Jubilee and Social Justice
Examine whether the gospel as we interpret it today embodies the jubilee vision of the Bible.
Examine whether the gospel as we interpret it today embodies the jubilee vision of the Bible.
At its beginning Christianity was surprising, powerful, creative, world-shaking.Today in the West it is many times familiar, common, andexpected, losing its power to surprise and transform. We have developedsocietal amnesia and ignorance of...
The history of Christianity, the growth of the Church, is the history of its missionary efforts, its successes and failures.
Women have participated in Christian mission work since the beginning of Christianity. Few of their names are known to us; others are identified as spouses or coworkers of men in mission; and many remain completely anonymous. Putting Names...
Jesus called us to follow him, to live a life of active faith, feeding the poor, healing the sick, welcoming the alien, and rescuing the desperate. It’s easy to get stuck in our religious habits of just going to church, tossing a few...
Shows today's leaders how to speak and minister more effectively the the current culture
A challenge to take the church into the world instead of coaxing the world into the church.
"La iglesia existe por la misión, al igual que el fuego existe por la combustión”. Con estas palabras de Emil Brunner, el autor nos recuerda que ser la iglesia es estar en misión. Después de describir las...
In Who Comes in the Name of the Lord?, Harold J. Recinos advances the thesis that God has already prepared a future for mainline churches in Christ at the margins of society. That margin is the barrio -- a contemporary Nazareth -- judged by...