Ourselves Revealed

I am very excited about being able to write a blog post since I am in seminary and I don't know the next chance I will have to write another blog post! Yet at the same time, I’m nervous because I don’t know how to articulate my feelings and I’m afraid that it will send me on the down spiral of an emotional headache because I’m overanalyzing my feelings (which I am infamously known to do.) I thought I knew what I was going to say, but BOOM! An experience like lighting happens, I know that I must blog about that. I guess that experience doesn't make since unless I give some background information. For the last two weeks I have been in a class called, “Transformative Seminary Education,” TSE for short. I use the term “class” very loosely, because while I do get credit for it, TSE is more of a bonding experience for the incoming cohort. In fact, now that TSE is over, we still have about a week before we officially start our fall classes with the rest of the seminary. When as...

Hello beautiful souls! It’s hard to write a blog because my head is still buzzing with everything that was thrown at us during orientation. I could write about the physical and emotional experiences of moving to a new city, or I could write about the spiritual and emotional discussions we had about boundaries, race, and privilege we had on the second day of new student orientation. However, I feel like unpacking that right now would cause me an emotional headache; so in order to avoid that emotional headache, I will right about an interest of mine, movies. Specifically animated Disney and Studio Ghibli movies. I love the way Disney weaves intricate morals and values into retellings of fairytales in family movies. I love the whimsical worlds that Hayao Miyazaki paints for us as if we are getting a glimpse into his dreams. These movies are pictures of fantastical wonderment; I feel like I enjoy animated movies even more so than live action movies. I’m an avid fan of Disney and Studi...