Author: Speaking Culturally: Spanish for Missions
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Returning to Seminary, with God
I just wrote about leaving seminary, and indeed I had. I wrote that I was losing my connection with God, that it was making me passive about racial justice because we were reading so much about it, and that it was also causing me to invest too much in my teachers, their work and their […]
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Leaving Seminary with Najwa Zebian
I support Christian higher education. I have been a student at two and the last school NNU (Northwest Nazarene University) for two years. A record since the other time I was only enrolled for 2 quarters (Seattle Pacific University). I liked both of these schools but dropped out from both. In this post I write […]
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Nurturing Female Leadership: When Mentorship Goes Wrong
“Perhaps this will be the book that heals me,” I told myself as I was writing my own. I’ve blogged for years, and two years ago published my first book but I’m still learning what it looks like to heal with scars – and how to be at peace with those scars. I wrote this […]
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A Basic Guide to Critical Reading
Ask yourself: what do I see? what does it mean? and how can it be understood? What do I see? When I am reading a text critically, first of all, I always have a pencil – I am looking to ask questions, not write answers. I am asking myself if I have an accurate grasp […]
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Book Review: From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry
Book Editors: Anne E. Streaty Wimberly, Nathaniel D. West, Annie Lockhart-Gilroy From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry tackles the problem of racism in contemporary US education, society, and religion. The book is unique: unlike a lot of the racial justice books I read, it didn’t talk about the complicity of the […]
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Public Education is Failing Most in Seattle
The history of Seattle is one steeped in racism and, not surprisingly, public education is faring poorly in Seattle. This is for complex reasons, mostly associated with racism of white students and parents not wanting to be bussed to diverse schools from rich, white Queen Anne in the early 2000’s. I remembered when my husband […]
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Teaching “Fire by Night,” by John Beecher
Fire by Night When the burnt black bodies of the homeless Were found in the embers of the Negro church Into which they had crept to sleep on the floor The wails of the people traveled down the cold wind And reached the ears of the rich on the mountain […]
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Share Stories in Community
Watching the beauty of conversations in sign language helped me see that language is first and foremost a vehicle for story. On a Sunday afternoon, the sun setting in Roseville, California, I walked into a packed and yet silent Starbucks. It was eerie to hear the rustle of clothing with no voices until I realized […]
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I still care about public education
I started my business Seahurst Wellness and Education Canter, LLC prior to the pandemic, but then went into the classroom again when they started cancelling school because they didn’t have enough substitute teachers. What I saw in the public school system while there dismayed me. I didn’t want to flee, even though I did resign. […]
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