Reconciliation Discipleship Resources
SPU Just Mercy Screening Resources
Psalm 27:13 Breath Prayer
2 Chronicles 15 Blessing
Franciscan Blessing Guided Prayer & Devotion
Video and audio
SPU’s Vision of Radical Reconciliation: SPU’s School of Theology is partnering with other SPU constituents and people such as the Rev. Dr. John Perkins to live into our vision of being a grace-filled community that practices radical reconciliation.
Video
YouTube: Explore the John Perkins Center playlist on YouTube.
Then-director Tali Hairston interviews Allan Boesak, liberation theologian and apartheid activist, and Curtiss Paul DeYoung, professor of reconciliation studies, at Bethel University (Nov. 11, 2012).
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The Perkins Center Lecture Series Fall Forum with Allan Boesak, PhD (November 1, 2012).
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Taproot Theatre’s co-founder Scott Nolte and then-Perkins Center director Tali Hairston tell the story of The Whipping Man and the Eighth Annual Perkins Lecture Series and Reconciliation Summit, in this interview on KING FM Arts Channel (April 15, 2013). (Audio/video no longer available.)
iTunesU: For more video and audio from the John Perkins Center at SPU, visit the Center on iTunesU.
In the News
Paintings by Charles Ethan Porter donated to the John Perkins Center at Seattle Pacific University were featured on KCPQ TV (April 19, 2016). Video
“Reconciling Differences”
The Christian Examiner on the work of the John Perkins Center at SPU (Nov. 11, 2011).
“Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk Awkwardly About Race”
The Stranger reflects on race, specifically whiteness, in the Seattle context after the “Neighbors and Strangers” event with Taproot Theatre (Aug. 31, 2011).
Documentary
Watch the trailer for the original documentary, Let Justice Roll On: The Life and Legacy of John M. Perkins. Receive a copy in purchase of Dr. Perkins resources through the Perkins Foundation. Or contact perkinscenter@spu.edu for more information on obtaining a DVD.