About Kurt Willems

I served as a youth pastor and in adult ministries for a total of seven years.  Currently, I am discerning a possible call to plant a church in the Northwest (2012) and have gone back to school full time to finish a Masters of Divinity at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary.  For the past couple of years I have been active in the ministry of blogging, which began as a hobby for getting my thoughts ‘out there.’  Now, I am in frequent contact with my readers.  They send me questions, ideas, prayer requests, and continue to challenge me to dream about the Kingdom of God.  There are lots of good Christian folks who are hungry for a faith that stretches beyond the status quo and it seems that for the moment, God has given me a platform to minister to such Christ-followers (and even some skeptics).  If I would have to label myself (which I am hesitant to do), I would probably say that I am an Anabaptist, lower-case evangelical, fairly charismatic, sometimes contemplative, follower of Jesus.  I am passionate about theology, spirituality, social justice, creation care, ethics, ministry, and leaving behind the right answers.  Currently, I am working on my first book project (more details to come soon!).  You can catch up with me on Facebook or Twitter.

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Kurt Willems is an Anabaptist writer and pastor who is preparing for church planting by finishing work towards a Master of Divinity degree at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary.  You can catch up with Kurt at the Pangea Blog, Twitter, and Facebook.  He’s a contributing writer for Red Letter Christians, and has also written for Relevant Magazine, The Ooze, Emergent Village, Mennonite Weekly Review and Sojourners. ***To stay connected subscribe by email!

About the Pangea Blog

The name Pangea is not found in the Bible, but what it conveys is a powerful metaphor for the kingdom of God.  In Ancient Greek, Pangea means – “entire” “earth.”  It was the “super-continent” that was formed prior to the tectonic plates eventually shifting to break apart the world into the seven continents we currently know.  Where this becomes a theological concept is the idea that God’s kingdom is one that unites the world under his perfect reign.  We are united as a global church that takes our citizenship from a kingdom devised of every tribe, nation, and tongue.  To this kingdom and to the King of Kings we give our full and primary allegiance, even as we sojourn in a land that is called America.  Our identity as Christ-followers transcends the borders of any nation or anything else our culture creates to divide people.  Pangea is the kingdom that God will eventually set up when he returns to renew the cosmos and to flood it with his heavenly justice, and Pangea is the kingdom to which we are called to be ambassadors for Christ in the present.

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