John M. Perkins, Ph.D.

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Founder and President Emeritus of John and Vera Mae Perkins Foundation — Co-founder of Christian Community Development Association

Dr. John M. Perkins is the founder and president emeritus of the John and Vera Mae Perkins Foundation and co-founder of Christian Community Development Association. He has served in advisory roles under five U.S. presidents, is one of the leading evangelical voices to come out of the American civil rights movement, and is an author and international speaker on issues of reconciliation, leadership, and community development. For his tireless work he has received 16 honorary doctorates from universities including: Virginia University of Lynchburg, Wheaton College, Gordon College, Huntington College, Geneva College, Spring Arbor University, North Park College, and Belhaven College. In 2004 he partnered with Seattle Pacific University to launch the campus-based John Perkins Center for Reconciliation, Leadership Training, and Community Development.

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Count it All Joy: The Ridiculous Paradox of Suffering

We think of suffering as the worst of all evils. Our culture tells us to avoid it at all costs. But can suffering produce growth in us when we learn t...

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Kerby Anderson

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Kerby Anderson

Lazy Savings

Ursula von der Leyen is the President of the European Union. She was in the news the other day for saying that savings were “lazy.” That may have been an unfortunate translation, since I think it woul...

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Penna Dexter

Explaining NEET

A young conservative Anglican, who goes by the pseudonym Crier in the Wilderness, has an essay at Virtue Online that attempts to explain a category of young men who are not in a good place. They are N...

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