Robert Kraig is on the Board of Directors of the JLA Foundation and is a grandson of James Luther Adams. He serves as the Executive Director, Citizen Action of Wisconsin. A recent article of Robert’s was featured in progressive news magazine In These Times. How Progressives Can Counter ‘Tough-on Crime’ Messaging Crime plays on primal emotions. We need deep engagement to transform people’s thinking. He also writes in a new progressive rural magazine, Barn Raiser, […]
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James Luther Adams Foundation www.jameslutheradams.org Board of Trustees: George Kimmich Beach, president (gkbeach@aol.com, 540-948-5317); Rob Packenham, secretary; Norman Faramelli, treasurer; Judith Deutsch, Robert Kraig, James Stillman, Frederick Wooden. Advisory Committee: Richard Boeke, J. Ronald Engel, William Johnson Everett, Galen Guengerich, Doris Hunter, Michael Hogue, Theodore Kraig, Scotty McLennan, Susan Ritchie, Sid Slobodkin, Jeffrey Speaks. Web and Communications Manager: Rob Packenham rpackenham@gmail.com; Web consultant: Christopher Walton February 10, 2022 The Rev. Dr. Stephen C. Mott […]
Join us for the 2021 James Luther Adams Forum on Religion and Society with speaker Dr. Charles Mathewes, Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia. Professor Mathewes will speak on “The Future of American Christianity after the Religious Right.” DATE, TIME, & LOCATION Friday, October 29, 2021, 3 p.m. ET, 110 Monroe Hall on the Grounds of University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Can’t attend in person? A video recording of the Forum […]
Some highlights of recent activity on the JLAF website: The JLAF 2021 Forum Date is announced; a new post from George Kimmich Beach “The Jacob’s Ladder of an Examined Faith”; John A. Buehrens writes on “How James Luther Adams Became Important to Me and Why He Still Is,” and JLA’s historic home video “No Authority But From God” is available now to view. JLAF 2021 Forum Date Announced The 2021 James Luther Adams Forum has […]
The 2021 James Luther Adams Forum has been scheduled for October 29, 2021. Date and Location: Friday, October 29, 2021, 2-5 p.m. ET, Wilson Hall 301, on the Grounds of University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. The Forum will also be broadcast online (details TBD). See the 2021 Forum announcement for speaker and details. The Forum was postponed from the previously announced dates in November, 2020 and April 2021. The above date is the new date, […]