vol. 4 no. 1 Spring 2009

Capitalism, the Crash, and Christianity

Mark Douglas Keeping this in mind helps us recognize that while our various projects (economic and otherwise) of making the world look the way we want it to may be doomed, we need not succumb to the gloomy conclusion that there’s nothing for us to do and no way for us to move forward. We can train our desires because God has not abandoned us to the whirl. The Christian promise is that God has not and will not leave us bereft of Godself. So we train our desires in the faith that God has given up on neither the world nor our significance in it.

vol. 3 no. 2 Fall 2008

God's Diet and the Retraining of Desire

L. Shannon Jung The faith inherent in the Lord's Supper points the way beyond complicity, even weak complicity. It reveals that sharing with
others is part of delighting, and that the creation is for all. God
gives to all without condition and calls us all to a community of
mutual benefit.

vol. 3 no. 1 Spring 2008

The Seductiveness of The Familiar

Erskine Clarke Professor Erskine Clarke examines the lives of two young 19th century seminary graduates, part of this CTS community in the past, whose lives were marked by faith and failures, and by deep moral ambiguity in the runup to the Civil War.

vol. 2 no. 2 Fall 2007

Creation in Community - Faith and the Environment

Terence E. Fretheim Fretheim sees extraordinary interdependence in the creation account of Genesis 1 and 2. God shares creative powers ("let the earth bring forth"). God involves others in the creative process and chooses to act in genuinely interdependent ways. God creates with a divine council ("let us make"). We can learn different ways of caring for the environment from this creative and relational God.

vol. 2 no. 1 Spring 2007

"The Shaping of Things To Come?"

Dr Stephen A. Hayner These new ecclesial experiments should be viewed as a prophetic movement both to our culture and to our traditional ecclesiastical expressions. We need to listen, to watch, to learn.

vol. 1 no. 2 Fall 2006

Keeping Faith in a Fearful World

Scott Bader-Saye In the midst of a culture of fear, the churches need to be intentional about cultivating the virtue of hope-both as personally and corporately. How might we do this? One way is to recover an understanding of divine providence that can help us trust the future.

vol. 1 no. 1 Spring 2006

Searching for Stars

Mark Douglas Why do so many things people say about God after a disaster seem unhelpful or flat-out wrong? What is it about disasters that can bring out the worst in theology? What is it about God that makes disasters seem so disastrous? Can we, should we talk about God after a disaster?