Ben Hein

Ben is a husband to Neva and father to four children, Felix (2018), Kaius (2020), and twins Jubilee and Jethro (2023). Ben is the church planting pastor of Redeemer for the Near Westside, a ministry seeking to see a new church planted through the proclamation and demonstration of Christ’s Kingdom.

The Year of Jubilee

Several years ago, I attended a conference where I heard a message on Luke 4:14-30 which deeply unsettled me. In a conference that was intended to motivate its audience toward evangelism, this…

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A Deconstruction Parallel

In his influential book A Theology of Liberation, theologian and Dominican Priest Gustavo Gutiérrez described a kind of deconstruction happening among the mid-twentieth century youth in Latin America. Much of what he…

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MLK 101

In 2016 I sat down to read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. I haven’t been the same since. I grew up hearing about Dr. King in school as…

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