In ‘The Great Emergence,’ Phyllis Tickle gives a concise overview of church history, describes a cycle of immense change, and pinpoints the present as a moment of great upheaval, opportunity, and change.
In this essay, Professor Anthony Baker explores the limits and possibilities of Alain Badiou’s Promethean politics before turning to the theology of Clement of Alexandria as a resource for a truly radical, even revolutionary, politics.
In this interview, award-winning poet and best-selling author Kathleen Norris discusses writing, death, marriage, elder care, the church community, and her new book “Acedia and Me.”
In this article, Dr. Raschke addresses the crisis in theological education brought on by the rapid deinstitutionalization and deprofessionalization of Christianity; he suggests how theological education should re-imagine itself in a postmodern context.
This article examines Christianity’s relationship to immigration in America.
In October 2003, Conor Gearty—Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics—gave the Second Alan Bray Memorial Lecture on ‘Reclaiming Our Tradition: Rights, Diversity and Catholic Social Thought’.[1] In his lecture, Professor Gearty offered a balanced and very generous appraisal of the Catholic Church’s commitment to human rights, and urged people not […]
Trends in World Christianity A fact of our time is the rise of Southern Christianity. Its emergence heralds the birth of a truly dynamic world Christianity, marked by the axial shift in mass and direction of the religion’s center from North America and Europe to Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, a phenomenon that […]
TOJ: “The” distinction for the emergent church and for younger Christians over the last 10 years has been that of being postmodern. The binary category of being postmodern, rather than modern, and such dedication to that label has given needed identity to younger generations experiencing a new culture. How important do you think it is for […]
The Other Journal (TOJ): I once heard a person say that they didn’t understand how someone could be a Christian and a Democrat at the same time. Do you think the current political divide in the country has hindered the unity in the Church? Tony Campolo (TC): I think the Church has contributed to dividing […]