a resource collective for women /blogs/grit/articles/category/tenacity Thecla Li <em>“My life is full of women: my mother and grandmothers, three sisters, two daughters, two nieces, and countless friends. They’re all so important in my life. I really began to realize that life was different for women, though, when I went to the...</em> Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/grit/2021/women-in-the-church /blogs/grit/2021/women-in-the-church Rachel McCready-White This semester has been unique to say the very least. There is a heaviness to it that wasn’t quite there before. There is a grief that wasn’t there before either. Our country and our world in a lot of ways and for various reasons is in chaos. Our... Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/grit/2020/even-here /blogs/grit/2020/even-here Thecla Li <em>In the United States, September is National Suicide Awareness month. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of depression and suicidality nationally and globally have increased tremendously, and our community at 91��Ƭ�� is not immune to...</em> Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0700 /blogs/grit/2020/a-letter-to-someone-who-s-tired /blogs/grit/2020/a-letter-to-someone-who-s-tired Rachel McCready-White, Logan Lusk Hello friends, As you’ve probably heard, the school year is not beginning the way many of us wished it would. In an effort to stay safe and adhere to protocol, Biola has decided to begin the semester online. And while we wish we could begin the... Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0700 /blogs/grit/2020/welcome-back-kind-of /blogs/grit/2020/welcome-back-kind-of Yukari Becker “You don’t look Asian” “Can you speak it?” “Yukari?! - what is that?” These phrases were my norm growing up. The things I constantly heard when meeting people or when someone figured out that I was biracial. The majority of the time this all came... Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/grit/2020/for-all-womankind /blogs/grit/2020/for-all-womankind Jasmyne Bell It took me a long time to start writing this post. When I was given the task to write about what it means to surrender to God, I was unable to grasp the concept. Surrender sounds extreme. It is the word correlated with losing a battle; for when... Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/grit/2019/surrender /blogs/grit/2019/surrender Rachel McCready-White Father God, I pray for the women of Biola. That we would see the image of You in our reflections. I pray that that would empower us, shape us and grow us into who you have created us to be. I pray that we would see your glory in that; that your... Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/grit/2019/a-prayer-for-the-women-of-biola /blogs/grit/2019/a-prayer-for-the-women-of-biola Logan Lusk <em>Trigger Warning: mental health</em> In 2018, the American College Health Association published a shocking report about the mental wellbeing of college students, and the findings were scary, to say the least. Over 60 percent of students said they were... Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:25:00 -0700 /blogs/grit/2019/wrestling-with-ourselves1 /blogs/grit/2019/wrestling-with-ourselves1 Jasmyne Bell There is nothing easy about feeling lonely. Everyone feels it sometimes, but what I’ve noticed is that young adulthood brings much more loneliness than any of us anticipated it would. During this transitional time in our lives as college students,... Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700 /blogs/grit/2019/belonging /blogs/grit/2019/belonging Alyse Mgrdichian <em>Trigger Warning: depression, mental health</em> <em></em> There is no graceful way to introduce depression. It the elephant in the room, the topic we all know about but feel uncomfortable discussing. After all, people don’t particularly enjoy admitting that... Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:44:09 -0700 /blogs/grit/2019/when-the-storm-won-t-pass-and-there-s-still-a-monster-under-your-bed /blogs/grit/2019/when-the-storm-won-t-pass-and-there-s-still-a-monster-under-your-bed