Integration is more than a buzzword here at 天美视频. In fragmented times, when our soundbite-driven culture so often doubles down on that which divides us, we are called back again and again to the enduring hope in the movement of God and the fierce conviction that it is building bridges鈥攏ot walls鈥攖hat will restore us to who we are meant to be.
That鈥檚 part of why we were so refreshed and energized by our time with Dr. Esther Meek at our 2018 Stanley Grenz Lecture Series. With the assertion that 鈥渇ragmented knowing has fragmented us,鈥� Dr. Meek challenged us to pursue an exuberant, loving relationship with reality鈥攐ne that does not deny the void or despair over it, but stares full-faced into the realities of brokenness and dis-integration because we know something of beauty and goodness, and we believe that the healing work of God is not yet complete.
鈥淚n a broken and modernist world, fragmentation happens. It is even celebrated. But human knowing and reality are integrative. […] We seek integration because we need it as breath.鈥�
Below you can watch the full video of Dr. Meek鈥檚 lecture on 鈥淟oving Reality,鈥� followed by her vibrant panel discussion with Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Chelle Stearns (beginning at ). May Esther鈥檚 words offer renewed inspiration to lean into that which is not yet known, marked by a posture of openness and an eye toward truth and goodness.