Voice

So what counts as hope in the face of “hopeless” chronic need? Caricatures of Christian hope that portray the gospel like a magic pill violate both those who suffer and the love of Jesus to heal them.

We should consider technology a natural frontier for Christian ethics. As we ponder whether the innovations of this world have sufficient moral compass, we imagine Fuller filling a crucial gap.

Every cup of suffering is full. Pain is not only universal but a basis for such Christlike empathy. “Suffering with” breaks the trends of individualism and inches us toward communal life.

The expression of worship and art is embodied, and that this embodiment affects both what we absorb as the world flows through and what we release back into it.

Jesus was not a quieting influence. He was an unsettling disturber of the peace. Jesus’ teaching seemed to crack open the whole universe.

Health issues expose our vulnerability like little else. Even the most healthy among us will eventually face that we are all small-framed, soft-bodied, short-lived creatures.

I love work. More specifically and honestly, I love the work I love. Who doesn’t? Much of that work involves people and ideas, creativity and imagination, problem solving and decision making.

While containing some of our deepest longings and hopes, shalom is at once deeply desired and never fully experienced. It describes what God’s grace intends, while the ordinary world of discord, violence, and broken relationships roils unresolved.

It’s not that we have different Bibles but that we see the same Bible differently, depending on where we’re standing.

“Young people” still means me. It also means you.

It is invigorating to imagine the presence of God at our table in the bread or accompanying us in a groan of prayer too deep for words or hosted in a suffering man’s expression.

Fuller is committed to an ethos of integration. We intend to apply theology to the whole of life, and the whole of life to theology, so that this commitment informs and gives meaning to everything we study.

This issue of FULLER magazine is not meant to address race relations in America; it’s about reconciling race here—at Fuller and in the wider church we serve.

Fuller intends equality. This intention is very important—whether we’ve arrived or are only headed the right way on the path.

There’s also more to the story of being evangelical, which is why we chose to focus on it in the theology section of this, our second issue.

This inaugural issue of FULLER magazine, a new fusion of story, theology, and voice, is meant to reflect the life of Fuller in all her permutations: this is who we are, what we are talking about, and who we are becoming together