Barnabas Lin

Barnabas Lin is a seasoned facilitator who grew up outside the US, along the Pacific Rim, and was formed as a minister in Chicago. He currently serves as his church’s theologian-in-residence, while also working on a PhD in theological ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary. Passionate about God’s love for the world, Barnabas helps others grow a deeper sense of Christian belonging and freedom by engaging significant difference, trusting that these are the firstfruits of true peace.

What gets me out of bed in the morning: possibility & responsibility. The world still brims with possibility; I get out of bed to find and make more beauty, more joy, more life. And I get out of bed to fulfill, as best I can, the responsibility to love—and be loved by—the people and communities I’m tethered to.

I believe in loving dialogue because in an ideologically polarized and rhetorically warring world, it provides the sacred space needed to find and exercise our voices, to speak, to be seen and received. It is the beginning of the hard, salvific work of participating in messianic peace.