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Kathryn Schoon-Tanis

Kathryn Schoon-Tanis holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education and works in marketing while wrangling two daughters and an artist husband.

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For Our Daughters  

While this film doesn’t trace how segments of the church ended up with a culture of toxic masculinity and prevalent sexual abuse (there are resources for that on the film’s website), it does extend an implied call for accountability. What we see in For Our Daughters is case after case, story after story, of women reporting abuse and their abuser getting away with it, often in a very public manner. Men in pastoral leadership roles maintained their positions even after…
Kathryn Schoon-Tanis
January 15, 2025
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The Seamless Life: A Tapestry of Love & Learning Worship & Work

Even though the idea of proximate has remained part of my thinking and living for the last twenty years, I confess that I have often been tempted to give up. If I haven’t yet lost my dynamic of hope, I think I am in the process of losing it, given the fractured and violent world we currently inhabit. So it seems this book came to me at just the right time, at a time when I needed to, as Garber…
Kathryn Schoon-Tanis
November 22, 2023
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Our Burning Streets

Race & Place RACE & PLACE: HOW URBAN GEOGRAPHY SHAPES THE JOURNEY TO RECONCILIATION DAVID P. LEONG INTERVARSITY PRESS, 2017 $16 (PAPERBACK) 208 PAGES The day I finished reading this book was the day 15-year-old unarmed Jordan Edwards was shot and killed by a policeman’s rifle. This death, like the long string of deaths of young black men (and women) that came before Edwards’, the current U.S. presidential administration’s executive orders regarding immi-gration as well as other policies focused on race and…
Kathryn Schoon-Tanis
February 28, 2018