Ryan Bolger - Foundations of Ministry II

Ryan Bolger gave a lecture on the Emerging Church discussion. He had a lot of good things to say about it being tied to the application of missiological principles traditionally aimed at "other" cultures to our own culture as it changes out from under us. He brought up Paul Hiebert's notion about giving people space to "windowshop" the gospel by being in community before they commit to it, though he didn't name it as such. He also spent some time talking about the "club culture" in the UK that has replaced church functionally for most adults and is now coming full circle as faithful Christians within it are expressing their worship from within that world. I wish he had mentioned Jonny Baker's great site where you can see one London community's work doing this up close. Overall a good talk.

Jim Wallis, various faculty and Guest Speakers

A few weeks back Dr. Mark Lau Branson emailed us suggesting that we might take better notes if we left our laptops behind. Less verbatim, mindless note taking, more presence, less email and web-surfing. Turns out he was right.

Last week Jim Wallis of Sojourners Magazine sojo.net stopped off on his book tour to speak to us here at Fuller. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.









These are from a panel of three ministers working in various urban community development and labor contexts.