During times of deepening polarization, increasing anxiety, and ongoing chaos, it can seem everyone is saying something to no avail. Are we listening to one another? Are we listening for shared values? Growing an understanding of one another? Or are we reacting from our own triggers and concerns? During this webinar, we will discuss how […]
The Center for Transforming Engagement is excited to extend an invitation to its second annual Reimagine Preaching Conference. One Table Preaching: Making Room for Every Voice This is a one-day laboratory for pastors, lay preachers, and ministry communicators who kneel at the pulpit each week between clashing world-views. Through keynote storytelling, scripture-rooted workshops, and hands-on […]
What if there is more beyond traditional church and talk therapy models? Join theologians, Dr. Dwight Friesen and Dr. Joel Kiekintveld, in conversation with psychologist, Dr. Paul Hoard, as they explore the question of therapeutic models beyond church pews and the therapy couch. How do we use the transformative tools of psychology and theology, but also not get […]
The purity movement of the 1990s is often remembered as a grassroots response to the sexual revolution—a return to “biblical values” in the face of cultural permissiveness. Yet this framing obscures purity culture’s deeper roots in a century-long evangelical negotiation with modernism. This webinar traces how American neo-evangelicalism, born from the fundamentalist-modernist conflicts of the […]