Theme: Jesus as a Moral Stranger: A Conversation about the Jesus We (Might) Know Keynote Speaker: Dr. Reggie Williams Dr. Reggie Williams, Revised Edition 2021 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (Claremont, CA) May 12th, 2022 Festival Schedule: 12:30 Lunch Commemorating Dr. Glen Stassen 1:45 Keynote Presentation: Dr. Reggie Williams 2:45 Panel of Interfaith Respondents: Rev. Lara [...]
In Memoriam: Javier Garcia
Javier Garcia Dr. Javier Garcia, died on June 19th, 2021, in a surfing accident on the Oregon coast at the age of 34. Javier served on the IBS-ELS board since 2017. He wrote Recovering the Ecumenical Bonhoeffer: Thinking after the Tradition (Lexington Books, 2019) and was working on his second Bonhoeffer book. Dr. Garcia served [...]
Ethics After Devastation
Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation Q: We’re excited to talk about your new book on Bonhoeffer! This book grew out of your doctoral research at the University of Chicago so we know many years of work went into it. Going back to the beginning, what initially drew you to Bonhoeffer’s theology as a topic [...]
Becoming Simple and Wise
Becoming Simple and Wise: Moral Discernment in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Vision of Christian Ethics. Joshua A. Kaiser. Eugene OR: Pickwick Pub , 2015. ISBN: 978-1-62032-741-8. $24.00 Straightforward and tightly argued, Joshua Kaiser’s Becoming Simple and Wise is a significant contribution to studies of Bonhoeffer’s ethics. In this volume he attends to the often problematic tensions in Bonhoeffer’s [...]