Articles
September 1, 1997
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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?
September 1, 1997
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What shape will congregational ministry become in the future? Troost, then Synod Minister of the Regional Synod of Albany of the Reformed Church in America, asks how such a judicatory as a regional synod can help congregations live into a missional approach to ministry?
March 1, 1997
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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.