Toward a Relational Approach to Social Justice

Ashley Hicks White

Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy

Fall Convocation
September 7, 2017
Mark 12:28-34


If we do justice without love are we doing justice to God?  Listen to the address.

Restoring the Offender: What can the Community of Faith Do?

Kilen Gray
Dean of Students

February 17, 2016
2 Corinthians 5:17-20

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The silence of the church regarding domestic violence is done in collusion with the perpetrators of the violence.  Refusing to be silent leads to an acceptance of the truth.  The path to restoration is hard work that creates a new person in a new relationship with themselves, Christ, and the faith community.

A Life in Translation

Amy Plantinga Pauw
Henry P. Mobley Jr. Professor of Doctrinal Theology

October 6, 2015
Ruth 1:11-18;22

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Genesis 16

Elizabeth Johnson Walker

Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling

October 15, 2010—Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Genesis 16

1 Samuel 16-20

Domestic violence and God’s good intention for creation have lived in tragic tension for centuries. In the first family we are reminded that in a fit of jealousy and rage, Cain killed his own brother Abel. Domestic violence is a sin that separates and isolates victims from sources of value and meaning in God’s good creation. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.