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Spirituality
Meaning

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A More Meaningful New Year
Why is this happening? Why did this happen to me? If you are struggling with making meaning of a situation, read more for ideas and practices.
Spirituality

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Thrive Center Awarded Interfaith America’s Faith & Health Campus Grant!
We are thrilled to announce that we have received the “Spiritual Health, Thriving, and Chaplaincy” project grant from Interfaith America. This grant will support an innovative collaboration between Fuller’s MA Chaplaincy (MAC) Program, the Office of Chaplains, and the Thrive Center to equip spiritually-engaged leaders—such as chaplains, clergy, and therapists—with the knowledge and tools to integrate psychological resources within religion and spirituality for promoting mental health and well-being. The project will develop three graduate-level courses, foster campus-community partnerships, and produce a video exploring multi-faith perspectives on spiritual health. Building on Fuller’s rich history of integrating psychology, theology, and intercultural studies,...
Spirituality

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Season 2 Trailer! Reconnect, Repair, Rebuild in 2025
SEASON 2 is launching January 6, 2025! Subscribe to With & For today! How can we reconnect, repair, and rebuild our fractured world? We need grounded scientific insight that we connect us with what is good, true, and beautiful. We need wider perspective that guides us toward purpose, community, wisdom, and spiritual health. Developmental psychologist, ordained minister, and professor, Dr. Pam King introduces Season 2 of With & For, which launches on January 6, 2025. Inviting guests with expertise in psychology, spirituality, and leadership, this new season will tackle practical questions with courage, openness, and hope—focusing on insights, stories, and...
Christian

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What is the Advent season?
What is the advent season all about? We’ll tell you all about the history, when it starts, and how it’s celebrated.
Spirituality

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A Psychology-Backed Framework for Healthy Spirituality
“Spirituality is deeply rooted in love, enables us to receive and experience love from beyond ourselves, and enables us and invigorates us to live out love as ourselves.” The precarious times we live in fill us with anxiety. The rifts and shifts of culture, politics, and religion are leaving us feeling unmoored, disconnected, and alienated from ourselves and each other. And a psychologically informed approach to spirituality is the antidote. In this episode, Dr. Pam King discusses why spirituality is so essential to the human experience, and how it operates as the antidote to the culture of anxiety and despair...
Christian

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Bearing Fruit Where We are Planted
While good soil makes it easier to grow strong trees, we can cultivate the soil of our communities and grow strong roots to fulfill our unique purposes, no matter where we are planted.
Spirituality

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The Six Facets of Spiritual Health with Pam King & Dan Koch (You Have Permission)
Pam King joins licensed therapist Dan Koch on his podcast, You Have Permission, for a discussion of the six facets of spiritual health. Announcement! With & For Season 2 is dropping on January 5, 2025! And until then, every Monday from September to December, we’re sharing some shorter clips, practical features, and other talks or interviews featuring Dr. Pam King, to offer insight into what it means to thrive and pursue spiritual health.
Love

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Healthy Spirituality – The Focus is Love: The Role of Leaders
Healthy spirituality supports and develops the human capacity to love. Part 2 of a 2-part series.
Love

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Healthy Spirituality – The Focus is Love: Why is Love So Hard?
Healthy spirituality supports and develops the human capacity to love. Part 1 of a 2-part series.
Practices

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Rhythms and Rest (Part 2)
How do rituals around rest help us to regulate? What does it mean to co-regulate? Why might rest be necessary for our spirituality?
Spirituality

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Rhythms and Rest (Part 1)
Why do we need spiritual practices like Sabbath? Is it enough to just rest? This 2-Part series answers these questions and more.