Gina N. Brown

  During the readings for this week I was honestly surprised to what depth the Sernee Jones’ retelling of the Passion reached me.   As a Christian for over thirty years, if we only count the thirty plus Good Friday through Easter season that I have experience - not taking into consideration personal devotion, I thought I understood what the Passion conveyed.   Possibly on “a” level I do however with Jones’ insight and access to trauma and grace she has cracked a new understanding for me together with were we find ourselves in history.   It is amazing how exposure deepens understanding.   I don’t believe I was processing the fullness of the story.   Definitely harvesting the parts about myself.   Viewing the story but thinking about myself. Trying to assure my salvation. Like a person who robs a hit and run victim as they lay helpless in the street.   Serene Jones readings have helped me to name that selfishness.   Captured an awareness of it ...

Youth Ministry Assignment ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS:   Go out into your local area either by car, public transportation, or on foot. Make notes of what you see. Take videos and photos as evidence of your cartography fieldwork. Using your notes, create a map of your local area. You may hand draw your map or create a digital map with your notations. You may also print a map from the internet but if you choose to do so, you must also include a separate document with your detailed notations that correspond to your printed map. Upload the map, your notes, fieldwork evidence(videos, and photos), and anything else to Moodle with your reflections on your experience.   Use: Internet research: Go ahead and search the web along with physical mapping, but know that Google and other search engines will not show you everything. Your senses: What do you see, hear, etc.? Smartphone: Take videos and pictures to upload onto Moodle as evidence. Please see the instructional video about using YouTub...

  Taken from the class Youth Ministry Create a Pictorial Essay: I mages from Adolescence Using images of your choice, map out the significant markers of your adolescent experience. Here are some prompts. You are not limited to these prompts. What were some important experiences? What brought you joy? What were the pain points? What questions shaped you? You may use your own images or ones you find online. You may collage them together in any uploadable or linkable format you wish.  Please also include a 500 word write up or recorded audio and/or visual narration about the images you are sharing based on your personal experiences. Your write up or narration should include evidence of having read the readings and listened to/watched the lectures. You may cite or paraphrase. Think dialogically about your personal story of adolescence and the course material this week.

Blue Note preaching assignment completed a unit in Preaching During Crisis and Trauma Introduction Artists are doing more  self-portraits   during the pandemic. It makes sense: what else can you do when you're stuck at home with nothing to look at but yourself, day after day? COVID-19 restrictions have made it difficult to hire models to paint, or to wander neighborhoods in search of human inspiration--and then get close enough to those faces to photograph them. The self-portrait, like the  Ars Poetica,  is a classic art form that most artists experiment with eventually; now, self-portraits have become a way to document our life in this pandemic. Here are some examples that the  Washingtonian  collected, from a call for submissions:   https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/05/15/check-out-these-dramatic-quarantine-self-portraits-taken-by-professional-photographers/ Preachers don't do self-portraits so much as we do  portraits .  (We could de...

Faith & Human Development Child Interview Subject:  Kitty Witty Age:  6 turning 7 in two months at the point of the interview Background:  Kitty Witty lives with her mother, father and brother who is approximately two years younger than her.  Economically the family would classify themselves as lower middle-class African Americans and lives in a predominately urban and African American subdivision.  Her father is a police officer and her mom is a stay at home parent who blogs for part time income.  Kitty Witty is first generation African American on her mother’s side and third generation African on her father’s side of the family.  Kitty Witty attends a language immersion school where she is dually educated in Spanish and English.  While Kitty Whitty’s mother believes in God personally, they do not attend church as a family and recently began attending a Presbyterian Wednesday Kids Club and dinner fellowship where the children are gain informa...