Guest Post by Melissa McCreery As parents and caregivers around the country are in the midst of back-to-school shopping – stressing over the latest trend or which electronic device to purchase – it can be hard to keep perspective. I’ve talked to a number of parents over the last few weeks frustrated by the long […]
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it long. – Alexis de Tocqueville
Lisa Sharon Harper is a founding member and board member of Evangelicals4Justice and is currently Director of Mobilizing for Sojourners. She is the author of Left, Right & Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics and Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican or Democrat. KW: In what ways is racism still an issue in our country? LSH: It’s
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Excitement is continuing to build for the new academic year at Kilns College! I’ll be sharing more in the coming month but right now I want to encourage you to mark your calendar for our Fall Kick-Off on September 8th from 6:30-8pm. This year’s guest speaker will be Dr. Reggie Williams, Professor of Christian Ethics at McCormick
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Nicole Baker Fulgham is the founder and president of The Expectations Project, a nonprofit organization that develops & mobilizes faith-motivated advocates who help close the academic achievement gap in public schools. She is the author of Educating All God’s Children: What Christians Can – and Should – Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids.
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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Adapted in part from Chapter 5 of Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] What do we mean when we talk about love? A great deal of our understanding of love comes from media— movies, songs, television shows, and so on—and from nearly every popular representation of love we can generalize
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There are many things Bend, Oregon is known for: we’ve got more brew pubs per capita than anywhere in the states, we were dubbed “dogtown USA” last year for having some 27,000 dogs for 80,000 people, there are more mountain bike miles than any other geographical area this size and this week we were just
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Mark and Lisa Scandrette are co authors of the book, FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters most. Lisa is an educator and textile artist and Mark is the founding director of ReIMAGINE: A Center for Integrative Christian Practice based in San Francisco. A sought after teacher he is also the author of
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Rachel Goble is President of The SOLD Project – an organization that works to prevent human trafficking in Thailand. Rachel graduated from Westmont College in 2005 with a Bachelors in Business and Marketing, then worked in youth ministry before heading back to school at Fuller Seminary to pursue a Masters in Intercultural Studies with a
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