Learning from Prison Inmates, Part II
This is the second of a two-part blog post on what I learned from teaching Christian prison literature to inmates of two Washington State correctional facilities, inmates who self-identified as “religious” or “spiritual,” though not all as explicitly or conventionally “Christian.”
Lectio: Socioeconomic Reconciliation
Assistant Professor of Missiology David Leong recently wrote a Lectio on the overall topic of reconciliation — in particular, the concept of new creation. The text he focused on was Luke 4, where the gospel is preached with a particular emphasis on the social and economic order of the day being flipped on its head.
Seminary Student Spotlight: Kelsie Job
This is Kelsie: Hear how Kelsie chose to attend seminary at SPS after her time as an undergrad at SPU and her ultimate goal of becoming a professor.
![A note from Dean Doug Strong: “In the wake of events in Charlottesville, Michael Eric Dyson has written this convicting challenge: ‘Now is the time for every decent white American to prove he or she loves this country by actively speaking out against the scourge this bigotocracy [white supremacy emboldened by the rhetoric of political leaders] represents. If such heinous behavior is met by white silence, it will cement the perception that as long as most white folk are not immediately at risk, then all is relatively well. Yet nothing could be further from the truth and nothing could more clearly declare the moral bankruptcy of our country.’ I pray that we will heed Dyson’s call to action.”](http://blog.spu.edu/sandbox/files/2014/11/sps-blog-social1.jpg)