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Patricia Bruininks

Patty Bruininks grew up in northeast Tennessee. She left the South to attend college in Michigan and graduated from Hope College. She pursued her doctoral work in social psychology at the University of Oregon, becoming a lifelong Ducks fan. Before moving to Spokane, she taught for five years at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Now at Whitworth, she teaches courses on the psychology of poverty and consumerism as well as a course on love and forgiveness. She also studies and conducts research on the emotion of hope. Dr. B (as her students call her) is married to Mr. B (Jim); she has two grown sons, two daughters-in-law, one granddaughter, and a rescue dog. Her hobbies include camping, photography, and spinning. She is in her 13th year at Whitworth University as a Professor of Psychology.
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Grateful for the Kindness of Strangers

It is so easy for us to hide in our metal boxes as we speedily pass people in need. “Someone else will stop” we think to ourselves.
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To Work or not to Work: That is the Ethical Question

When we think about work ethic, we often think of the adult who works one or more jobs so she can support her family, pay all her bills, and live “responsibly.”
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When your religion is hijacked by politics

I am a Christian who, like many others, is baffled by the dissonance between pronouncements made by self-proclaimed Christian candidates and the pronounced themes of the Gospels.
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Climate Change and its Psychological Impact on Scientists

A recent article published in the August issue of Esquire magazine examines the effects of climate change: not the physical or sociological effects that all humans will experience (some more than others), but the psychological effects on climate scientists themselves.
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The Rachel Dolezal story and choosing compassion

Our society loves the downfall of an upstanding citizen. Use of the word schadenfreude, a German word meaning the joy one experiences at the misfortune of another, has sharply increased over the past 20 years.
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A New Hope for the New Year

It’s not that striving to be healthy and thrifty are unworthy desires; rather they are means to an end, and too much focus on these does not bring the quality of life we are searching for.
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Christianity, Public Policy, and Sexual Identity: Why Loving the Sinner Doesn’t Do it for Me Anymore

On Oct. 2, Julia Stronks, Professor of Political Science, gave her final Lindaman Chair lecture at Whitworth University. The topic was the role of church and state regarding same-sex marriage, a topic she has explored both through the lens of constitutional law and her own faith journey.
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