Mission Statement
image-bearers.org exists to speak truthfully about what it means to be human.
Christian theology answers that question not with an abstraction, but with a person. Jesus Christ is not merely a moral example; he is the only fully human life ever lived—humanity as it was meant to be. To bear the image of God is to be formed toward his likeness: to love rightly, to see truly, and to live faithfully in the world as it actually is.
From this conviction flows both theology and education. Education is not primarily about usefulness, efficiency, or measurable outcomes. It is about formation—about shaping persons capable of attention, judgment, humility, courage, and love. These virtues do not exist to serve us; they grow us. They prepare us not merely to survive, but to live well within the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom is not built through optimization or strategy, but through faithfulness. Education is never neutral; it always forms someone toward something. This site exists to reflect honestly on that formation—where it aligns with the image of Christ, and where it distorts it.
imagebearers.org is a place for low-stakes, ego-free writing: thoughtful reflection rather than performance, truth-telling rather than virality. Theology and education meet here because both are ultimately concerned with the same end—not what works, but what is true about being human.
Why image-bearers?
The name image-bearers comes from the Christian conviction that human beings are made in the image of God—not as a metaphor or sentiment, but as a claim about what it means to be human. To bear God’s image is to be formed for truth, love, creativity, responsibility, and communion. It means that every person carries a dignity that precedes usefulness and cannot be earned or optimized. This site takes that claim seriously. imagebearers exists to explore how that dignity is revealed, distorted, or restored—especially in the ways we teach, learn, and live together.
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