In dialogue with Rev. Dr. Njoya, Unbound has transcribed, edited, and restructured selections from his book, The Divine Tag on Democracy (Yaounde, Cameroon: Editions CLE, 2003), offering a compelling new witness to the church in the public square of Kenya. We begin with a few contextual remarks. View and
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Help Build Eco-Villages in Haiti… Not for, but with By Ruth Farrell, Coordinator, Presbyterian Hunger Program They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For
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Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations By the Rev. W. Mark Koenig View and print article as PDF “We are ambassadors for Christ.” Those words took on new meaning for me on March 11, 2011—when a tsunami and earthquake hit Japan. The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations has
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Social Media as the New Agora By Patrick David Heery, Unbound Managing Editor Patrick discusses the implications of a new e-ministry that has one leg online and the other on the ground (through churches and local organizers). He challenges Unbound and the church to think strategically about being both
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A Sermon on Isaiah 59:1-4, 9-16, 21 By the Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris Rev. Daley-Harris preached the following sermon at Maryville College Chapel, tracing the progress in Isaiah 59 from complaint to confession to calling. The public square—flyered with eviction notices and photos of children gunned down—is, she argues, precisely
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Young adult participation is essential for a new era of political advocacy By Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II View and print as PDF In molding a model for public witness ministry that serves the whole of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), I have been confronted with two significant
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By Christian T. Iosso The Rev. Dr. Chris Iosso remembers justice and ecumenism advocate Eugene Carson Blake, former President of the NCC, General Secretary to the World Council of Churches, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church, co-author of the 1953 “Letter to Presbyterians” denouncing McCarthyism, and a man once
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By W. Travis McMaken Occupy Wall Street and the movement it spawned (#OWS) proclaims that our social life together in the United States has been tragically undermined by the concentration of wealth and political influence in the hands of a few, thereby disenfranchising the many. The author undertakes to
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By Douglas Mitchell Associate Pastor for “Faith in Action,” Douglas Mitchell conceived the following article as a presentation for a church adult education class and has adapted it here to propose that the ministry of social justice can in fact be a disciplined spiritual practice bringing us into closer,
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By Cynthia Rigby The following is an excerpt from the book by Cynthia Rigby, Promotion of Social Righteousness [Louisville: Witherspoon Press, 2010], 1-11, available from www.TheThoughtfulChristian.com. The article is republished here with permission from the author and Witherspoon Press. Dr. Rigby first shows that social righteousness has a long
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