Equipping Christians to transform human conflict and cultivate social renewal in our time.
LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS
Apply to the 2024-2025 Ideos Leaders Fellowship
“Dialogue Lab: America” selected for the 2024 Better Together National Film Festival
MEDIA & CONTENT
Ideos Fellow, MiDian Holmes, Receives 2024 My Brother’s Keeper Alliance - Denver Award
HIGHLIGHTS
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Who We Are
Ideos Institute is a growing community of Christians desiring to foster unity and reconciliation amidst escalating division. We span age groups and demographics, and are actively concerned about bridging divides in our communities and congregations.
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Ideos is a faith-based, nonprofit, nonpartisan institute working to advance a redemptive, evidence-based framework for conflict transformation and social renewal. As such, we equip visionary Christian leaders to effectively advance their mission and create human flourishing for all.
Download Ideos Institute’s mid-year impact report to learn more about how Ideos is making an impact in communities and congregations around the U.S.
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“Why Ideos? Why Now? Why Empathy? Why Justice? The only one of those questions that actually makes any sense is why Ideos? The only way forward that’s about us (and not win-lose, you-vs-me) will require that we see and understand each other in order to join together to see a new kind of joint future.
Dave Evans
Author, Co-Founder, Stanford Life Design Lab
Venture Partner at Praxis Labs
“This cohort has profoundly transformed my understanding of empathy, particularly in relation to the teachings of Jesus. Through engaging with fellow cohort members and exploring the intersection of empathy and faith, I have come to realize that empathy is not just a virtue to be admired, but indeed a fundamental aspect of the way of Jesus.”
MiDian Holmes
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Epitome of Black Excellence & Partnership
“As I pursue a holistic understanding of Biblical justice and holy, action-paired love for my neighbor, The Way of Empathy gives me context and a foundation to move forward."
Lauren Daniels
Founder, Plant Relationships
Propagation Manager, ECHO International
“In my denominational and grassroots role, I see the importance of church leaders needing to grow in empathic intelligence for themselves and their communities for the church to be equipped and ready for the changes ahead.”
Sue Park-Hur
Co-Director, ReconciliAsian
Director of Racial/Ethnic Engagement, Mennonite Church USA
“I am so thankful for the opportunity that Ideos Institute has provided me and for the positive impact that it is having on my life both as an individual and in my ministry."
Anthony Jones
Student, Princeton Seminary
Interim Youth Director, Bethany Presbyterian Church
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