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Tihomir Kukolja, born in Slavonska Pozega, Croatia in 1954. Studied, lived and worked in Yugoslavia, Croatia, United Kingdom, Australia and the US. Education in theology, communications, and radio journalism. Worked as a church pastor, media professional, radio producer and presenter, journalist, religious liberty activist, and reconciliation and leadership development activist. Lives in Houston TX, USA. Served as the Executive Director, Forum for Leadership and Reconciliation (Forum), and Director of Renewing Our Minds (ROM) initiative for many years. Founder and Director of Leadership Focus International. Loves photography, blogging and social media.
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How to Respond to a Coup
How to Respond to a Coup, Lisa Sharon Harper’s Kitchen Table conversation. Lisa Sharon Harper (Freedom Road) and Tihomir Kukolja (Leadership Focus International) share a honest and engaging conversation about the current insurgence in the US, signs pointing to its … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues
Tagged Christian nationalism, Conspiracy Theories, Democracy, Freedom, Racism
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Zoom Conversation: Losing Jesus in the Conspiracy Jungle?
Zoom conversation, held on Friday, May 8, 2020: Do conspiracies exist? Are too many Christians getting lost in the conspiracy jungle? How does indulgence in conspiracy theories affect the quality of our faith in Jesus and our witness? These are … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues, Life Issues, Video
Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Fake News, Truth
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We Have Seen What Draining the Swamp Looks Like
I am not overly concerned whether the President is going to be impeached or not. I am concerned about the wellbeing of the nation hijacked by the President’s loyalists who, without blinking an eye, call evil good and good evil. This … Continue reading
MEMORANDUM: MOVING FORWARD IN TRUTH, WITH COURAGE AND HOPE
In October last year the organizers of the ROM (Renewing Our Minds) Integration Forum released the Croatian edition of the Memorandum on the ROM Integration Forum, with conclusions and recommendations for Croatian government and non-government organizations and institutions, as well … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues, Documents
Tagged Asylum Seekers, Croatia, Document, Memorandum, Refugees
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A Metaphor for the Hijacked Church
The newly elected Brazilian president Jair Messias Bolsonaro promised: “God above everything. There is no such thing as this secular state. The state is Christian and the minority will have to change, if they can. The minorities will have to adapt … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues, Faith, Leadership, Religion
Tagged Christian America, Christian Nation, Christian Right, Christian Supremacists, Christianity, Church, Current Affairs, Democrats, Dominionism, Donald Trump, Faith, Faith and Politics, Fascism, Franklin Graham, Gregory A. Boyd, hijacked Christianity, Jair Bolsonaro, John Fea, Matt Shea, Moral Majority, Politics, Religion, Republicans, Rule of God, White Evangelicals
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Aren’t We in a Coma Already?
Timothy Snyder reminds us in his book “On Tyranny” (book I would highly recommend): “Until recently, we Americans had convinced ourselves that there was nothing in the future but more of the same. The seemingly distant traumas … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues, Human Dignity, Leadership
Tagged Democracy, Dictatorship, Fascism, Lies, Nightmare, The President, Timothy Snyder, Tyranny
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Devouring Midterm Elections
This is what I blogged eight years ago, on November 2, 2010 exactly: What to say about all the fuss, negative political campaign, demonizing and dehumanization of political opponents through offensive political advertising on TV, and of all religious euphoria … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues, History, Leadership
Tagged Current Affairs, Faith, Midterm election, Politics, US, USA
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Letter to America, Seventeen Years Later
Seventeen years ago, only three weeks after the unprecedented Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S., which took more than 3,000 innocent lives, I shared the following letter, which I wrote from Croatia at that time, with a group of … Continue reading
Posted in Appeal, Current Issues, Faith, History, Human Dignity, Human Rights
Tagged Crime, Faith, September 11, USA
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The Way to Reconciliation Leads Through Empathy
Photo: ROM – Renewing Our Minds group prays in Vukovar, Croatia. Picture taken in 2006. “A new report argues that using the word ‘reconciliation’ does not help families of Kosovo Albanian and Serb war victims to deal with the past … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues, Human Dignity, Reconciliation
Tagged Balkans, Empathy, Forgiveness, Former Yugoslavia, Justice, Kosovo, Reconciliation, Serbia, Solidarity, Transitional Justice, War, War Crimes
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