
Beauty, Brokenness, & the Cross
The lecture podcast for TCE 545O: Beauty, Brokenness, & the Cross at the Seattle School of Theology & Psychology.
Podcasting since 2025 • 7 episodes
Beauty, Brokenness, & the Cross
Latest Episodes
Season 1 Episode 8: Sehnsucht, Grief, and the Long Goodbye
In this season finale of Beauty, Brokenness, & the Cross, we talk about the bizarre, sad, longing-filled story of Jesus' Ascension back to heaven. [01:02] Acts 1:3-11, New International Version.[02:29] Here are some
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Episode 8
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Season 1 Episode 7: (Re)Figuring Resurrection
In this episode, our guest lecturer, Dr. Victoria Houser, will invite us to think toward resurrection through writing the body. Be prepared to take moments to pause and write throughout this episode.[01:17] You can find Dr. Hous...
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Episode 7
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Season 1 Episode 6: The Ethics of Witnessing
This week’s episode of the podcast returns to Hannah Dyer’s ideas of “reading queerly” and “refusing empathy” alongside Rhiannon Graybill’s “unhappy reading” to discuss the ethics of witnessing. How might we bear witness to the suffering of oth...
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Episode 6
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Season 1 Episode 5: Holocaust
This episode is about Holocaust, broadly defined, as a representation of Holy Saturday. The episode is heavy, as the past two episodes have been, but please trust that I’ve emphasized education over discomfort for this episode. The show notes a...
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Episode 5
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31:40

Season 1 Episode 4: In the Shadow of the Cross
In this episode of the podcast, our guest lecturer Rachael Clinton Chen, M.Div., will introduce the historical arc of atonement theories in the Christian church and speak to some of the abuses of those atonement theories before offering more li...
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Episode 4
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