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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (January 14, 2010) –Jim Palmer, a renowned author and church planter, will speak at Milligan College on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 11 a.m. in Milligan’s Seeger Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.
With his widely acclaimed first book, “Divine Nobodies,” Palmer has earned recognition as one of the next great spiritual writers. His story offers an inspiring and profound glimpse into life with God beyond institutional church and conventional religion.
He recently published a second book, “Wide Open Spaces.” Palmer is also the founder of the Pilgrimage Project, an initiative encouraging the freedom to imagine, dialogue, live and express new possibilities for being an authentic Christian.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in speech communications from East Tennessee State University and a master of divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago. He then began a two-year pastoral ministry at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago. Later, he moved to Nashville, Tenn., to assist with a church plant there.
Palmer left pastoral ministry to devote himself to working with abused and abandoned children. He served as executive director of YMCA Community Action Programs (Y-CAP), a non-profit organization providing comprehensive intervention programs for at-risk children and their families. He also served as the U.S. Director of Education for International Justice Mission, a Christian human rights organization based out of Washington, D.C. Based on these encounters, Palmer writes and speaks to audiences about the need for Christians to become aware and involved in bringing rescue to victims of oppression throughout the world.
For more information, contact Nathan Flora, campus minister at Milligan, at 423.461.8748, or email nflora@milligan.edu.