March 2011
15 posts
'Author/humanitarian Heuertz to speak at NWC... →
ORANGE CITY, Iowa – Chris Heuertz, author and executive director of Word Made Flesh, will be the keynote speaker at Northwestern College’s 21st annual College Leadership Conference on April 1 and 2. Heuertz will give two addresses, and two workshop sessions will be offered.
“The theme this year is Following Faithfully, Leading Justly,” said Marlon Haverdink, Northwestern’s director of service...
COUNTER CULTURAL
It’s important to realize that Jesus’ message was being...
– Adapted from Radical Grace: Daily Meditations, by Richard Rohr, p. 371, day 385 (via phileena)
Special Invitation to 'Bearing Witness to Hope in...
We work to recognize the divine imprint in all humanity, then together we are all converted to God. I’m not bringing a poor kid with me to Christ. I’m following their journey to the places in God’s heart that break in the face of such suffering. —Chris Heuertz
The Ministry of Reconciliation in a Divided World
June 6 – 11, 2011
Duke Divinity School Summer Institute
presented by the Duke...
'The Callousing of Morality' :: an Excerpt from... →
A few years ago, a series of commercials for a shampoo product saturated television programming. Each ad portrayed a woman experiencing sexual ecstasy as she washed her hair in the shower. Quite the product—or, at least, quite a promise.
The disconnect between our ordinary experience of hair washing and the implicit claims of the commercial is partly what made some of us laugh at the ad. When we...
Freestyle’n with the amazing Father Emmanuel Katongole, author of ‘Mirror to the Church,’ ‘Reconciling All Things,’ and ‘The Sacrifice of Africa;’ Co-Director/Co-Founder of the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School; and Word Made Flesh Board Member.
From the Archives :: 'The Echo of a Saint: Signs... →
From the Archives: I always LOVE LOVE LOVE hearing @Phileena reflect on her book, Pilgrimage of a Soul.