Theologian Miroslav Volf, who participated in the Emergent Village theological conversation earlier this year, has written—along with contributions from five colleagues at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture—an article for Christianity Today’s “Christian Vision Project” on “The Church’s Greatest Malfunctions.” In it, Volf writes, “We Christians should be our own most rigorous critics—and be that precisely out of a deep sense of the beauty and goodness of our faith. Then we can begin to think of faith neither as simply a system of propositions to be believed, nor as merely a set of energizing and healing techniques to be practiced, but as an integral way of life.”
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.
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Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.