2007 Photo Journals

Photo Journal #15

Uganda: Fall 2007 | Kimberly Kurczy
I have always had a preoccupation with the African continent. Since college, my passion for theatre and social change collaborated, leading me into the world of politically imbued theatre. I want to participate in theatre used towards reconciliation. I love when the potential of theatre's power is tapped, such as how it was used in South Africa to fight apartheid and in Rwanda post-genocide.

I spent four months, the fall of my senior year at Gordon, studying at Uganda Christian University in Mukono, Uganda. At points I wanted to rub my skin off. It was a difficult semester. I also wanted to stay though--I want to be a person who stays.

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Photo Journal #14

Gordon: A Student's Life | Abigail Geer
Being in nature, or watching it out the window for a moment as I work, has consistently been something that draws me back into a larger reality than I am usually aware of. Watching a duck swim on the pond, move slowly and focus on gathering food reminds me that God is sustaining not just my sometimes frenzied, often demanding life, but the simple lives of everything I see around me. The woods and the water on campus are signals to me to remember my Creator, and that papers are not what sustain or end the world.

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Photo Journal #13

Greece: Summer 2007 | Mike Tishel
Home to hundreds of Eastern Orthodox monks, the rugged terrain of Mt. Athos, a small peninsula in Northern Greece, has acted as a spiritual training ground and workshop for the spiritual athletes of the Christian faith since as early as the tenth century. My father, a friend and I decided to make the journey. I did not know what I was seeking. Answers of some sort were certainly desirable, but my young, naïve mind was attracted to the romantic serenity and mysticism that, I soon discovered, did not capture the essence of the Mountain.

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Photo Journal #012

South Africa: Summer 2007 | Meredith Whitnah
I think I started to learn then what South Africa gave me most profoundly. Life is fragile. We are insignificant specks of dust. It is a tenuous, difficult, painful thing to live. And yet, it is beautiful, we do matter, and, perhaps most importantly, it is within that paradox of meaninglessness yet meaning that we discover grace.

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Photo Journal #011

China: Fall 2005 | Sam Tsoi
As I walked through these diverse places and meet different people, I was challenged to ask questions about the consequences of development, the tension of racing toward the future and sustaining continuity with the ancient, and the challenges and responsibilities of a global citizen.

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