Mutual Treasure: Seeking Better Ways for Christians and Culture to Converse

How should Christians engage culture? One strategy is confrontation: beating "infidels" with Bibles, seeking to win the "culture wars." But such confrontation rarely works'¿¿and reflects failure to of Christians to love those they disagree with. Rejecting both Christian withdrawal from and confrontational approaches to culture, this book calls for engaging others by coming alongside them, building relationships of trust through which to seek mutual treasure.

Harold Heie, Orange City, Iowa, was the Founding Director of the Center for Christian Studies at Gordon College (MA), where he now serves as a Senior Fellow. He is also a trustee of the Center for Public Justice (MD) and a Senior Fellow at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.He served for forty years as a teacher and academic administrator at Gordon College, The King's College (NY), Northwestern College (IA), and Messiah College (PA). Michael A. King, Telford, Pennsylvania, is a publisher and editor of DreamSeeker Magazine. In addition to many articles, King has had published such books as Preaching about Life in a Threatening World (with Ron Sider, Westminster, 1987) and Fractured Dance: Gadamer and Mennonite Conflict Over Homosexuality (Pandora Press U.S., 2001). He is editor of Stumbling Toward a Genuine Conversation on Homosexuality (Cascadia, 2007) and co-editor of Anabaptist Preaching: A Conversation Between Pulpit, Pew, and Bible (Cascadia, 2004).