Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its Western cultural captivity and to embody a next evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. This prophetic report casts a vision for a dynamic evangelicalism that fully embodies the cultural realities of the twenty-first century.
Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its Western cultural captivity and to embody a next evangelicalism that is diverse and multie...
Description: Contents Letter from Editors SECTION I: INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP AND THE SCRIPTURES Cultivating Oaks of Righteousness: Restoration and Mission in Isaiah 61 Daniel R. Carroll Now is the Time: Reflections on Isaiah 61:1-4 Marshall Hatch Jesuss Model for Us in Luke 4:15-30 and Lukes Gospel Craig Keener Isaiah, Luke, and Jesus on the Corner Patty Prasada-Rao SECTION II: CROSS-CULTURAL LEADERSHIP Rethinking Incarnational Ministry Soong-Chan Rah On Preparing Leadership for a Rapidly Changing Inter-Cultural Urban World Juan Francisco Martinez Cultivating Autochthonous Leadership: Why...
Description: Contents Letter from Editors SECTION I: INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP AND THE SCRIPTURES Cultivating Oaks of Righteousness: Res...
Contents Letter from the Editors CCDA Theology Committee Part I: CCDA National Conference Theme: ""Flourishing"" Prosperity and Flourishing: A Biblical Witness James K. Bruckner Flourishing Dennis Edwards The Prosperity Gospels' Transformation of the Popular Religious Imagination Kate Bowler Ogbu Kalu, African Pentecostalism and Shalom 24 Valerie Landfair Cities of God: Reclaiming Culture through the Flourishing of the City Allie Wong Finding Our Way Home Samantha Domingo Part II: CCDA Ministr y in North Carolina North Carolina's Cry for Racial Justice Reynolds Chapman Liturgical Gardening...
Contents Letter from the Editors CCDA Theology Committee Part I: CCDA National Conference Theme: ""Flourishing"" Prosperity and Flourishing: A Biblica...
When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamentations. Preaching on an obscure, depressing Old Testament book was probably not the most seeker-sensitive way to launch a church. But it shaped their community with a radically countercultural perspective. The American church avoids lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Lament recognizes struggles and suffering, that the world is not as it ought to be. Lament challenges the status quo and cries out for justice...
When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamenta...
Diversity and equality are terms swamping social media, news outlets, and campuses these days. While the desire for diversity may be sincere it is also superficial. With genuine diversity there is a profusion of perspectives. Yet when ideas and arguments are limited to ""tweets"" forgotten to another fleeting proclamation any hope for reasoned reflection is lost. How do leaders keep up and effectively lead? Nicole Oliver Snyder describes how mindfulness and spiritual practices are both in the DNA of Christian tradition and are powerful to unite. Intentional time to consider divergent ideas...
Diversity and equality are terms swamping social media, news outlets, and campuses these days. While the desire for diversity may be sincere it is als...
