Spotlight Interview: Dennis Orthner on Public Discipleship

In todays spotlight interview, VJN had a conversation with Dennis Orthner. Dennis is a social work professor at UNC,  and he candidly shares how discipleship should be a public act. Watch this interview to take a look at his view on why supportive services are so inappropriately managed how they can be changed for the better.

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The late John Turner, former dean of UNC’s School of Social Work, hired Orthner in 1988. Then a professor at the University of Georgia, Orthner was viewed as someone who could kickstart the School’s research funding, which at the time, was practically non-existent, noted current Dean Jack M. Richman. At UNC, Orthner helped to establish the School’s Human Services Research and Design Laboratory, which promoted and supported faculty research interests.