L’Abri Rochester

The Transformative Power of Art: Music. Margie Haack

The Transformative Power of Art: Music - Margie Haack  - With Denis Haack, and featuring Karen Choi Interview and Music. Lecture from 2017 L'ABRI Rochester Conference - The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures https://www.rochesterlabriconferences.org Ransom Fellowship's Karen Choi Blog post https://ransomfellowship.org/article/karen-choi-paper-birch-2012/ Karen Choi Website https://karenchoimusic.com

Transformation of the City: Lessons from Utrecht. - Wim Rietkerk - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Transformation of the City: Lessons from Utrecht. - Wim Rietkerk - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures The lecture is From the 2017 Rochester L'Abri Conference; the speaker is from Dutch L'Abri In 1971, Wim and Greta helped found the Dutch L’Abri. Since then they have led the work in Holland.

Cultural Transformation: A Proposed Model - Bob Osburn - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures

Cultural Transformation: A Proposed Model - Bob Osburn - 2017 Conference Highlights: The Power of God's Word to Transform Cultures   A Senior Fellow with Wilberforce International Institute, which he founded in 2009, Bob Osburn trains international students as redemptive change agents and writes and teaches about international development, comparative worldviews, corruption, education policy, and wealth creation. For seven years he taught courses on religion and educational policy and religion and international development at the University of Minnesota, and currently teaches courses with The New International University and Wilberforce International Institute. He has a PhD in comparative and international development education from the University of Minnesota, a ThM from Dallas Seminary, and a BA from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Taming the Beast: Can We Bridle the Culture of Corruption? (2016) and, most recently, Developing Redemptive Change Agents: Discipleship That Helps Nations Flourish Rather Than Flounder (2021). Bob and Susan have been married for 49 years, are the parents of four sons, and grandparents to 13.

Corruption, Foreign Aid and International Development - Bob Osburn - Friday Night Lecture - November 21st

This lecture explains why corruption is so rampant in the international aid sector, tracing much of the problem to faulty diagnoses and remedies rooted in naturalistic and postmodern worldviews. Dr. Bob Osburn, who has worked in international student and academic campus ministry for 40 years and has authored Taming the Beast: Can We Bridle the Culture of Corruption?, recommends a rejection of Christian sentimentalism and a simultaneous fulsome embrace of the Christian worldview in order to bridle corruption in the international aid sector while also enhancing international development outcomes centered on human flourishing.

Medical Homicide and Perverse Incentives in Global Perspective - Kirk Allison - Friday Night Lecture - November 14th

This talk considers the involvement of medical professionals in intentionally lethal acts in several historical and contemporary contexts (beyond abortion or medical experimentation under National Socialism). Contexts include medicalized capital punishment (from 18th C. France to 21st C. Florida); assisted suicide and euthanasia (from Hippocratic proscription to contemporary prescriptions); transplantation (forced organ harvesting in totalitarian China / the intersection of euthanasia and transplantation among European liberal democracies), as well as, oddly and astonishingly, medical lethality as a backstop solution for failed housing policy in Canada! In economic terms, a 'perverse' incentive accomplishes the opposite of the stated intent. But, a morally or spiritually perverse incentive may also fulfill intent. When medical(ized) lethality is normalized, 'the trouble with normal is it always gets worse' (B. Cockburn) - including for the coherence of medicine per se.   Kirk C Allison, PhD, MS directed the Program in Human Rights and Health at the U of M School of Public Health from 2007-2016 and taught in the Health Humanities Program of the College of Saint Scholastica from 2017-2025. (Previously he served as Chair of the American Public Health Association's Ethics Special Primary Interest Group and testified on forced organ harvesting in China before a U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee).