The international journal
Missiology
, the premier journal in the field, has made its current issue (
January 2013
) available for free online this month. If you're curious about the scholarly discussion on missional leadership -- and we hope you will be -- check it out. In particular our own Terri Elton has
an excellent piece on the intersection of missiology and youth ministry
, and there are compelling pieces on
narrative engagement
,
undergraduate perceptions of mission
, and
hip hop theology in
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Discernment for missional leadership must never become a recipe, but living in gratitude has to be one of the ways in which we honor God.
Here's a thoughtful reflection
on gratitude from a resource somewhat on the margins of religious community -- and therefore all the more pointed.
Read the whole piece
, but here's a brief taste:
Spiritual practice is all about noticing and creating choices – about coaxing our minds and hearts out of their entrenched habits of anxious self-absorption. With
…
Here's a very thoughtful reflection
, written in the context of a spiritual direction training program, on spiritual direction as a form of missional ministry. A brief excerpt:
Spurning the attractional methods of much of contemporary American Christianity, the missional church is incarnational -- it seeks to be the hands and feet of God at work in the world. Frost and Hirsch say, "By incarnational we mean it does not create sanctified spaces into which unbelievers must come to encounter the gospel.
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The new issue of the
Journal of Lutheran Ethics
arrived in our inbox yesterday. Along with an excellent set of essays about the interface of religion and technology, the email included this photo illustration of an 'enter' key shaped as a cross. The juxtaposition of the cross (the place where God meets us through Christ in our deepest despair) with a keyboard key (a symbol of efficiency and finality... 'click enter and you're done') brings to mind the paradox of living in this high-tech age where
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In his daily post on his in the meantime blog, Luther Seminary professor David Lose hits the proverbial Refomation nail on its digital media head.
Just a little post-Enlightenment missional nostalgia in honor of Reformation Day, check it out.