During the Time of Your Exile

1 Peter 1:17-23

Worship and the church\u27s mission

The article contends that when the church creates, especially in and through worship, her own world, her mission will be truncated and/or narrowly defined; when it accepts God\u27s created world, her worship will empower mission. Worship as ritual has enormous power to create a special world--something observable in \u27ethnic\u27 congregations and cults--and mission then becomes the maintaining of it. Nevertheless, Scripture and theology teach that creating a special world and relegating God to it is idolatry. Four ways in which worship may rediscover and recover God\u27s world so that it may empower the church\u27s mission to that world are discussed

Introduction

Papers given at conf \u27Discovery \u2799: festival of faith and life\u27, Erindale College, Univ of Toronto in Mississauga, June 10-13 1999

Vision of peace

Isaiah 2:1-5; Matthew 2:1-11

2. Led Into The Interior: Incorporation

Papers given at conf \u27Discovery \u2799: festival of faith and life\u27, Erindale College, Univ of Toronto in Mississauga, June 10-13 1999

Preaching the Creative Gospel Creatively

Reviewed Book: Rossow, Francis C. Preaching the Creative Gospel Creatively. [S.l.]: Concordia, 1983

Worship

Also published as study document by Lutheran Council in Canada

The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin

Reviewed Book: Maximus, of Turin, Saint. The Sermons of St Maximus of Turin. New York: Newman Press, 1989

Indian awareness: can we see non-peoples as people?

We have not been able to see North American native peoples as human societies with culture and religion. Since Columbus\u27 suggestion that he had reached Eden or its outer proximity, native peoples have been looked upon as either more or less than human. As such they were either to be destroyed or assimilated (i.e, made human). Once placed on reserves, government and church cooperated to educate, civilize, and Christianize them. This inability to appreciate fully human societies with culture and religion raises at least three theological issues for the church: 1) the church\u27s relationship to the dominant culture; 2) the effect of the traditional method of doing theology upon the image of native peoples; and 3) the violation of \u27justification by grace through faith\u27 by the \u27educate, civilize, and Christianize\u27 approach

Preaching: where we\u27re going

This article follows upon an earlier article (\u27Preaching: where we\u27ve been\u27, Consensus 8,3-11 Ja 82). Developments in communication, technology, hermeneutics and myth directed preaching to understand itself as \u27event\u27 and therefore to shape itself as \u27story\u27. The narrative form can carry the varied and contradictory realities and mysteries of life as no rational \u27system\u27 can, and is true to the prime genre of the Bible. While the work of keener definition remains to be done, narrative preaching demonstrates the power to give people a better \u27story to live by\u27