On this webinar, we will give you the tools to engage in hard conversations around race, politics and theology. Prioritizing relationship, we can stay rooted in our convictions while avoiding falling into the trap of unhelpful us/them and left/right binaries. Through it all, we believe moving into these conflicted spaces not only grows relationship, it forms us into more whole and healthy human beings.
You will walk away with tangible tools on how to have hard conversations from people who are practitioners and experts in these difficult spaces.
@jonhuckins
Jon Huckins is the Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project; a peacemaking training organization helping individuals and communities move toward conflict equipped to heal rather than to win. He writes for numerous publications including USAToday, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and RELEVANT, and has written two books of his own; his latest being Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community. His upcoming book, Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World, releases September 2017. Jon has a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in theology and ethics. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Jan, three daughters (Ruby, Rosie & Lou) and one son (Hank) where they co-lead an intentional Christian community seeking to live as a reconciling presence in their neighborhood of Golden Hill.
Connect with him on Twitter, Instagram or his personal blog jonhuckins.net
Jonathan Brooks serves as Senior Pastor of Canaan Community Church in the West Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As a firm believer in investing in the community you grew up in, Jonathan has a deep desire to impress this virtue on his congregation and community. Canaan provides youth development, holistic health options, college scholarships, art and music training and re-entry programming.
Pastah J, as he is affectionately called, is a sought after speaker, writer and artist. He has contributed to numerous blogs, articles and books and in Fall 2018, Jonathan is set to release his first book titled “Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods.” Jonathan was a recipient of the John M. Perkins Fellowship from Northern Seminary where he received a Master of Divinity in Christian Community Development. Jonathan and his wife, Micheal, have two beautiful girls, Jasmine and Jade, and reside in West Englewood just a few steps away from the church campus.
You can learn more at www.pastahj.com
Kristen Howerton is a licensed marriage and family therapist, mom of four children within four years via birth and adoption, and the founder of the blog Rage Against the Minivan where, in the midst of writing about the raw emotions and experience of motherhood, she is also a fierce advocate for social justice, orphan care, and the dismantling of systemic racism. Kristen’s experience as a family therapist and professor of psychology allows her to speak into parenting issues, as well as helping her to draw readers in by encouraging sharing and reflection in comments. Her blog is about authenticity – and readers return because of this relationship.
Kristen is also the co-host of two podcasts: Whypartisan, a weekly political recap that looks at the intersection of faith and policy, as well as Selfie, a podcast dedicated to exploring the mind, body and spirit aspects of self-care.
In addition to her own blog, Kristen is a regular contributor to Disney’s parenting site Babble, as well as to Huffington Post and Quiet Revolution. She has been featured on The View, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Headline News, CNN, and Good Day LA, and has been featured in numerous print publications. She is also a regular speaker on issues of race, diversity, adoption, and social media, and spent the last year working as the Director of Spiritual Development at The Hatchery LA.
Aaron Niequist is a liturgist, writer, and pastor in the Chicago area. After leading worship at Mars Hill Church (Grand Rapids, MI) and Willow Creek Church (Barrington, IL), he created A New Liturgy – a collection of modern liturgical worship recordings. He then curated a discipleship-focused, formational, ecumenical, practice-based community at Willow Creek called “The Practice”. Aaron recently finished a book called The Eternal Current: How a Practice-based Faith can Save us from Drowning, and continues to create resources to help others flesh it out. But that’s just job stuff. The best part of his life is his wife Shauna, and their sons Henry and Mac. Learn more at www.aaronniequist.com.
Facilitator
@jonhuckins
Jon Huckins is the Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project; a peacemaking training organization helping individuals and communities move toward conflict equipped to heal rather than to win. He writes for numerous publications including USAToday, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and RELEVANT, and has written two books of his own; his latest being Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community. His upcoming book, Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World, releases September 2017. Jon has a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in theology and ethics. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Jan, three daughters (Ruby, Rosie & Lou) and one son (Hank) where they co-lead an intentional Christian community seeking to live as a reconciling presence in their neighborhood of Golden Hill.
Connect with him on Twitter, Instagram or his personal blog jonhuckins.net
Panelists
Jonathan Brooks serves as Senior Pastor of Canaan Community Church in the West Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As a firm believer in investing in the community you grew up in, Jonathan has a deep desire to impress this virtue on his congregation and community. Canaan provides youth development, holistic health options, college scholarships, art and music training and re-entry programming.
Pastah J, as he is affectionately called, is a sought after speaker, writer and artist. He has contributed to numerous blogs, articles and books and in Fall 2018, Jonathan is set to release his first book titled “Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods.” Jonathan was a recipient of the John M. Perkins Fellowship from Northern Seminary where he received a Master of Divinity in Christian Community Development. Jonathan and his wife, Micheal, have two beautiful girls, Jasmine and Jade, and reside in West Englewood just a few steps away from the church campus.
You can learn more at www.pastahj.com
Kristen Howerton is a licensed marriage and family therapist, mom of four children within four years via birth and adoption, and the founder of the blog Rage Against the Minivan where, in the midst of writing about the raw emotions and experience of motherhood, she is also a fierce advocate for social justice, orphan care, and the dismantling of systemic racism. Kristen’s experience as a family therapist and professor of psychology allows her to speak into parenting issues, as well as helping her to draw readers in by encouraging sharing and reflection in comments. Her blog is about authenticity – and readers return because of this relationship.
Kristen is also the co-host of two podcasts: Whypartisan, a weekly political recap that looks at the intersection of faith and policy, as well as Selfie, a podcast dedicated to exploring the mind, body and spirit aspects of self-care.
In addition to her own blog, Kristen is a regular contributor to Disney’s parenting site Babble, as well as to Huffington Post and Quiet Revolution. She has been featured on The View, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Headline News, CNN, and Good Day LA, and has been featured in numerous print publications. She is also a regular speaker on issues of race, diversity, adoption, and social media, and spent the last year working as the Director of Spiritual Development at The Hatchery LA.
Aaron Niequist is a liturgist, writer, and pastor in the Chicago area. After leading worship at Mars Hill Church (Grand Rapids, MI) and Willow Creek Church (Barrington, IL), he created A New Liturgy – a collection of modern liturgical worship recordings. He then curated a discipleship-focused, formational, ecumenical, practice-based community at Willow Creek called “The Practice”. Aaron recently finished a book called The Eternal Current: How a Practice-based Faith can Save us from Drowning, and continues to create resources to help others flesh it out. But that’s just job stuff. The best part of his life is his wife Shauna, and their sons Henry and Mac. Learn more at www.aaronniequist.com.