Photo: Walter Brueggemann interviewed by Don Golden at The Justice Conference 2012 Blessed and humbled to receive the below review on The Grand Paradox from someone I respect and whose opinion I value greatly. Question: What do Soren Kierkegaard, C. S. Lewis, Abraham Heschel, Dwight Moody, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Evelyn Underhill and John Paul […]
I often get asked, why education? Why a Christian grad school focusing on theology, justice and leadership studies? Why sink time, energy and money into something like that—aren’t there enough schools out there? The answer is that education, and Kilns College specifically, is not just a project that takes time, energy and money; but, rather, it’s
This article was recently picked up by a syndicated blog – you can read the post here, or below. … While in seminary, I ran across the author Henri Nouwen, who articulated the tension—or paradox—of faith as well as anyone I have read. His answer, unlike most I have heard, does not whitewash the messiness
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Photo Credit: The World of Banksy Art Guest Post by Emily Hill This year I’m sensing and processing the season of advent in a way that I never have before. My soul is filled with mourning and grief over racial injustice in our individual lives and in our nation. The evidence and emotion in this
Photo Credit: Jon S, Creative Commons Guest Post by Todd Deatherage Some days I have to steel myself just to read the morning paper. Today’s front page includes a story about reputable scientists suggesting global warming trends are worse than previously thought. They are predicting that one-third of the western Antarctic ice shelf may be
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Photo Credit: Pete, Flickr Creative Commons Guest Post by Josh Butler We are the ones, not God, who unleash the destructive power of hell in the world. Many people think of hell as a place God creates to torture sinners. But in the biblical story, we are the authors of hell’s fury. On massive structural levels
Yesterday my friends Donna and Leroy Barber visited Antioch for a Q&A session on Ferguson and what it means for faith and race relations in America. They also stuck around for a conversation with students and others in the Kilns College community to discuss in greater depth the issues surrounding Ferguson and the deeper need
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Guest Post by Troy Jackson One of the most provocative songs of the 1960s is Paul Simon’s “The Sound of Silence.” The haunting lyrics, which marginalize “the words of the prophets” to “subway walls and tenement halls” are poignant when it comes to white Christian engagement in the pains and struggles of African Americans. When
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Ben Lowe is on staff with the Evangelical Environmental Network and serves as the national spokesperson for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action. Ben was raised a missionary kid in Southeast Asia and now lives in community in a refugee and immigrant neighborhood outside Chicago, where he ran for US Congress in 2010. He is a
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Paul Crouse is a former Antioch intern by way of Moody Bible Institute who is a good friend and has done a lot of art for The Justice Conference and Antioch over the last few years. He just blessed me with this new art (think Aslan) which is probably the coolest piece of art anyone
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