Jesus Returns to Washington — The Public Witness of the Church

Feb/Mar 2012 Issue Table of Contents

Intro­duc­tion to the Issue

• “Intro­duc­ing: Jesus Returns to Wash­ing­ton,” Patrick David Heery

Quick Takes

• Rapid Inter­views
• “Why I Am Still a Chris­t­ian,” Gary Dorrien
• “The Spir­i­tu­al­ity of the Church,” Emily Morgan
• “The Church and the Living-Practicer The­ory,” Eleanor Reed Held
• “Pres­by­ter­ian Cit­i­zens: Con­nect­ing Faith and Pol­i­tics,” Roger Scott Powers

Debat­ing Church in the World

• “Gospel­ing Beyond Our Pre­ferred Agen­das,” Wal­ter Brueggemann
• “Evan­ge­lism and Jus­tice,” Dar­rell Guder
• “The Case for Social Right­eous­ness,” Cyn­thia Rigby
• “Jus­tice as a Spir­i­tual Prac­tice,” Dou­glas Mitchell
• “Why I Sup­port #OWS as a Reformed The­olo­gian,” W. Travis McMaken

Prac­tic­ing Church in the World

• “Eco-Villages: A Labor Not in Vain,” Ruth Farrell
• “Pul­pit as a Forum for the Restora­tion of Gov­ern­ment” — Reflec­tions from Kenya, Tim­o­thy Njoya
• “To a God Unknown: Social Media as the New Agora,” Patrick David Heery
• “Eugene Car­son Blake’s Social Creed: Lead­er­ship and Con­tent,” Chris Iosso
• “A New Orga­niz­ing Model for the PC(U.S.A.) Office of Pub­lic Wit­ness: Young Adult Par­tic­i­pa­tion Is Essen­tial for a New Era of Polit­i­cal Advo­cacy,” J. Her­bert Nel­son, II
• “Advo­cacy: Liv­ing a Pub­lic Faith” — Pres­by­ter­ian Min­istry at the United Nations, W. Mark Koenig
• “Jus­tice Meets Evan­ge­lism,” Paul See­beck (Pres­by­te­ri­ans Today)

Preach­ing Church in the World: Reflec­tions with Scripture

• “Con­fess­ing the Beat­i­tudes: Greatly Hon­ored Are Those Who Are Fam­ished and Parched for Jus­tice!” Mar­garet Aymer
• “Reflect­ing with Scrip­ture on Com­mu­nity Orga­niz­ing,” Jef­frey Krehbiel
• “The Pub­lic Square as Sacred Space,” Shan­non Daley-Harris

Resources and Rec­om­mended Reading

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