Below is a fascinating and provocative video on the nature of creativity and the challenges to modern education in a rapidly changing world. If the British accent of Sir Ken Robinson or the topic don’t get you, the hand-drawn illustrations are worth it alone! Enjoy.
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Photo Credit: Yann Gar, Creative Commons Guest Post by Jer Swigart I had just gotten off a call with the White House and several Universities in which they briefed us on the failure of the most recent peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. The conversation quickly evolved to the violent outcomes that occur when leaders wield power
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If I’m being really honest with myself — something I try to do from time to time — sometimes I don’t like women very much. Now I know what you’re all thinking. Um, but aren’t you a woman? Yes, I am. And while I like myself just fine (more or less) and I like my
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Forgiveness. What a tired word. It lacks energy. It sounds like it has a “hmphh” in it. It lands like a thud. For Americans, who love everything to be moving forward—new stuff, exciting and heroic stuff—forgiveness sounds about as exciting as going to the library. It feels old. It looks backward. It’s slowing down to
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One of the main things I try to teach when I’m speaking on a theology of justice is that justice isn’t just something we do, rather we’re supposed to become just and righteous people who do just and righteous things. Somehow in our fast-paced, modern culture we can get overly focused on the adventure or
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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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“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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Melissa McCreery and Tamara Wytsma by the wall dividing Israel and Gaza in Netiv Ha’Asara. Guest Post by Melissa McCreery I wrote the prayer below while sitting on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, reflecting on a week filled with some of the most uplifting conversations and experiences, as well as some of the most devastating,
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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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