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Missio Dei is a new kind of journal, geared for the whole spectrum of Christian leaders in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Each month you will find articles here by faculty and friends of Tyndale Seminary. The authors will explore how insights from their diverse fields of expertise can help you to reflect on the real work of engaging our communities with the Gospel.
… the articles in Missio Dei will aim to be integrative. Too often our thinking and our work is chopped up and amputated by artificial separations and polarities. Scholarship is pitted against practical action. Evangelism is pitted against social justice. The Seminary is pitted against the Church. Faith is pitted against careful thinking. The authors writing in Missio Dei will approach their varied topics with the common conviction that God’s work must embrace both ends of these oppositions.
And to whet your appetite, may I suggest Dr. Ian Scott’s article on what it means to join God’s mission with a Southern Ontario focus in Paul and God’s Multicultural Mission.
Those who feel insecure always love to be in a position of leadership and power. To have power is to have control. Many pastors in leadership roles are those who are insecure. Whether they move on due to their accomphlishments or lack of, the next area of control and power to sought for is, most of the time, sexual.
While searching for some of the texts required for the course I am going to attend next week, I came across this:
The WSCF-AP Book Series Publication Project started in 1976 in order to provide students and youth with wholistic understanding of society and church in the Asia Pacific region as well as the world.
The Book Series is a theological attempt to articulate ecumenical vision and mission in the context of Asia-Pacific society where poverty, hunger, oppression, injustice and human rights violation prevail. The Book Series addresses the critical issues of the Asia Pacific context.
It includes the peasantry and their social revolution; theology of the People’s Struggle (Philippines); Minjung Theology (Korea); women’s struggle; interfaith dialogue; peace and conflict transformation; education and liberation; as well as ecumenism.
Some of the titles there are from WCC written in the 80’s. Most authors came from Christian traditions outside of Evangelicalism. Nonetheless, it should be a good source of Christian materials written by and for those living in the Asia-Pacific.
Let me warn you first, this is an 1-hour-20-minutes long presentation. But what you are looking at, could very well be our future way of online communication, in the not-too-distant-future:
Please read the sharing below from a Christian brother of mine, and visit the provided website (www.vracommittee.com) to review the facts and make the appropriate action.
Justice is something that we as Christian should neither overlook nor neglect. Our faith does not concern only things that are spiritual; it must be solidly planted in the world we live in.
…perhaps you may have already heard about the incidence of a supermarket owner in Chinatown (金牛城超市東主陳旺) who was prosecuted with serious crimes like kidnapping, forcible confinement, possession of weapon, etc just becasue who tried to catch a thief and tied him up in order to hand him over to the police. Last Friday, a group called Victim’s Rights Action Committee (VRAC) launched an online petition with a view to urging the Federal government to review the existing Criminal Code and the Crown prosecution to drop the charges against the owner.
I am personally very sympathetic towards the owner and totally agree that he should not be charged with the offences which carry serious punishment. It is totally absurd and sends very bad signal to other shoplifters that they are being “protected”. The consequence of which is catastrophical to the shop owners in Chinatown who have to struggle for the living. I have signed the petition.
While charges have been laid, it is still possible that they can be stayed or withdrawn which is totally within the jurisdiction of the Crwon prosecutor. So the more signatures that VRAC can gather online, the better chance that the charges may be dropped as political pressure has been asserted…
Here is the website of VRAC : www.vracommittee.com where you can find the facts of the story and some video clippings of the incidence.
