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Week 4, 50 Days
This week began the 50 days of celebrating turning 50. I always honor my birthday by doing something celebratory for as many days as I am...
Beth Elliot
Oct 1, 20211 min read
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Week 2, Death, Happiness, and Theology
This quarter is filled with fascinating contrasts. Reading simultaneously about death, happiness, and expanding my knowledge of...
Beth Elliot
Sep 24, 20212 min read
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Week 3, Sanctuary!
This week marked my return to Sanctuary work! Hooray!! Due to a regulation within the Unitarian Universalist Association, there was a...
Beth Elliot
Sep 24, 20212 min read
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Another Year Begins...
My second year of seminary begins with some deep dives into Theology, as I tackle taking Intro to Theology and Practical Theology. Thus...
Beth Elliot
Sep 18, 20212 min read
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Week 1, Transhumanism
This week I was introduced to Dr. Butler's Black Transhuman Liberation Theology. I knew I was going to be challenged in this course the...
Beth Elliot
Sep 17, 20212 min read
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July and August
This summer I went to visit the graves of numerous loved ones. I spent as much time hiking and camping as I could. My daughter came to...
Beth Elliot
Aug 28, 20211 min read
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Jun 23, 20210 min read
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Jun 16, 20210 min read
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June 2021: Ma
Boulder Falls Pearl Street Coot Lake at sunset
Beth Elliot
Jun 11, 20211 min read
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Jun 8, 20210 min read
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Spring Week 10, One Year Down
View from a hike I took near Button Rock to celebrate turning in my last assignment. This quarter, I read more than a dozen books, 40...
Beth Elliot
May 28, 20211 min read
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Spring Week Nine, Identity, Power, & Vocation in Community
The end of the first year of seminary is approaching. This week we were asked to reflect on how we have grown in regards to our Identity,...
Beth Elliot
May 21, 20213 min read
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Spring Week Eight
One of the reasons I thrive when working with Dr. Julie Todd is due to her understanding of the various ways in which we can express and...
Beth Elliot
May 14, 20211 min read
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Spring Week Seven
There was an incident in some of my activism work this month that demonstrates some of the challenges from this week’s materials. A group...
Beth Elliot
May 7, 20212 min read
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Spring Week Six, Desire
This week, we engaged in an exercise from the podcast, https://www.healingjustice.org/podcast/41 Going through the exercises was...
Beth Elliot
Apr 30, 20211 min read
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Spring Week Five
Antisemitism, as a system of oppression that works in a cyclical way, is distinct in that ”the goal is not to crush [Jews], it’s to have...
Beth Elliot
Apr 23, 20214 min read
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Spring Week Four, What are the questions?
Not long ago I was mourning the loss of decades of work and connections within my old community in NM. However, my past position as the...
Beth Elliot
Apr 16, 20213 min read
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Spring Week Three
Mia Mingus, once again, stabbed me in the heart with some of what Resmaa Menakem calls Clean Pain. In the video, What is Accountability,...
Beth Elliot
Apr 9, 20211 min read
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Spring Week Two
I recently went through my denominationally mandated psychological assessment. It was an intense process that lasted more than a month,...
Beth Elliot
Apr 2, 20212 min read
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Spring Week One: Boulder Mass Shooting
Spring Quarter started with a mass shooting in Boulder. Eleven people died in the King Soopers. The day was filled with sirens, panicked...
Beth Elliot
Mar 26, 20212 min read
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