Cool updates on the Justice Conference for next year!! Nicholas Wolterstorff just committed to be one of the plenary speakers. Dr. Wolterstorff is a Christian philosopher who teaches at Yale and is considered one of the leading experts on justice and human rights. He travels the world speaking to conferences, governments and law enforcement bodies […]
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Here’s a little video of Mike & Danae Yankoski answering a question at Redux last Sunday. I thought they did a particularly good job of answering the question and arguing for balance in our approach to the material and spiritual focuses of church. (Make sure you watch the whole thing!!)
I’ve been getting asked a lot of questions lately from people outside of Antioch about the phrase Social Justice. It seems there is a lot of work to do in the unpacking of biblical and social justice. The So-Called Biblical Argument Against Social Justice The argument that gets made and that I’ve heard over the
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Is privilege real or imagined? It’s clear that issues of race and equality have come to the forefront in our nation’s consciousness. Every week yet another incident involving racial tension splashes across headlines and dominates our news feeds. Ken Wytsma is a white evangelical man from a conservative white evangelical world, and he is doing
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Redeeming How We Talk explores what the Bible has to say about that central aspect of life and relationships–conversation. Praise for Redeeming How We Talk We all crave connection. But ironically, we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about, or praying about, how our words and our other conversational tools work to draw us
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Taken from Tamara’s favorite devotional, Bread For the Resistance, by our friend Donna Barber. Copyright (c) 2019 by Donna Marie Barber. Published by InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com Donna Barber is the co-founder of The Voices Project, an organization that influences culture through training and promoting leaders of color. She is also the director of Champions Academy,
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Village Church is a multicultural community in Christ. Ethnically, we are one of the most diverse churches in Oregon, but our commitment to cultural diversity also extends across generations, from citizens to immigrants to refugees, and across multiple languages. We are not just multiethnic, but multicultural. This commitment is not something accidental or without purpose,
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve had many moments of anxiety during this crisis period of pivoting and reacting. Yes, our church is trying hard to deliver online services and to connect directly with our people, but in all of the long hours and heightened sense of urgency, I’m left feeling we’re missing something.
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Sometimes you get lucky. I was in Melbourne for The Justice Conference Australia when I first heard that The Myth of Equality had made Publishers Weekly’s list for Best Books of 2017. It was one of 5 books listed in the Religion genre. I’ve always considered myself more of an “ideas guy” than a writer,
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Ken Wytsma on The Myth of Equality Ken Wytsma is the founder of The Justice Conference, the global pastor of Antioch Church, and the president of Kilns College in Bend, Oregon. He is the author of Pursuing Justice, The Grand Paradox, and recently released, The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege. The
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