Creative Courses in the Jungle
The BFREE field station serves as an oasis optimal for artistic pursuit, retreat, and growth.
Playing in nature: Simple, fun and important for your child’s growth
Studying a caterpillar’s path on the sidewalk, piling sticks to make a fort in the woods, making a crown out of dandelions, dredging a moat around a sandcastle at the beach.
This is nature play: Simple activities that nonetheless have a powerful impact on a child’s development.
This is nature play: Simple activities that nonetheless have a powerful impact on a child’s development.
When the wheels fall off: Changing faculty morale
After more than a decade of faculty, staff and budget cuts at Bethel University, former professors describe what led them to seek positions elsewhere and administration comments on the current climate and spirit.
Independent and empowered: Stories of First-Gen Students
Four Bethel students share their experiences as first-generation college students.
Asleep in the back of a yellow bus, Navidad Sanchez Resendiz made her way home from first grade, exhausted from a day of learning to navigate a school and make friends who spoke a different language. At the age of six, Sanchez Resendiz moved from Mexico to the United States, joining her parents and younger sister who were already living in the U.S. When the bus driver made his way to the back of the bus, checking
Asleep in the back of a yellow bus, Navidad Sanchez Resendiz made her way home from first grade, exhausted from a day of learning to navigate a school and make friends who spoke a different language. At the age of six, Sanchez Resendiz moved from Mexico to the United States, joining her parents and younger sister who were already living in the U.S. When the bus driver made his way to the back of the bus, checking
On Change
Stepping off of an airplane in Belize starts like most trips to tropical locations: the humid air leads to shedding layers, tying the flannel that kept you warm in Minnesota around your waist and admiring the palm trees. Yet in Belize, the familiar feeling of family vacation to Disney World fades quickly as you walk outside of the airport, being funneled towards a door. Once inside, bright turquoise walls and dim lighting provide the path towards your baggage. Our tightly packed hiking bags arri
Bethel goats and the buckthorn behind them
Trent Viesselman faced an early October snow behind Lissner Hall, digging through drifts and fighting the wind to find the neon pink markers driven into the ground.
Vivian Marchan looked over her shoulder in the woods after hearing a rustling. When she turned around, a deer was following her.
Cady Peterson spent many hours sporting chest-high waders, beating away branches and practically crawling through shrubbery.
All of this to count the buckthorn that grows on Bethel University’s campus st
Vivian Marchan looked over her shoulder in the woods after hearing a rustling. When she turned around, a deer was following her.
Cady Peterson spent many hours sporting chest-high waders, beating away branches and practically crawling through shrubbery.
All of this to count the buckthorn that grows on Bethel University’s campus st
Stories from the sheep farm
Transitioning from rural Iowa to the Twin Cities causes a time of reflection.
Storytelling in the "Bethel universe" and beyond
J.D. O’Brien, filmmaker and Bethel employee, recently premiered his newest film “After the Gunflint.”
Social media as a scrapbook
Rather than creating an environment of toxicity, I treat my Instagram as a collection of pieces representing growth.
Follow me on Instagram @_mollymcfadden. Do it. Do it right now.
Thank you! Now, keep it pulled up because this is an interactive story. A “Choose Your Own Adventure” book.
Try to find a theme between my last three posts. A color scheme I often use or a template that fits each photo selection. I’d love to hear your thoughts because I can’t find one. And I don’t want to.
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Follow me on Instagram @_mollymcfadden. Do it. Do it right now.
Thank you! Now, keep it pulled up because this is an interactive story. A “Choose Your Own Adventure” book.
Try to find a theme between my last three posts. A color scheme I often use or a template that fits each photo selection. I’d love to hear your thoughts because I can’t find one. And I don’t want to.
My acco
Theatre students navigate the unknown
After the elimination of the theatre minor, students look to their paths forward.