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Christena Cleveland on Practices for Sociological Imagination

Christena Cleveland on Practices for Sociological Imagination

Christena Cleveland recently sat down with Tod Bolsinger (Vice President for Formation and Vocation at Fuller Theological Seminary) to discuss the intersection of privilege and leadership. You can find a series of short videos capturing different aspects of this conversation here. Today we wanted to share one of these videos with you. We hope you’ll take the time to view all of them.

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Thinking Biblically?

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Does the Current Structure of the Church Marginalize and Suppress Lay Voices?

In this episode Greg discusses church organization and the current model of developing church leaders (as well as the nature of their role in the church). Links: Greg’s book: “The Myth of a Christian Nation” http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0035.mp3

Some Thoughts on Women in Ministry

Throughout the testimony of Scripture, we have examples of God tolerating many things that are far from ideal in order to gradually transform the world in the direction he intends for us. For example, God’s ideal from the beginning was monogamy. But throughout most of history God has tolerated and worked within polygamous cultures in order…

Video Q&A: Do you think Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons are saved?

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Did Jesus Encourage a Flat Power Structure in the Church?

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Listening with Humility and Love

Bindaas Madhavi via Compfight Robert Martin over at Abnormal Anabaptist published an article today concerning the recent post by the Gospel Coalition. The Gospel Coalition seems to be humbly acknowledging that maybe they have something to learn from Anabaptists. Martin notes that many Anabaptists have responded with something along the lines of “Yay! It’s about…