Presentation Given at March 2, 2022 Colloquium Part of Educating Urban Ministers in Philadelphia After 2020 project Presentation Question: What does localized incarnational ministry, contextualized worship and congregation, communal spiritual formation, etc. look like? In December 2019, an outbreak in Wuhan in central China was the source of a novel virus that could not be […]
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Response to Carlos Worthy’s Presentation at March 2, 2022 Colloquium Part of Educating Urban Ministers in Philadelphia After 2020 project Presentation Question: What does localized incarnational ministry, contextualized worship and congregation, communal spiritual formation, etc. look like? My first comment is that the question itself is a bit too large and comprehensive on which a
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The Initial Victory In 2009, on a bitterly cold January afternoon, I joined eleven others in a civil disobedience action against a gun shop in Philadelphia. At the time this gun shop was reputed to be the fifth largest seller of illegal guns in the United States through a process called “straw purchasing.” Straw purchasers
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The hope of most urban missionaries is to see people living in urban poverty become leaders in their own community. Once equipped with education and opportunity, instead of moving out of town, we encourage them to stay and make a difference. However, these leaders are often considered a failure by their own community if they don’t relocate. Incarnational ministers receive accolades for their “sacrifice” of living in urban poverty, but community leaders do not.
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