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Evangelism and Justice

From False Dichotomies to Gospel Faithfulness Considering what it might take to merge the priorities of evangelism and social justice into one missional conviction that embodies them both.   By Darrell Guder   View and print as PDF   Toward … Continue reading

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Resources and Recommended Reading

Resources and Recommended Reading

For Further Study on the Public Witness of the Church A Social Creed for the 21st Century, National Council of Churches of Christ AGAPE Document: Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth, World Council of Churches Background on the AGAPE Document … Continue reading

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Gospeling Beyond Our Preferred Agendas

  Learning from Isaiah that we may neither privatize evangelism nor claim the autonomy of social action.   By Walter Brueggemann   View and print as PDF   The overwhelming theological claim of the Bible in all its parts is … Continue reading

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Why I Am Still a Christian

By Gary Dorrien   (The following is an autobiographical reflection from social ethicist, Gary Dorrien, also appearing in “On Living Faith” series offered by Odyssey Networks, and previewed by Unbound on ecclesio.com. Looking back to the Civil Rights Movement and … Continue reading

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