Trinity Fellows Academy

01/12/2024

Cat Ricketts's book available for pre-order!

Are caregiving and creative labor fundamentally at odds? Is it possible for mothers to attend to both? Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. How are motherhood and artmaking at play and at odds in the lives of women? What can we learn about ambi...

01/10/2024

Our own Wendell Kimbrough was interviewed on The Rabbit Room podcast!

Songwriter Wendell Kimbrough has been writing, recording, and performing songs based on the Psalms for the last few years. His most recent record is called You Belong. In this episode, Wendell and Jonathan Rogers talk about loneliness, perfectionism, feeling like an outsider, learning to belong–an...

01/12/2022

Happy 2022, and a warm welcome back to alumni and friends. We are re-vamping the Alumni Network and would love to hear what you've been up to! Please feel free to post updates, start conversations, and ask questions.

05/24/2017

Fellow Lauren Alfieri chronicles our week with Dr. Mike Kane on technology and ethics. We always love an opportunity to put folks like GK Chesterton, Ray Kurzweil, and the makers of Blade Runner in conversation: http://trinityfellowsacademy.org/2017/04/28/week-33/

Imagine you could exponentially stretch your brain’s capacity—enough to do long division in your head or perfectly recall anything you read. What if scient

05/24/2017

Kristyn Miller reflects on what the private sector teaches us about work ethic: http://trinityfellowsacademy.org/2017/05/04/private-sector-teaches-us-work-ethic-week-34/

Our work matters. Everything that we do on this earth carries real and tangible consequences, in both now in this life and into eternity. I am not the best

05/24/2017

We loved our time with James K.A. Smith a few weeks back. Fellow Andrew Collins writes a bit about it here: http://trinityfellowsacademy.org/2017/05/10/catching-a-love-for-the-good-life-week-35/

If you’d asked me a month ago what the largest church in America is, I’d have guessed Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, TX, which averages north of

05/24/2017

Kathryn Ervin gives us the inside scoop on the culminating event of her creative thesis:

"Art is the bread and butter of the liturgical: the imbibing of space and time, the texture of a most beautiful narrative...."

http://trinityfellowsacademy.org/2017/05/22/the-illumination/

Until I was 7, my family attended a Presbyterian church in our small rural community. This church had a breezeway that connected the Sunday-school rooms to

05/10/2017

Here's a fun article by Fellow Becky Brown http://humanepursuits.com/anna-karenina-long/

On Insta-life and long stories.

04/26/2017

On our blog, Fellow Andrew Collins thinks about the crisis of aging in America:

"The greatest factor in determining quality of life in old age is relationships—companionship. As with any other time of life, this is what aging people need the most. Without it, isolation leads to loneliness and depression, which often undergirds physical maladies.

For Christians in this era of shifting age demographics, this means that the first and most fundamental response to the aging issue is the biblical writer James’ pure and practical religion, 'to visit orphans and (especially nowadays) widows in their distress.'"

Read more at http://trinityfellowsacademy.org/2017/04/25/facing-death-from-afar-week-32/

“I mean, anyone comes alongside a Humvee, we're dead. Anybody even looks at you funny, we're dead. Pretty much the bottom line is, if you're in Iraq, you'r

04/26/2017

"Love, expressed through art, is not superfluous. It’s necessary."- Becky Brown​

Read about TFA's Arts week over on our blog: http://trinityfellowsacademy.org/2017/04/06/why-art-is-necessary-week-31/

Why art? This is a question that any artist will receive in the course of her creative process. Ask some Christian artists, and the question Why art? feels

03/29/2017

"Learning to see a new face of Islam started with seeing the face of a Muslim."

Fellow Jeff Banks comes to a deeper understanding of another family of faith, and writes about it here: http://trinityfellowsacademy.org/2017/03/29/encounter-with-islam-week-30/

As I sat at the back of a mosque in Atlanta last spring and heard the Adhan, or call to worship, a scene from the TV show Homeland immediately flash

03/29/2017

"It is necessary to address technology as a nonnegotiable part of the human experience, incorporating it into our pursuit of human flourishing and the glory of God rather then trying to avoid it altogether."

Fellow Tianna Stieglitz writes about our week with Andy & Catherine Crouch over on the TFA blog...

http://trinityfellowsacademy.org/2017/03/23/on-technology-and-family-week-28/

The irony of writing a blog post about the overwhelming nature and influence of technology is not lost on me. It takes a hard stop for me to actually take