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{"title":"Disrupting Ecclesial Norms: Emerging Findings from The Missing Voices Project","authors":"J. Forbes, K. Douglass","doi":"10.1177/00405736221128359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221128359","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"272 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47827785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Living/Listening as If the Gospel Is True","authors":"Michael Mather","doi":"10.1177/00405736221112020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221112020","url":null,"abstract":"The Missing Voices Project could be named the Missing Listeners Project. The voices of the very young are present, but there aren’t practices that pay attention to their voices. How will the adults in congregations and ministries pay attention to the gifts, prophecies, talents, passions, and work of the young people that surround them? Listening to the adults and young people in the Missing Voices Project invites us to join God’s good work in the world.","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"324 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46030604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Bonhoeffer as Biblical Interpreter: Reading Scripture in 1930s Germany by Jameson E. Ross","authors":"D. W. Taylor","doi":"10.1177/00405736221108541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221108541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"351 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46935411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century by Eric O. Springsted","authors":"Marie Cabaud Meaney","doi":"10.1177/00405736221108541a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221108541a","url":null,"abstract":"secondary literature. A growing body of work examines how Bonhoeffer theologized the Bible. Ross shows us how he used it. One might question why Ross limits himself to the 1930s. Perhaps the choice was pragmatic. It would be fascinating—even if a bit more challenging—to offer similar analysis of Bonhoeffer’s use of Scripture in the more distinctly ethical phase of the 1940s. Doing this might force us to expand our imaginations. It is one thing to analyze Bonhoeffer’s biblical interpretation in his sermons and commentaries. How might we analyze the way interpretation informed his resistance? Lying behind this question is a larger issue that remains unscrutinized in this book: the assumption that biblical interpretation is something that primarily happens on paper. I wonder if this assumption limits our ability to analyze Bonhoeffer as a reader of the Bible. This book, the first installment in T&T Clark’s series “New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics,” will be of special interest to scholars seeking a more textured understanding of Bonhoeffer’s thinking and to those interested in the theological interpretation of Scripture. In order to do justice to the gritty details of Bonhoeffer’s exegesis, Ross frequently quotes large chunks of German text, which he translates himself. The strength of this approach is that it gets us deep into the details of Bonhoeffer’s interpretive habits. The potential drawback is that the prose at times feels tedious. Ross is aware of this. In this book he is quite literally doing exegesis of Bonhoeffer’s exegesis, a close reading of his close reading. This gives the book a more workmanlike feel than one concerned with grand theories and unifying ideas. This book lives not in the clouds but on the ground. Those interested in Bonhoeffer’s theology should consider this a virtue.","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"352 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49269634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Resurrected to Eternal Life: On Dying and Rising by Jürgen Moltmann","authors":"C. Clifton Black","doi":"10.1177/00405736221108541e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221108541e","url":null,"abstract":"is a technique advertisers use to enhance the effectiveness of the AIDA process. Storytelling enables listeners to embed themselves in the story and identify with the characters and the plot. “The more experientially engaged persons are with the story and its message, the more motivated they are to continue to process information” (87). At the end of this chapter, Allen and La Ferle offer an engaging example of a single-story sermon (98ff.). The problem they do not acknowledge is that creating a single-story sermon is extremely difficult and time consuming for preachers in the trenches of ministry. The final chapter is entitled, “Advertising Campaigns and Cumulative Preaching.” Advertisers use campaigns to market their products over a period of months and sometimes years. Allen and La Ferle apply this technique to the task of preaching. Seldom does one sermon change lives or the character of a congregation. It is the cumulative effect of preaching over months and years that initiates change. Cumulative preaching is about “effective frequency” (127). Still, the writers caution, repetition is important but too much repetition and the congregation can feel beat up. The homiletic strategies described in this book continue to build on some of the basic principles established by the New Homiletic movement of the 1970s and 1980s but in a fresh and “recalibrated” way. The book emphasizes the importance of experience, emotion, narrative, dissonance, listeners as co-creators, and a focus on action that is God’s action. Sermons are offered along the way (toward the end of chapters 3, 4, and 5) that effectively and creatively demonstrate principles discussed. All through the book, examples of specific commercials are shared to demonstrate a particular principle or strategy at work. The examples are titillating and engaging, taking the reader behind the scenes of the inner working of a commercial. Serendipitously, the examples have caused me to watch commercials more critically with an eye toward spotting the techniques used. My initial reaction to seeing the title of this book was anything but positive. I viewed it as another way of compromising the Christian message to make it more palatable. However, in the opening chapter, the authors reasonably address my concerns about interfacing a most secular discipline that is completely devoted to seeking the attention of consumers with the countercultural message of Christianity. Allen and La Ferle take the best practices in advertising and adapt them to enhancing the best practices in preaching.","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"358 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45403156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Priorities, Power, and Pilgrimage: Beyond Comfortable, toward the Beloved Community","authors":"Kermit Moss","doi":"10.1177/00405736221118650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221118650","url":null,"abstract":"The hope for racial reconciliation among participants in the Missing Voices Project can be categorized as implicit as racial reconciliation is not an oft-used term among participants. The importance of racial reconciliation among participants is often inferred, implied, and understood but may not be stated as an explicit goal by adults or youth. This tendency might be the result of a level of discomfort talking about racism or a lack of theological language pertaining to racial reconciliation. Put simply, priorities are a matter of importance and our actions or silence about things that matter reflect our priorities. For example, regarding the importance of inclusivity, one participant remarked, “Jesus would want us to do it despite discomfort, and despite the barriers, and despite all the extra work.” However, inclusivity is not the same as racial reconciliation, nor is access and acceptance the same as acknowledgment of racism, addressing injustice, and actions toward healing and building community. Racial reconciliation is a prioritized prerogative linked to a person’s social location, material reality, primary identities, theological imperatives, and perspectives regarding what matters most in particular contexts. Hence, racial reconciliation can matter less in areas plagued with poverty and hardship where surviving to next week is more important. Racial reconciliation may also be deemed secondary to other prerogatives in communities where the “other” is simply not present or fewer in numbers due to histories of racial and income segregation. To illustrate, one young person in the Missing Voices Project shared, “My church is on 210. It’s in the nice, like, white neighborhoods that are, that don’t have to deal with a lot ... I also see ... that we separate ourselves from the problem but, like,","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"317 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47822329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Invitation to and from the “Missing Voices” in Congregations","authors":"S. Farmer","doi":"10.1177/00405736221125472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221125472","url":null,"abstract":"This article invites congregations to rethink their approach to young people who have been marginalized by the church. It explores ways young people can feel seen, heard, and valued within congregations. Rather than condemning the church for what it is NOT doing, this article is an invitation to both the youth who are missing from the church and church to view each other differently.","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"333 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44412651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who Is My Mother? (This Is My Family, Broken for You)","authors":"Megan DeWald","doi":"10.1177/00405736221112008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221112008","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores emerging research in youth ministry that finds mothers to be some of the most vocal and active advocates of young people who identify as LGBTQ. Drawing a link between mothers who have been at the forefront of other social movements and these present-day advocates, this article urges caution in the celebration of this finding, noting how the church's uncritical adoption of the cult of motherhood has led to the further entrenchment of patriarchal systems of power. Instead, the author suggests that a queer interpretation of Jesus’ reimagination of family in various gospel texts might serve as more faithful and liberating foundations for ministry with LGBTQ youth.","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"287 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44836703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Youth as Ministers: Fish Sandwiches and the Prophetic Ministry of Young People in the Missing Voices Project","authors":"Justin B. Forbes","doi":"10.1177/00405736221112011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221112011","url":null,"abstract":"Leaning on the missional theology of Karl Barth, this article explores the theme of young people using their voice and agency in various congregations across Florida. These ministry contexts are focused on creating new expressions of youth ministry that take seriously the voices and experiences of young people in the queer community, with various intellectual disabilities, and from within the experience of foster care. The witness of these young people gave rise to hope that congregations might be shaped by their voices and be open to being formed by their very presence. Barth gives language to their experiences as an example of being a witness, prophetic even, within these congregational settings. With a heavy emphasis on the voices of young people themselves, this article explores the possibility of congregational systems being open to God's leading through teenagers.","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"308 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42358157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When the Margins Talk Back","authors":"Erin Raffety","doi":"10.1177/00405736221114825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221114825","url":null,"abstract":"Communication theory reminds us that listening is always interrogative, relational, and never without politics. The articles in this collection are the first attempt to witness as listeners to what young people have shared in this research, amplifying a “youth ecclesiology” (Benjamin Conner), the prophetic ministry of young people (Justin Forbes), the importance of aesthetics in confronting dehumanization (Katherine Douglass), the disruptive call of listening itself (Michael Mather), the persistent gaps in theologizing racial reconciliation (Kermit Moss), and the provocative love of Jesus (Megan DeWald). To this witness, I further probe how it is that marginal agitation can be found deeply faithful, draw out its theological contributions, and attempt to behold, yet not coopt, that radical openness that both Peter and Paul reveal to us as so slippery, subversive, and decentering. In other words, it is critical that theologians and congregations at the center not so much “let” the margins push back, because that fetishizes them, all the while subtly maintaining the center, but adopt the confessional mode that Conner, DeWald, Douglass, Forbes, Mather, and Moss lay out, while also witnessing to a Jesus, a God, and a Spirit that prod and agitate and transgress, because this God is at the margins, too.","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"79 1","pages":"342 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45562905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}