Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak to Speak Next Week from Saint Paul School of Theology of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, United States for Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak to Speak Next Week from Saint Paul School of Theology of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, United States for Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Message from the Executive Vice President
Greetings to friends of Saint Paul! The heart of Saint Paul is the classroom, and the

pulse of our mission is found in the academic and practical learning experiences that form students for diverse ministries and vocations. To witness the insight and discovery generated by students is inspiring and enlivening. You are invited to be part of the excitement-through a story and an event.
First the story. Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak's book, Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid: The Challenge to Prophetic Resistance is one text in a course about theology from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Students are working online this week and are guided by resources about theology across the African continent and about Apartheid and post-Apartheid life in South Africa. Boesak's text creates an occasion for online discussion.
Dr. Boesak proposes that the world needs a kairos consciousness, a prophetic and truth-telling alertness to the critical moments when we should see, understand, and act wherever suffering and injustice threaten humanity. He also speaks about kairos theology, an expression of resistance to injustice, which he calls global Apartheid. Students are already engaged in thoughtful online discussion about God's work in history and God's work through the faithful, which is the source of Christian resistance.
Second the event. You are invited the Saint Paul Wayne E. Drake Peace Lecture to hear Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at 

7:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 11, in the sanctuary at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. Boesak's experience as a theologian and clergyperson in South Africa informs his lecture entitled Disrupting the Ways of Evil: Following the Ways of Love, Peace, and Justice.
Dr. Boesak will also be preaching in chapel at 11:07 a.m. in Wesley Covenant

Chapel. Participants are also invited to an afternoon class specially prepared for them and to a dinner before the evening event. Please visit our website for details and to register for the class and dinner. Even if you can't be with us in Leawood, the lecture will be live-streamed atwww.spst.edu/video and you can be part of the event.
You are always well at Saint Paul School of Theology, and we look forward to including you in the discovery of God's work in the world.

Dr. Nancy R. Howell
Executive Vice President

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