Poverty, ultimately, means an early and unjust death. Poverty is not only a social issue. It is a human issue, and consequently a challenge to faith and thus a challenge to theology.
01811 – Poverty is a Human Issue
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01676 – Spiritual Transformation & Seasons of Life
The truth is that spiritual transformation takes place as we embrace the challenges and opportunities associated with each season of our life. from Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
01641 – Stories Challenge Us
One thing healthy religion does is challenge us. I don’t mean the strident castigations of the street preacher or even the social justice rally-er. Great traditions excel at the soft challenge, the friendly nudge, issued predominantly through the mode of story....
01624 – The Vine & Branches Metaphor
The communal life envisioned in the vine metaphor raises a strong challenge to contemporary Western models of individual autonomy and privatism. At the heart of the Johannine model is social interrelationship and corporate accountability. The vine and branches...
01597 – Challenged to Change Ourselves
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
01525 – Where I Cry Foul
This is where I cry foul and not for my own sake … (but) for sake of my gender, for the sake of our sisters in Christ and for the sake of other female leaders who will be faced with similar challenges. I do so for the sake of my brothers because Christlikeness is at...
01515 – Understanding Others’ Unique Challenges
If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.
01500 – The Ideal of Kingship
It is this ideal of kingship that is manifested most perfectly in the life and mission of Jesus of Nazareth. ...The ideal of kingship furnished the content for the messianic tradition, the tradition which was fulfilled in the life of Christ and which is the challenge...
01334 – Syncretism & the Church
It would be hard to deny that contemporary British (and most Western) Christianity is in an advanced state of syncretism. The church has lived so long as a permitted and even privileged minority, accepting regulation to the private sphere in a culture whose public...
01269 – Public Good vs. Private Virtue
Public good doesn't automatically follow from private virtue. A person's moral character, sterling though it may be, is insufficient to serve the cause of justice, which is to challenge the status quo, to try to make what's legal more moral, to speak truth to power,...