The Community College of Rhode Island will host the Rev. John C. Rankin, president of the Theological Education Institute (TEI), located near Hartford, Conn., at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, in the Bobby Hackett Theater at the Knight Campus in Warwick. The presentation, which is sponsored by the nonprofit CCRI Foundation and the Charles Sullivan Fund for the Arts and Humanities, is free and open to the public.
During a talk titled “The Six Pillars of Honest Politics: An Affirmation,” Rev. Rankin will outline the context necessary for a healthy partisan debate over public policy. The “six pillars” he will discuss include the powers to give, be transparent, make an informed decision, embrace hard questions, love enemies and forgive. These pillars, he argues, are the foundation of creating a level playing field for all political issues to be heard equally.
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Rev. Rankin has a diverse theological and liberal arts background. He founded TEI in 1990 after 12 years in both pastoral and pro-life ministry. In 2007, he authored “The Six Pillars of Honest Politics: The Biblical Nature of a Level Playing Field,” which will form the basis of his presentation. He is host of the Mars Hill Forum series, where he has invited public conversation with the widest range of theological and political partisans.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Denison University, a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Master of Theology in ethics and public policy from Harvard Divinity School.
The Community College of Rhode Island, New England’s largest comprehensive community college, currently enrolls 18,000 students in credit courses and thousands more in non-credit and job training classes. CCRI has campuses in Warwick, Lincoln, Providence and Newport County, as well as satellite locations in downcity Providence and Westerly.
