Tag: politics
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Critical Theories are Coercive and Violent
Liberation ethics—the way critical theories are utilized by some theologies/missiologies today frames everything by an oppressor-oppressed binary—itself is coercive and violent. So is fundamentalism. See my reason below, from my article published last month in Mission Studies: “Since liberation ethics particularly, and critical theories more generally, frame liberation along an oppressed–oppressor axis, they are analogous…
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Church – quit admonishing the world and start engaging!
One of my favourite authors and renowned historian, John Dickson, was interviewed by Marshall Shelley and Drew Dyck recently. The interview, which is titled, ‘The Church in Secular Culture – Moving from a stance of admonition to mission’ is available in the Leadership Journal. Below is the excerpt of a section of interview which I think speaks…
Faith and Culture Today 