Conversations

“There is no phrase more semantically empty than ‘the real world.’” —Amin Aminfar

Dear Fellows and Friends,

This summer has been a meaningful time of growth, transition, and preparation at the Academy. We all especially offer our best to Aimee Beach (three-year staff member) as she transitions into the next stage of her career. Her article below offers some meaningful reflections on her time serving the Academy.

We also welcome Grady and Sarah Powell, our new staff members who began this summer.

Highlights in this issue of Conversations include Amin Aminfar’s engaging article, which describes the power that imagination and community can have over the status quo, and the beautiful artwork which Mary Catherine Caldwell (’07) completed as part of her study in art.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments.

Trinity Forum Academy Staff

Academy Update

• Class of 2007 Graduates. Read where they're headed.
• Grady and Sarah Powell join the Academy Staff. More about the Powells.
• The Barn renovations are near completion!

Reflections

Here’s Why Female Teachers are Having Sex with Students

J. P. Moreland

J. P. Moreland, distinguished professor of philosophy at Biola University, was a scholar in residence at Osprey Point in 2007. In this essay, he reflects on reasons the media and others seem to miss the blatant issues behind the news.

Reality Reconsidered

Amin Aminfar

Amin Aminfar (’03) is finished with grad school but is still learning. “There is no phrase more semantically empty than ‘the real world.’ Once one enters the real world, apparently, the airy considerations of Christian community—or the kind of idealism that corresponds to a “protected” learning experience—must give way to harsher truths of driving to work and paying the bills.”

Eating Lunch With No One Looking

Alicia Luschei

A 2007 graduate reflects on one area of her growth over the past year. “From the boardroom to the classroom to the manufacturing plant to the bedroom, as God’s image bearers, both male and female have something profound to offer one another in each situation.”

Housekeeping

Aimee Beach

Our former assistant director of residential life reflects on her time at the Academy in this meditation written earlier this spring. “On Graduation Day I will not graduate, but I will pass through some sort of ending stage and leave the lodge that night with butterflies in my stomach, tears in my eyes, and a longing to look one more time around the dining room table with the ‘family’ filling every seat.”

Artwork

Mary Catherine Caldwell

The artist comments on the artwork featured in the July Conversations newsletter, with larger versions of each work.