Envisioning the New City

This book compiles essays by over thirty urban pastors, community organizers, seminary professors, and church leaders. Their essays seek to present creative opportunities for urban ministries to bring hope and renewal to their congregations and communities.

Foreword

13

(4)

Harvey Cox

Acknowledgments

17

(2)

Introduction: Teaching Ourselves the City

19

(12)

Eleanor Scott Meyers

PART ONE: CITIES AND THE CHURCH: FAITH, THE BIBLE, AND STRATEGY

Bricks Without Straw: Ministry in the City

31

(13)

Donna Schaper

The Second Reformation Has Begun

44

(20)

Jim Wallis

Pastor, Priest, Organizer: Leadership in Community Ministries

64

(13)

David Mann

PART TWO: URBAN NORTH AMERICA IN THE 1990s: THE CONTEXT FOR MINISTRY

A Home for the Homeless

77

(3)

James P. Stobaugh

The New Urban Reality: Hope for a Remnant

80

(10)

Clinton E. Stockwell

Whatever Happened to the Golden Rule?

90

(8)

James A. Forbes, Jr.

Racism and Drugs in the City: The Church's Call to Ministry

98

(11)

Hal Joseph Recinos

Poverty: The Urban-Rural Linkages

109

(16)

Gary E. Farley

Older Women in the City

125

(20)

Elizabeth W. Markson

PART THREE: PASTORAL DIMENSIONS OF MINISTRY IN CITIES

The New Spirituality and Empowerment

Church and City: African American Christianity's Ministry

145

(7)

Robert Michael Franklin

The City as Battered Woman

152

(4)

Letty Russell

Ritual Expression in the Urban Church

156

(12)

Janet Walton

Eleanor Scott Meyers

Public Ministry: Chronicles of Capacity Building

168

(14)

Philip Amerson

Looking for God in the City: A Meditation

182

(8)

Barbara Brown Taylor

A Lesson on Urban Spirituality

190

(15)

Valerie E. Russell

Ethical Foundations for Urban Ministry Strategies

A Health Crisis and a Healing Ministry

205

(16)

Kent C. Miller

Janice L. Burggrabe

The Feminization of Poverty: Challenge for the Church

221

(14)

Dennis Hollinger

Joseph Modica

The Urban Congregation and Public Policy

235

(15)

Katie Day

What We Owe Women and Children: Reflections on the Church and Economic Justice

250

(18)

Carol S. Robb

The Uprooted Poor: Mandate for Mission

268

(7)

Valerie E. Russell

Fighting AIDS and HIV Together

275

(20)

William A. Doubleday

Suki Terada Ports

PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES OF CONGREGATIONS AND EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY

Local Ministry and Church-Based Community Organizing

San Lucas: Presente!

295

(13)

Mary Lou Porrata

An Ecumenical Approach to Urban Ministry

308

(4)

David C. Bloom

Metropolitan Ministry in Jersey Ghettos

312

(15)

Sam Appel

Theological Education and the Preparation for Public Ministry

Teaching Ministry in the City

327

(12)

Glenda Hope

Penny Sarvis

Training Ministers for Urban Ministry with the Cultural Right

339

(11)

Tex Sample

Contextualization of Theological Education

350

Lynn Rhodes

Nancy Richardson

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