The Justice Conference Asia
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Heroic Path: A Conversation with John Sowers
John Sowers is an author and the President of The Mentoring Project, a movement rewriting the fatherless story through mentoring. He wrote the critically-acclaimed, Fatherless Generation: Redeeming the Story, (HarperCollins, 2010.) His second book, The Heroic Path: In Search of the Masculine Heart, was just released. John received the President’s Champion of Change Award at
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Somaly Mam and Storytelling with Dignity
Photo Credit: The SOLD Project Guest Post by Rachel Goble A few months ago Newsweek posted this in depth article calling Cambodian anti-trafficking and human rights activist Somaly Mam’s story into question. Recently, a statement was issued that she had resigned after a private investigation into the validity of the story she has been telling about herself and
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From the Archives: Don’t Go to Antioch!
I just discovered an old copy of Antioch: The Magazine while cleaning my office! The magazine morphed and changed over the years but its goal was to provide a behind the scenes, detailed glimpse at the life of Antioch. The article below is one of the very first things I wrote for Antioch and appeared
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Time to Re-Place the Gospel
Photo Credit: Pedro Szekely, Creative Commons Guest Post by Tom Rowley Heretical though the title of this essay sounds, there’s no need to warm up the tar or pluck the chickens. The heresy lies not here, but rather in a truncated Gospel, which has effectively dis-placed the good news of Jesus Christ. It’s time to
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Jonathan Wilson on Reclaiming the Doctrine of Creation
Jonathan R. Wilson is Pioneer McDonald Professor of Theology at Carey Theological College. Before joining the Carey faculty in 2006, he was a Professor of Theology and Ethics at Acadia Divinity College (2003-2006) and Professor of Religious Studies at Westmont College (1989-2003). A native of Oklahoma, he is ordained by Canadian Baptists and pastored in
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Preaching to the Affections
Guest Post by Rick McKinley When I first started preaching I spent a lot of time pointing out what we did wrong and what we should do right. This approach starts with the assumption that Jesus died for us, rose for us, and reigns for us, and if he did all that then we should
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Bonhoeffer as a Corrective Voice
One of the things I love about Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the corrective role his words seem to be within the current context of the American Church. In that vein, his writings can truly be called ‘prophetic.’ Bonhoeffer’s small book Life Together is a great example. To a culture consumed with individualism, consumerism, materialism and too often treats
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The Art of Complex
I have a friend named Tsh who is helping a lot of people with her new book Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World. Most of us need help simplifying our lives—from too much clutter, stuff, entertainment, commitments and a host of other consumeristic desires. The idea that
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How Jesus Handled Change
τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν. “All entities move and nothing remains still.” – Heraclitus (as quoted in Plato’s Cratylus) One of the constants in life is change. The pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus famously stated this saying, “No man ever steps in the same river twice.” Reality is in constant motion. The flow of
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