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Reflections for a Conversation on Theology in Congregational Life
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by George R. Hunsberger
For the circles of people drawn to associate with each other in what is called the Gospel and Our Culture Network, one of the most characteristic convictions is that theology is the vocation of the whole church. What the church does, how it thinks, its assumed behaviors and instinctive worldview are understood to be theologizing activities more...
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The Church and the Powers
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by Lois Y. Barrett
As we talk about the powers, we need to be careful about calling anything and anyone that wields power one of the "powers." In the New Testament, the powers have a character beyond individual human beings. They have a collective nature, or an institutional nature, or a political nature as well as a spiritual nature, an ethos, a continuity beyond particular individuals. Economic systems are powers. more...
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The Gospel in Postmodernity: Finding a Center
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by William Stacy Johnson
Increasingly the church in North America labors in a "postmodern" context. Postmodernity represents much more than a passing fad among radically chic academics; it is a wide-ranging set of cultural shifts that are fast becoming second-nature for many of our parishioners. Like it or not, these shifts will profoundly affect the way the church conducts its ministry for the foreseeable future. So what must we do to confront this new cultural challenge? more...
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Whenever You Enter a House: Reflections on Mark 6:7-13
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by Brian Cole
All good worship begins with confession. I would like to begin this reflection with a confession, as well. I am unnerved by this text. And not this story alone. All texts in the New Testament writings which suggest themselves as a "sending out" story, a passage on missions, always give me real pause. It is not the texts themselves, but the interpretations that have so often been attached to them by too many well-intended missionaries and those of us who support them and their work. more...
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The Dialogical Imperative
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by Michael S. Bos
In North America we are on the brink of interfaith living. This fact we cannot deny or avoid. The only uncertainty lies in whether it will be helpful or hurtful. Only those living in a Christian ghetto will be able to retreat from this issue--but the retreat is only temporary. Even small town, rural America is being challenged by religious pluralism. more...
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