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Timothy King

Timothy is a graduate of North Park University in Chicago with degrees in both theology and philosophy. After graduation, he worked for the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago. Tim ran campaigns around food access, school funding reform, ex-offender issues, and youth homelessness. He developed and implemented organizing curriculums for high school to graduate level classes. After a brief stint as a campaign consultant, Timothy came on staff with Sojourners in 2008, where he served as Chief Strategy Officer until 2015. Timothy has been a guest on many radio shows and podcasts and his perspectives and work have been featured on ABC News, the BBC, TIME, CNN, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, and the Daily Beast, and he was a contributor to the 2014 book Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels. Timothy writes regularly about the intersection of faith and politics, and, most recently about his return to the family farm in New Hampshire. Read more of his work at Almost Home (www.timothymichaelking.com).

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Religion Dispatches
If religious kitsch is a guilty pleasure, one of my favorite indulgences is a graphic that depicts a school of ichthus—the simple outline of a fish that is was an early symbol for followers of Christ…
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Religion Dispatches
Last November, I returned to my family’s farm in New Hampshire to celebrate Thanksgiving and help build a “sugar shack” with my brother. The “shack” was to be a small wooden structure that would house…
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Religion Dispatches
The Leftovers: Hot HBO Drama or Hot New Religious Trend?
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