Laura Barringer

Nov 4, 2024 | converge.education | Laura Barringer

Allow me to first introduce myself and share a small part of my personal story because it––and its resulting connection to the good folks of Converge––is an unusual one. I am a full-time kindergarten teacher who accidentally became an author of two books, one of which became an unexpected bestseller. You read that correctly. I did not plan to become an author. I was trained as an elementary educator at Wheaton College and I spend my days in the joyous albeit chaotic presence of five-year-olds.

Oct 22, 2024 | scotmcknight.substack.com | Sarah Klingler |Scot McKnight |Laura Barringer

By Sarah Bucy KlinglerThe title of chapter 7 in Heather Matthew’s Confronting Sexism in the Churchimmediately grabbed my attention: “Politics, Power, Pornography, and the Perpetuation of Sexism.” Wow! Take that in for a moment. Each one of those words in and of themselves packs a punch, but taken together they serve as a breathtaking indictment of some of the issues behind the misogyny far too many women face in Christian spaces.

Mar 15, 2024 | laurabarringer.net | Scot McKnight |Laura Barringer |Laura More

The Priorities, Practices, and Powers That Can Transform Your Church Into a Tov CultureBy Scot McKnight and Laura BarringerPhotos of Tov credit: Ann VoskampForming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes HealingBy Scot McKnight and Laura BarringerThe Jesus Creed for ChildrenBy Scot McKnight and Laura BarringerBooks that stayed in my heart and my head long after I put them back on the shelf.... The Making of Biblical Womanhood

Mar 3, 2024 | beyondproductions.regfox.com | Kevin Holland |Laura Barringer |Michael Burns |Neil Trollip

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Sep 25, 2023 | denisonforum.org | Scot McKnight |Laura Barringer |Jim Denison |Mark Legg

Oak Hills Church began simply and modestly in 1984 with seventeen people in a strip mall in suburban Folsom, California. Over the next six years, the church grew to about 200 in weekly attendance, and by 1997 the church grew to an average attendance of 1,700. In Renovation of the Church, founding pastor Kent Carlson describes Oak Hills’ rapid growth in the 1990s: “It was exhilarating and intoxicating.