Complexifying Our Thinking About the Church in Public Life

EnVision: the Gospel, Politics, and the Future
Princeton University

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Immigration Colloquium: Advocacy and Best Practices

Princeton Theological Seminary

Rev. Luis Cortés, Julia Thorne, Patty Kupfer, and Belinda Passafaro shared about the complexity of immigration issues, emphasizing the damage done to families where one or both parents of U.S. citizens face deportation.

New Horizons in Christian Unity (panel)

National Workshop on Christian Unity
Chicago, IL

Compassion Forum

Presidential Candidate Compassion Forum
Messiah College - Grantham, PA

Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Eric Dyson

Broad Street Ministry

Among the many points Dyson covered in his reflection on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, a few pithy aphorisms stood out that I paraphrase here:

• King is often reduced to thirty-four words [of the "I Have a Dream" speech] written when he was thirty-four years old
  
• our society is intolerant of complexity and allergic to nuance
  
• justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public
  
• nationalists are people who can't make a distinction between love and their country"
  
• prophecy is not about gazing into the future but bringing visions into existence
  

Evangelicals, Ecumenism, and Emerging Questions

American Academy of Religion Mid-Atlantic Region meeting
New Brunswick, NJ

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Entrepreneurial Ecclesiological Narratives and the Unity Project

Joint Meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society and Society for Pentecostal Studies
Duke University

Ecclesiological Malleability as Ecumenical Horizon

On Being Christian Together: The Faith and Order Experience in the United States
Oberlin College