous fugue under the life of that we are all small-framed, soft-bodied, our congregation. If someone had good—or short-lived creatures. We could do crunches reasonably good—health, they were con- all day, every day, and still be forced to admit cerned with keeping it that way. If they that “rock-hard abs” are only ever a meta- didn’t have it, sickness colored or threat- phor. However we may strain to deny the ened everything else. In a community, each facts much of the time, the clock ticks om- point in the spectrum is occupied by some- inously behind our fears of one day hearing one, so we were in continuous motion of re- the diagnosis: terminal. joicing and weeping together. All of this explains why health issues so Health issues expose our vulnerability like readily and urgently expose our theodicy little else. Our finitude comes into sharp fo- questions: Why? Why me or my loved one? cus, and it’s a view everyone hates. Even the Why now? Doubt that might otherwise be A través de mis años como pastor, los Los problemas de salud exponen nuestra vul- problemas de salud fueron un asunto de nerabilidad como pocas otras cosas.