Monthly Archives: June 2016
Editorial: The New Commons
In the last issue the journal proposed that we 'change the conversation' from its preoccupation with church into a readiness to participate with God's activity within neighbourhoods. In the current issue we wrestle with some implications of this journey. There is an invitation to seek the common good of neighbourhood communities: 'Seek the welfare of the city to which I am sending you' (Jeremiah 29:7). We will explore what seeking the common good might mean, why it is so important in terms of Christian life and how it intersects with such things as mission and evangelism.
Book Review: ‘Subterranean’ by Dan White Jr.
Church planter Dan White has an appreciation for the ways in which Euro-tribal, evangelical churches and their leaders remain deeply enmeshed in rationalisms, techniques, notions of success and power that so deeply infect Christian life on this continent. In the early chapters he dives into these issues. He travels a road many of us have taken by pointing out these captivities in order to show their inadequacy. The hope is that readers will see this and, in so doing, want to travel with him...
The Pilgrims of Bonny Downs
In the narrative of scripture we often hear of God’s people as pilgrims, a body-in-movement and, ultimately, those who are ‘sent’. Of course, being sent is coherent with being a people who remain in a specific geographical location across generations....
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