Leroy and I were recently on a trip to Washington DC and discussed the early church and the faith community at Antioch for a blog post he was working on. When his post came out, I thought it would be fun to post it here as well! ———————————————- Guest Post by Leroy Barber As I […]
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Photo Credit: Justin Tung, Creative Commons Guest Post by Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Two weeks ago, I spent the day with a dozen other men—nine black, three white—discussing racism, black men, and the Church. Appreciative as I was for the invitation by Leroy Barber and Kilns College, I was a bit hesitant. Privileged by society because
Reggie Williams is an Assistant Professor of Christianity at McCormick Theological Seminary, in Chicago, Illinois. His research consists of the analysis of the intermingling of race and religion from the modern colonial period to the Harlem Renaissance. Particularly, Christology within the Harlem Renaissance literary movement yields evidence of a prophetic Christianity that can guide peaceful
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Thanks to former Antioch Intern, Sam Palencia, for some pretty cool hand-drawn memes for #TheGrandParadox. Sam is an art student at Cal Baptist and she is pretty much the bomb. If you’d like to see the set of 5, or other memes and media resources for the book, visit the media resources post here.
Guest Post by Linda VanVoorst Kids ask lots of questions. They are curious about seemingly everything! Their curious little minds can’t help but question. Teaching kids to live the way God desires also prompts many questions. Often, the answers seem paradoxical. Imagine a young boy asking his dad “Why do you work so hard, dad?”.
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Guest Post by Sam Adams When we were thinking up possible classes to offer at Kilns College this past Jan-term I came up with the idea to offer a course on the Apocalypse, that is, the book of Revelation. Capitalizing on the cultural fascination with everything “post-apocalyptic” from zombies to dystopian fantasies, the timing seemed
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Life is messy. God is mysterious. Faith is still possible <–Tweet that Today is the official launch day for The Grand Paradox: The Messiness of Life, the Mystery of God, and the Necessity of Faith. Thank you to all who supported this project… from those who helped in crafting it within the Antioch community to the
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Rick McKinley serves as Lead Pastor of Imago Dei Community. He and his wife, Jeanne, and their four kids moved to Portland, Oregon in October of 2000 to plant the church. Since then, Imago Dei has been voted one of the Top 25 Most Innovative Churches in the Country by Outreach Magazine and Portland Monthly Magazine
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This blog post recently appeared on the World Vision blog — it’s a topic that I get asked about a lot so I thought I’d re-post it. ——————————————————————————————————————————– I often use the phrase “Theology of Justice.” In fact, it was one of the founding ideas and goals of The Justice Conference—to discuss and promote a theological
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Greetings! Thank you for your interest in The Grand Paradox: The Messiness of Life, the Mystery of God and the Necessity of Faith. This book represents many of the lessons I’ve learned, experiences that have shaped me, and ideas on faith that I want to leave to my own children as well as others with the
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