Scot McKnight is Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary, in Lombard Illinois. He and Kris have been married for over 41 years, they have two children and two grandchildren. Scot is an author of more than fifty books including the recent Kingdom Conspiracy and A Fellowship of Differents: Showing the World God’s Design for Life […]
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Saturday night I had the privilege of being at one of the best fundraising galas that I’ve ever been to. Melissa McCreery and the team at Kilns College put on a fantastic event in Sunriver at the historic Great Hall with some of the most beautiful timber as structural support and roofing, and with one
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Guest Post by John Sowers When I finished my doctorate in Boston, my head was full of ideas. I wanted to do something to help fatherless kids. Fatherlessness was crushing my close friends and my generation. And I see it every day. In blogs, tweets, and movies. The other day, LeBron James tweeted about how
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Two years ago this May I traveled to Hong Kong for the first time in my life. It’s an amazing city with as much diversity as anywhere in the world (and more skyscrapers than anywhere in the world). I was being hosted by friends at The Vine Church in the Wanchai district of Hong Kong
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” This statement is attributed to Nelson Mandela, and it describes why, in 2008, we founded Kilns College in Bend, Oregon. So we can also say, Education is really Important to Pursuing Justice Kilns is a unique startup—a community of learners united
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Guest Post by Rev. Peter Goodwin Heltzel “Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. For you have spent
A. J. Swoboda (PhD, University of Birmingham) teaches theology, biblical studies, and Christian history at George Fox Evangelical Seminary in Portland, Oregon. A. J. started and serves Theophilus Church in urban Portland. He is the author of Messy and is the coauthor of Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology and the recently released A Glorious Dark — a book that embraces the tension between
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Guest Post by Justin Kron Most people have heard of the tradition of Spring Cleaning. Its origin is most likely associated with Jewish people who would thoroughly clean out their homes and their diet of leaven (anything made with yeast) prior to the festival of Passover; a holiday that commemorates the exodus of the Israelite
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Often God blesses us by giving us what He knows we need to live effectively and fulfill the calling He has for us. Both Lewis and Tolkien have interesting ways of expressing this in their two famous book series, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings. In The Lion, the Witch and
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Photo Credit: Robert Martinez, Creative Commons Guest Post by Leroy Barber The Justice Conference is meant to foster deep conversations on the things that matter to the heart of God. It seems that in today’s world the conversation on race seems to be getting lost and I am not sure this is a good. In Michelle Alexander’s
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