RLC Network Kelley Nikondeha

Kelley Nikondeha

http://www.communitiesofhope.tv

Kelley Nikondeha is a practical theologian hungry for the New City. She is the co-director and chief storyteller for Communities of Hope, a community development enterprise in Burundi. She and her husband co-founded Amahoro Africa, an African conversation for African thinkers and practitioners. She is currently writing A Sacrament of Belonging: Graces for Transformation in a Fractured World to be published by Wm. B. Eerdmans in 2017. Kelley is the theologian in residence for SheLoves Magazine and a team member for The Simply Jesus Gathering. Kelley is steeped in bi-cultural living with her husband, Claude, who is a Burundian social entrepreneur. She is the mother of two curious, kind and energetic 11-year-old kids. She lives between Arizona and Burundi. She’s known to be ecclesiastically promiscuous, a connoisseur of pesto and a devotee of Walter Brueggemann.

Make Israel Great Again

Kelley Nikondeha

August 29, 2016

Politics, Theology

Jesus leaned toward inclusion as an agenda for restoration and greatness, not fear or exclusion.

Our God Is Not the Stone-Throwing Kind

Kelley Nikondeha

April 13, 2015

Family and Parenting, Theology

Our God overflows with forgiveness, even under the most extreme circumstances. We are learning together that the God we believe in isn’t the stone-throwing kind.

Adoption Lament

Kelley Nikondeha

November 25, 2014

General

As adopted ones we learn that everything, even relinquishment, can be redeemed. But amid redemption we remember the lost ones, grieve the injustices and lament the brokenness.